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The same way the police in the US said it wasn't terrorism when that Egyptian opened fire at the El AL terminal in the airport around July 4 last year. They said it wasn't terrorism, then eventually decided it probably was. To avoid panic and making themselves look bad they rule out...

My bad I just figured out I needed to enter it as a combo order not a FutSpd order in TWS, then I could have done it. No pain, no gain.....

I agree -- yet here I am :eek: Seriously I've been trading futures since April full-time but I've never had a position on rollover date before....just random I guess. I use IB which for ER2 and EMD is giving me a not allowed error on the futures spread, but I'm sure I have full trading...

The fills will be 5 points apart but theoretically at least I won't lose money on the rollover (other than commissions).

I found my automated trading system short this morning and I want to roll over to the next expiration (ER2 and EMD). To do it I set market orders to buy (to cover) the december contract and short the march contract with a good after time of 9:30 AM (EST). Theoretically at least I should get a...

Murray -- Are we talking about trading with our own money or with your money? I don't care what I trade if it's your money :D :D :D

I heard 8.2 will have an option to turn on/off tradestation's code theft :D

There's a difference between "anybody" and a company that makes a living off allowing people to run autotrading systems. All it would take would be one disgruntled employee to reveal TS was stealing systems and they'd be out of business...it's just not worth the risk given that most of the...

Systems do work on the client side, unless you buy into the conspiracy theory that TS is stealing your system. A way around what? There are companies that will host your system for you... SSB

Try plugging some candlestick patterns into Tradestation, Wealthlab, etc. Watch them lose money. If it was really such a worthy trading vehicle, why is Mr. Nison selling books and seminars? Why isn't he trading them and keeping them to himself? SSB

Next month they will be adding the "bad tick" fee -- every time they send a bad tick via their data feed they'll charge you $1. Thank goodness QCharts doesn't have the bad tick fee or I'd go broke....

Run this as a strategy it will generate an ASCII text file: FileAppend("c:\TSData\" + GetSymbolName + "-" + NumToStr(BarInterval,0) + ".dat", NumToStr(Month(Date),0) + "/" + NumToStr(DayOfMonth(Date), 0) + "/" + NumToStr(1900+Year(Date), 0) + "," + NumToStr(Time, 0) + "," +...

Just change the parameters until they accept it.......assuming if you lose all your money you're not going to sue them. SSB

Thanks Steve. I know everyone must say this, but if you could find a way to add pit trading many of us would try to make it worth it for you :cool:

This ROCKS!!! Now I can simulate losing money before I do it :D In all seriousness, this is awesome if you guys can get it working.

On IB's list of futures on eCBOT corn (symbol ZC) is only listed as an index, but in TWS I can get quotes as a future. I tried to enter a limit buy order but it didn't go live, it stayed pending. Are these contracts tradeable with IB? Has anyone done it? SSB

Read the fine print.....if it sounds too good to be true it probably is. Also explore the tax consequences -- if you do well do they take half the profits but do you somehow end up paying tax on all the profits? SSB

Check out Robert Green, http://www.greencompany.com/. I'm thinking about using him, I asked and nobody complained about him, although I did hear he's on the conservative side (in terms of disallowing questionable deductions) but that's fine with me. SSB

What is the issue you have with updatePortfolio? I've had this issue in TWS itself (not the API) where it doesn't show all my positions in the accounts page. It's intermittent -- usually it works OK. If I right-click on a security and pick positions that appears correctly. I wonder if it's...

Thanks hoi!