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Ah, but you see, the difference between gambling and speculating is the difference in expectancy of luck and success, 49% vs 51%. So a daytrader might very well be a speculator. It is fairly easy to pull in a 60% win/loss ratio but maybe it is the risk/return ratio which separates the...

java 1.5.0_11 TWS 867.4 no market depth or cumulative bids/asks on eminis anymore ?? Thx

Anyone notice how the cumulative bid and ask size for eminis in booktrader is not displayed anymore (- just a few hundred contracts)? Was this just today in the new (TWS 867 I think).

Probably any real charting program will have had problems unless it was one of those which costs on the thousands per month. However, even if TS charts freeze, their matrix will probably work as well as IBs. This was my experience anyways. I trade on IB on a separate computer but use Esignal...

I am perfectly happy with IB's Booktrader. I don't know why people don't mention it more often. I have one laptop dedicated to it. The F-buttons are programmed for instant execution, for various trading scenarios. E.g. 2 buttons are just plain buy and sell order at market, one is a buy at...

I am a daytrader but trade only on certain days. I will always be in cash at the end of the day. I did not trade today. Therefore, no gain and no loss. However, tomorrow is one of my trading days. I am a little scared but my plan calls for it - so I'll go for it. I do know what the maximum loss...

Well, it was not possible for the longest time and as someone pointed out, no updates were given. The Booktrader webinar on IB's website is not very good. I am glad to hear though that this should be working now. Thanks.

May I add: Ability to DRAG an order to a new level. If upgrades are done: configurations of booktrader should not be wiped out.

OK, here an update. I have been using datatg.com (Disclaimer, I am not affiliated with them, I just really got to like that service). Once it is setup on the cellphone, I don't even have to login anymore. Just connect via the cellphone, in my favorites folder are the few symbols I am interested...

I have been looking for the same for some time now. Thanks for all the links. www.datatg.com is very nice. Of course, if you have Tradestation, you could just keep it on all day and have it send you alerts as the day progresses.

I track every single trade in an Excel spreadsheet and make charts with it. I can tell fairly quickly when a strategy is failing and stop trading it. If I make a profit, I take out 25% of it. The 75% pays for my loosers. That way, me being a beginning and lousy trader, I still have something to...

Linda works for me. I have posted my feedback on her stuff somewhere else on elitetrader. I did her $3k seminar, and spent my share of tuition money on the chatroom. The chatroom is educational, very educational but eventually I had to move away from it. I now trade on my own (her method)...

I am having a hard time to find a good software as I am on a satellite internet connection. I trade futures from out in the sticks, and I would like to look at international futures as well (German Schatz, Singapore). My current setup works fairly well. I use Tradestation as my main datafeed...

Well, I upgraded and then downgraded again because some of my booktrader functions didn't work right anymore. But tech support was real good helping me to find the file restore file.

I can see your point, but I remember when I had a managed futures account, those guys probably figured that a stop had too much slippage as well and ran a $100 premium on future option into a approx. $20,000 loss per contract. If slippage is part of the game, fine, but one has to be nuts to...

OK thought about posting my experience with LBR (Linda Raschke) and a little background to my own development. I drifted around unprofitably for quite a while (i.e. years), studying everything under the sun and really trying to work Woodie's CCI system. I think I hung in there (with Woodies...

ktm - I think a conditional order is basically the same. I can't think of which data to base an agricultural future on though - let's say Corn. But I haven't had time to think about it too much yet. I usually daytrade the ES. and switch to SPY on higher time frames. I have traded the SPY...

I am subscriber to a specific educational service. Those guys are always testing and researching whatever comes up, patterns, trading techniques, technology. A few weeks ago I heard that RJ OBrien has an electronic order entry platform which they have been testing for a few weeks now. They have...

This is a whole new world .... Ecbot provides stops and all - but it only trades when the pits are closed. I just had a cursory glance at it last night. Cbot (pits) really only has market and limit orders. Amazing they get away with it. Or maybe I am just a spoiled example of the...

ktm - thanks. I use conditional orders for other stuff on IB - and it works great. I will see what I can come up with .....