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Hitman. do your and other firms trade between Christmas and New Year? It was my best week of the year last year and seemed almost easy. I couldn't decide whether it was due to the pros being absent or lots of inexperienced traders trying their hand over the Christmas break or some of each. Did...

"However, if you were paying me money for some sort of stock picking service and you demanded to see my own trading records, you better believe that I would have no problem providing you with them. " Thank you, I think the above responds adequately to my enquiry.

Tony Oz Thank you for your measured response to my comments. First on the subject of vendor use and abuse of this bulletin board, I hope you saw my comments on this subject on Page 32 of the Trading Methods and Techniques thread, particularly the last paragraph. My problems in this regard...

I really would suggest that any Canadians that care about this issue email their provincial securities commission, tell them that you know IB is in the registration process and ask what is taking so long. A phone call to your local provincial representative complaining about restricted access...

Not really, because the bottom of the scale is not zero dollars. I wish it were as then my percentage return would be much bigger. The drawdown between Feb and March was about 10%. The biggest problem was the frustration of going nowhere for three months. This was the result of a deliberate...

"I think the most important trendline is your equity curve. If it's going up then your method is correct. " See the picture. Sorry it's fuzzy, but it's just a webcam picture off the wall. Doesn't really prove anything yet but if I get a third year with similar results I just might think I...

Jeffo, Here's the chart I am talking about. To me (and perhaps only me) it does not seem reasonable to connect tops at 120 and 104 (the equivalents of the ones you and Chartwiz used on the COMP) which both took place over a year ago to define the weekly trend when the stock is at 40. To...

I believe TheOilySnake has adequately addressed the Log vs Linear issue. Perhaps you should resolve your differences with Linda before taking them up with an amateur. There are many other who think the same as her. I know I started using log scales after reading Edwards and Magee, but I don't...

Trends, like beauty are in the eye of the beholder. To clarify my view, when trading say the 30-min bars, I believe it is useful to look at the most recent trend behaviour of the daily. From my perspective the daily QQQ has been in a short-term downtrend since peaking on Dec 6. Therefore in...

OK by me too.

I'd settle for a VBA script that would allow me to import the trades from my IB monthly report into Excel and match them up to produce a profit and loss statement Quite frankly TC2000 does almost everything I need to scan for the swing-trade setups I like. I particularly like the fact that I...

"Let's see, he's an established successful trader ........" Say's who? In the absence of proof he could just as well be a very marginal of even unsuccessful trader who has turned to running a chatroom as a means of making a living and capitalizing on his connections. I don't know one way or...

Just a further comment. Rather than a two monitor setup I prefer to use two computers networked with internet connection sharing, which is a standard feature of Windows 98. Don't know if this is still available on Windows XP. If it is, would someone tell me, I might upgrade. Networking just...

Most computer users don't require two monitors on one computer, so why would the maufacturers build in that capability at extra cost for all? Traders are a very small minority of computer users. As others have explained, there is no need to spend $400 for this capability. Just get another...

Why do you do covered calls rather than just writing naked puts?

Only an opinion, I'm not in the business. Specialists and market makers do make their money on the spread. They make more money on the spread when volumes are high in the security they trade. Therefore I believe they will take directional positions to move the market out of low activity...

It seems AA.... and I think alike regarding trends. Regarding the original question. I did bit of work last year on trading the an index product simply using adjacent 30 minute bars for signals. Very roughly, 1. Enter in the first 30 mins when the range of the last 30 mins of the...

I believe the primary trend is defined by the timescale immediately higher than the timescale on which you are taking the signals you use to try to profit. You may define the trend on that timescale in a variety of ways, trendline, moving average, MACD etc. Taking QQQ as a current example, if...

Does more for me than Chartwiz's dog pictures, but I think both are inappropriate because they are off topic. Let's keep the discussion as tight as possible without extraneous chit-chat.

I got booted from the e-Options Yahoo discussion group for pointing out that it was garbage. It's just an example of what's out there. For anyone wanting to continue the work, here's the link. http://clubs.yahoo.com/clubs/eomplus