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vitally important.. learn to do both.. they're not mirror images, don't treat them as such..

One note.. I did have a bracket work mid last week. I entered on a stop limit first thing in the morning, and then my bracket stop, which was tight, go hit later in the day. It worked fine. The ones I had problems with were orders that had filled earlier in the week where I had gone in and...

I did say I'd post the resolution. Here it is via e-mail from IB. ----------------------------------------------------------- Dear Trader, Your stop order to pay 37.07 on a stop was not elected due to a technical issue. We would like to remind you that as stated in the customer...

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thanks for the feedback, cheeks. I'm a little suspect of IB's bracket orders, having just started using them. Still, there could be a dozen explanations for a stop being missed (but two of them on the same day?) I'll try to post the resolution if one is forthcoming. thanks.

Anyone have a stop problem with IB on Friday? I'm not trying to bash IB: I've got no complaints with them so far. I was just looking to see if mine was an isolated incident. Having two stop orders not fill on the same day (especially bracket order stops) is what really concerned me. I...

I'm a swing trader who can't watch the market all day. I had stop orders in on two different NYSE stocks this afternoon that should have hit. They're 'dark blue' status and using the SMART routing. I've sent IB an e-mail, following an unproductive phone call. Stocks went above my buy stop...

I did some pair testing exactly as you state above, but compiling the results proved worse than just writing an indicator to simulate the trading results (and exporting those). RinaSystems could be an excellent product for this application(never used it, though). That's a good idea...

You can setup a hypothetical ticker SPREAD., but you can't "trade it" (i.e., system test) an indicator in TS6. It is possible to create the ticker and import it into TS2000i.

You cannot "take the other side" when system testing pairs in TradeStation (TS). TS will only let you buy/sell the primary data, data1. As it stands now, you can't import a spread in either, to attempt to trade it. I tried to write a system to test each side of the pair and then mate the...

Yea, I figure IB will fix this item fairly soon. They've added a lot of new features (since I've been with them), and they eventually get things working fine. Just wanted folks reading the thread to know there is a workaround.

Place an IB limit order with bracket orders. Then go back and change the entry order to stop-limit and enter the stop price. A little hokey but seems to work.

Dell's not alone. My in-laws went down to the local Gateway store in Oct. They sold them a $1500 computer (w/o monitor) to check AOL e-mail and type up a few recipes. I found out a few weeks after the fact. I could've saved them ~$1,000 easy, but they didn't want to bother me. As with...

In response to RS7's question on how long to expect nowadays.. I started day trading stocks full-time in mid-2001 after 3 good years as an end-of-day stock swing trader. I figured if I was making decent money swing trading I could make a killing if I could increase my opportunities. Lo and...

Thanks, Babak, for the excellent post. I believe this is the first time I've ever seen/heard someone give a specific example of a 'January effect' trade. Maybe someday I can return the favor (to the board). AH

I've read through the Pairs trading thread over in Strategy Trading. That's likely where I came across the 'volume divergence' comment. I'd like to look into that next. I've traded pairs on the intraday, 1, 2, or more day timeframe basis. I would wait for a spread spike out past 2 std...

I did several days worth of pairs testing using a stock and it's corresponding ETF. I stuck to the more liquid ETF's. I tested using stocks making up a low percentage of the ETF, and then tried out a few that were the largest components. While I did find a few cases where the system worked...

First, Tradestation 6 doesn't have scanning capabilites. The pair would have to be in an open workspace, with an alert set. Practical for 50 pairs or less. TS 2000i has a workspace scanner and can scan across a large list of symbols. TS promises this scanning capability will return in V7 (don't...

On their website, http://www.tradestation.com/, over on the left is a tag "Subscriptions available for non-brokerage clients". It starts about $50 for the end of day and about $200 for the full-blown intraday, increasing with the number of markets you subscribe to. Be warned. The end of...

For a decent starter book you could try: "Technical Traders Guide to Computer Analysis of the Futures Market" by Le Beau, Lucas It's focus is futures, but the system building and testing guidance applies across markets. Also, covers basic TA concepts if I remember correctly. On the...