Nothing publically revealed is worth squat as the trade gets crowded and/or the other side gets smarter.
Now that's talking about technique . There are some traders on the various boards that reliably post winning ideas. But they are few and far between and finding them is like finding this.
There's really no such thing as a 'trading computer'
Get at least a quad core, and a decent video card. No need to pay big money.
I'm still using a 5 year old box that handles EVERYTHING I throw at it.
Very old school. Of course you're using the clients money to make his earlier bad fills look good. Sort of a double insult.
Doubt many are fooled by this ancient method in 2016.
I saw the issue today. Normally IB data is 100% reliable.
The bid/ask on the CL contract seemed ok, as was T&S, but the LAST PRCE was stuck for almost 15 minutes.
Not sure what the deal was here, but it's quite rare.