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If you lost that much you must be holding some trades till they turn into big losers. Hopefully you kept fairly detailed trade notes...go back and review these trades. Either your trading rules are bad or you dont follow them. A plan with strict dicipline is needed. Know that even if you start...

I bet if they had 50% less customers tomorrow they might get their act together. Its been a year since their service really deteriorated and despite promises its the same old deal. Even without this opens have been slow and closes too. I got to get an alternative.

What backtesting software are you using?:confused:

yahoo messenger bus and finance user rooms

I had problems with it locking up while doing the same thing so I downloaded the beta form of messenger and it works ok. Try that.

Voodoo That was actually plan b after the yahoo site got flakey, but a few others had trouble with mIRC and since everyone was setup and registered for yahoo it was just easier to go with yahoo messenger. But I agree mIRC is super smooth and trouble free. I did set up a mIRC room and only P2...

Due to software problems with the browser version we have moved to yahoo messenger. Its available at http://messenger.yahoo.com/ once its installed and on line hit chat button and look for the elitetrading room in business and finance, under the user rooms tab. All welcome. The other room...

I have been using Preferred Trade for about 18 months. I found their name at the EliteTrader site and they seemed like a huge improvement over NDB which I had been using. Most of my trades are single day or multi day swing trades, I do about 12 rt per week. For data I use Quote.com which is...

I am lost but from reading the the topic here is what I say. You pay taxes on your net for the year. The 3k is what you are allowed to apply from last years losses to this year. EX; say last year you lost 30k, that was your net for schedule d and you never traded before. You can write off...

Is anyone here familiar with using TS4 and some type of feeder program with the Quote.com datafeed. I have had TS4 for several years but over the last 3 have used it only for daily data but I would like to use on intraday. Thanks

I was wondering how those that more or less swing trade use trailing stops(ts). I have found that over the last 5 or 6 months my opportunities to use a ts have been very few. There has been so much volitility in price movement that many times I look at where I would place my ts and figure that...

The hardest part is ....if you quickly get that .05 profit do you take it or are you going to try for .10 and then if it quickly goes to a .05 loss are you going to take it, well gee it may actually go up in 2 seconds and you will have a profit...but wait now you are losing .15, but wait it...

For your trading I am sure you have a plan, entry criteria that you use for your trade decisions. When you enter a trade do you quickly review that the trade fits with your rules? Is it high probability or low, is there decent risk or too much? These are the things you must look at unless your...

From what I have read the 4 to 1 margin will only apply to daytrades, in and out same day, but if you hold till next day it is 2 to 1 margin. All I know its going to be a mess since every time I read it there is something I am just not sure of due to the wording. Side note, I was looking at...

Post a system report. Did you optimize any variables? This can be useful but will curve fit your system results. How is your p/l distributed over your trades, if you have only a few trades that account for a majority of the profit that is bad. Are you using TS coded or built in stops...

Though I can easily see it, last month I started running a 21 day average of the daily trading range( atr) for all of the stocks I watch. About 18 months ago as prices fell the ATR's began to fall, another way to look at it is as prices got lower the ranges reduced which is expected, but even...

I have an unfunded acct I opened last month at IB. From reading the few posts about IB stops, I do not feel confident in their stop execution and have no urge to trade there. If you cant rely on your broker to execute your stop orders the way they say it will be executed, then its really mostly...

How many here look at the number of trades they do weekly as sort of a measure of how eager you may be to jump in a trade or maybe you are not noticing as many opportunities? Just as a type of regular self evaluation. I have noticed over the last 2 years that I usually enter a certain...

At time of expiry the sept ct will have lost all its premium and be close to the spx index, and the dec will be full of premium and its price will reflect the spx plus 3 months premium.

I have generally noticed in past years that the pit traded SP volume would change mid morning on thursday. The term for the lead month is the Front Month and also an older term called the top step contract as traders in the pit would occupy the top steps of the pit for best visibility. Just...