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Wow, Don passing didn't pop up on the first page of my search here. Sorry to hear it.

Yeah, it looks like his posts stopped here in 2012 or so. He was pretty active here back in the day, some posting, a little selling. I did go in and talk to Bright about prop trading circa 2002.

I've been away for a long time, almost 15 years. It's good to see the site still active. It looks like a few of the main old names disappeared around 2013-2014, including Don Bright and Oldtrader, for example. Anyone know what happened? Retired on a beach somewhere hopefully? -J

I had trader status 15 years ago, then went back to a normal career for the last many years. If I start trading again, part time, does this have any effect on my tax status compared to if I never did have it? Thanks, -J

Thanks for all the responses. Ramoutar, your path from day to swing is what I had in mind to wade back in. I've spent a good part of this morning looking at my old posts from 15 years ago on here. Seems like a different person. In my previous life I went from trying to look at everything, to a...

I'm not sure if this is the right forum, but here's a question. I haven't been on ET for many years. I originally quit my job to trade full time in 2001. I did the normal route - underfunded, etc. I lasted about 1.5 years before I realized a "real" job is easier. I have never quite got over the...

I hate to jump on the BS wagon here, but you have to understand this is a little tough for some of us to comprehend. A pretty good daily range in the NQ is 50 points. If you bought the top and sold the bottom, that's $1000/contract. To lose .9 mil you were trading 900 or so contracts at a...

I use one cancels all (or other) everyday on futures. In TWS page layout, check OCA group on. Then on the order line, type anything (a letter, number, whatever) into that cell before you transmit the order. Type the same thing on the order (or orders) you want cancelled if it's hit, before...

Noah- If you aren't too protective of your wealth-lab code, send me a copy. I'm no guru, but I may have a few ideas to get in earlier, and some stop ideas to play with. I'll share anything I come up with. -JPB

Tampa- Ran across an old picture of you modelling the cape and wizard's hat on your way in to trade. Might help to sell the goods.

1. real 2. random 3. real 4. real 5. real 6. random 7. random 8. real 9. real 10. random -JPB trading: 3 years part time/1+ year full time guessed just by looking at formations/candles

I wonder how many people didn't get to see this poll because of someone on their ignore list... .... :D :D :D

target 34.54 stop 34.78 In the trade so late, lousy r/r but looking for a test of support. JPB

P2- If they aren't front running your order, it could be nice. You buy a big position, they see it and and buy a bunch, pushing it up, other people see the volume and price movement and jump on, giving you liquidity to get out... Of course, this assumes you can get most of your position on...

WealthLab.

Yep, with an average profit per trade of $8, it doesn't leave much room for error. -JPB

Here's the profit curve. Oh, if real trading were only so easy.... By the way, this was on one contract only. -JPB

doesn't have to trade through.

Okay- This isn't the same exact system I was thinking of, I pulled those numbers from memory. This is one I was looking at that shows the difference pretty well. Scalp1 is the results from counting the fill only if it trades through, Scalp2 is the results from counting the fill if it hits the...

When I've been testing, I've used worst case- that is, filled on the stop if it trades there at all (if using hard stops with IB this is the case 99% of the time), and not filled on the limit entry or limit exit unless it trades through. It makes a huge difference in scalping systems. One...