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I have a secret formula that gives 100% winning trades, risk free, any markets, easy to implement. A bargain, 100000$ just for you, refundable anytime if you are not satisfy, no questions ask. I used this formula for the last 20 years and I am now zillionaire. Interested?

In real life, on a stock with a 2.78-2.90 market, there is no way you'll get a fill at 2.82 with a buy mkt order. You'd be filled at 2.90 or higher. This is trading 101. I don't understand which part you don't get. Many guys here posted reply saying basically the same thing. If you can make...

With IB paper trading, your limit orders are put at the end of the queue. So basically, they provide you with the worst scenario, which is good in a sense IMO. I'd rather test a strategy on with pessimistic scenario than an optimistic one. At least if your strategy is working on that type of...

@kcgoogler You're referring to the Maldives Islands.

@warcious Ok, I was on the wrong impression that you were doing click trading (discretionary). Having a 24/7 automated strategy is indeed something else, although I'm not into that VPS trend. I'm a systematic trader and all my operations are automatic, and that allows me to trade full time...

Do you need to have your computer running when you don't trade? It is my understanding that you're a discretionary trader. So when you're trading you're in front of your PC running TWS. You open your PC, start TWS, trade, and when you're done, you close TWS and shutdown your PC. Am I missing...

-10% in one week! Unless we're not talking about the same stock (BP Prudhoe Bay Royalty Trust), I don't get the excitement. Or maybe you shorted it and want more traders to do the same.

Why do you need a fast connection if you do click trading? And why a VPS? No matter which way you go, you'll need to deal with the latency from Norway to Chicago (you -> TWS -> IB server in NY4 -> Chicago and return for the responses). You better use your personal PC with TWS and connect it to...

If you're a discretionary/point-and-click trader type, then it doesn't really matter since most if not all of the time you'll be losing will be on you manual intervention (point-and-click). Using X-Trader or any other tool. Why bothering to gain 100 ms from the latency if it takes you 2-3 secs...

Go to the casino, or enjoy a nice dinner!

Adding liquidity: when you place an order that is being booked, and trade later. Removing liquidity: when you place an order that is filled immediately. As simple as that.

To the original question of the OP, Tick Data provide their own software to manipulate their data, but it's pretty basic and the only thing you can do is to create time series of various length.

This is the way I do: Because it's the same position, the closing trade prices are averaged, keeping only one line per position in the report. The exit date/time is the time stamp of the last trade. Ex.: Open trade: 100@2010.50 (on Thu) Closing trades: 50@2011.75 (on Thu) + 50@2012.25 (on Fri)...

1.2746. The "1." part was obvious...

This notice is for Auction trade only, nothing to do with trade at the opening, unless your order was transformed into an Auction. As for your specific case, at 9 am their was only a 9 lot on the offer and you were bidding 600. Putting market order during the pre-opening is very risky and you...

When you trade instruments with low liquidity, like Canadian Options, there is nothing much you can do about it. Aside from their basic quoting obligations, MMs can do what they want. If they don't want to trade, they will post shitty markets. r.

Are you trading in the US? If so, there are 12 option Exchanges with many registered MM trading in each. Or are you referring to the NBBO? r.