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Real-time Account Net Worth $59,657.92 Beginning Day Account Net Worth $57,523.62 Real-time Overnight Buying Power $113,398.02 Real-time Account Balance $53,760.67 Real-time Cost of Positions $5,991.32 Real-time Unrealized P/L ($94.07) Real-time Realized P/L (Today) $1,963.47 About 2/3...

I crunched some numbers today regarding the commissions I am paying ytd: SHARES - 72267 TRADES - 671 COMM - $1,626 SH/TR - 108 COMM/SH - $0.02 COMM/100sh - $2.25 $2.25 per 100 shares is more than double what I could be paying of $1 per 100 shares...

Thanks Mike805, You are absolutely right about the commissions, I could be paying less. I have looked into TradeLink before. It appears to use the alert feature in TS to send messages to TradeLink and then IB for example. I am just not sure it works in TS Radarscreen and is robust enough...

Total Net Profit $5,136.67 (Per Share) $0.07 Gross Profit $20,040.44 Gross Loss ($14,903.76) Profit Factor 1.34 Total Number of Trades 671 Percent Profitable 60.66% Winning Trades 407 Losing Trades 263 Avg. Trade Net Profit $7.66 Avg. Winning Trade $49.24 Avg. Losing Trade...

I ended the day at new m2m equity highs for the year, although today my net realized P/L was (-$30). I had banked some coin earlier in the week on the gaps down, and today closed out some losers along with several winners to basically b/e. This is often the way it plays out. I will realize...

This is my crude attempt to compare the paper trading to real time portfolio results. The peaks and troughs line up roughly, but I seem to have bigger drawdowns. In addition, paper trading made about $1000 more. I know some of this is due to slippage, and not completely following my exits. I...

Here is an open long position showing a stop placed at around 11:15am by the strat that nearly got hit today.

Pulling my “trump card” at the open helped :).

How has your pure paper trading compared to your live? In your live account you have to adjust to match your bp as well as ignore some signals because you can’t take them all. But the paper trading doesn’t have to do this. Hi DGunz, Many thanks for the thought provoking questions you...

I do not recall my system placing so many buys and sells concurrently, but that is what was happening today. A position would stop out for a small gain, opening a slot for a new entry in another position. The exits today netted me $181.68 on the day and my account net worth is at a new high for...

Just out of curiosity, I entered data into my chart going back to 11-15-2010. For the most part, it mirrors the SP, but showing more volatility. 2X leverage and being in individual equities likely accounts for this explosive nature.

I played around with Excel charts this weekend and came up with this plot of my annual return compared to the SP500. I will post these on a monthly basis, to track my performance. It is M2M, being based on my real-time account net worth. 2/18 was the recent market top, and I took some heat...

Quote from zouy2000: Hi Rol, Your system looks to me like some kind of mean reversal system and the result is simply great. However, I have two concerns, First, you seem to use 2x overnight buying power, can you handle some kind of black swan event which may be much worse than 9-11 and...

It is good to have exit rules in place ahead of time:

Stops can be useful at times:

Here are the daily returns for the past 28 trading days. The days with zeros are weekends or holidays. You can see that big down days are generally followed by big up days, which is why it is important to stay with the trade, until an exit signal is given.

Total Net Profit $4,507.33 (Per Share) $0.07 Gross Profit $18,077.38 Gross Loss ($13,570.05) Profit Factor 1.33 Total Number of Trades 587 Percent Profitable 60.65% Winning Trades 356 Losing Trades 231 Avg. Trade Net Profit $7.68 Avg. Winning Trade $50.78 Avg. Losing Trade...

Able to see gains by buying the dips in oil related and metal stocks recently:

I got into trouble at the open when a message box popped up on my TS platform that said “odd lots not allowed with this security.” Once I acknowledged the message, all the orders that had been queued executed. I then found myself with over twice the number of positions I was allowed to...

I picked up a nice indicator from the TS forums that displays earnings dates for stocks. I have it displaying the stocks I currently track. Ciena Corp is reporting before the markets open Monday. If it disappoints investors, I may look to short it, as it is currently overbought looking. STRI...