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I greatly appreciate your answer. The conclusion (as FX-Trader said) seems to be that i can't see every trade even with a good data vendor. As I use my own app for charting/trading (based on IB's API & quotes) and have been trading succesfully with it for a while now, I don't see any...

Don't be too naive to think that your software will give you THE edge. May be it will give you some advantages on "slower" traders but for sure that won't be your final edge. The edge is not either in a possible "perfect moving average". The edge is (in) you. I've been where you actually...

Thank you both for your answers. Saschabr, I hope that you're wrong when you say that IB matched against me. They don't have to. I'm supposed to have a direct access to EUREX. What i experienced before is some stops being touched without seeing the price in TWS quotes. I didn't care too...

First I must say that I'm a very happy IB customer. I've been trading with IB for about a year and had no problem. I just want to have get some informations about the following problem : In the T&S, I can't see a trade that I made this morning . Here is my execution report : FESX SEP...

Here is a post I made a few days ago about this topic : http://www.elitetrader.com/vb/showthread.php?s=&postid=112493#post112493 Hope it helps.

About esignal, my experience is that their T&S for ESTX50 is not better than IB. As I only use quotes and price/volume for charts I don't care too much about the usability of the software. You said that Tenfore data feed is good. That's just enough for me. Thank you for the informations.

Thank you for your complete and helpful answer. These missing ticks annoys me when they blew my hard stops and i can't see them. I'm pretty sure that i could learn to place my stops at a better price if I i could see everything. Actually, I'm still waiting for my login details with...

On my experience, the main difference between paper and real trading (except slippage due to execution or hesitation) is this one : When you paper trade you don't hesitate to let your trade go. When you're in for real you take your profit sooner because you want to be right and have some $$...

Yes, I use IB. I'm happy with them. Fast and simple. I developed my own interface with their API.

I can't tell about Globex. I trade ESTX50 on Eurex. It has very good liquidity as ES/NQ. I wouldn't say i've got no slippage but I don't have too much. The slippage I talked about was due to the time delay "screen-brain-keyboard-internet-exchange" when i used mental stops. Let's say I want...

Yes, I only trade the opening. I tried the afternoon too but was less succesfull doing it (I think that’s because I didn’t trade it enough). I haven’t any target in points. I exit upon holding time. I try to be in the trade 2’00 at least but can stay longer on my discretion if the...

Great post. I couldn't have said it better. I trade estx50 future at the opening this way. I agree. It works.

Your trading just rocks ! I trade ESTX50 future at the opening and have a similar strategy than yours. To adjust my daily stop loss, I looked at my numbers (>300 trades). I found that it was better (for me) to take every trade (with a maximum of 5) than to have an arbitrary stop loss. My...

Thank you for answering. I asked you this because I used to have such a plan but I failed to keep my % high enough. I came back to a more "classic" plan : % = 50 and P/L ratio >2. No plan is better than another. Find those that works (for U) :p

Congrats for this 9 consecutive positive days ! If you don't mind, i've got a question about your stop. You have a "small winner/high %" strategy. However, I noticed that you took some (rare) losses >0.75. How far do you let you trade going to the loss side ? Do you try to keep your...

Quiet1 is right. Esignal provide only DAILY volume data (not intraday) for european data. I read this in the European Data FAQ a few weeks ago and that's what i saw when i tried it.

That was exactly my point. I'm still looking after the data supply that suits me. In the next few days, I'll give a try to www.tenfore.com

Stevet, I totally agree with you. As a very short term trader, i'm very concerned about these missing ticks. The problem is that i haven't found yet a good data feed at a good price. Do you have some suggestions ? The offer is not so big.

First : thanks to TrendFader for starting this thread about ESTX50. In fact, I would like to know what data I'm missing with IB quotes. I've got a pretty good idea from experience but really ? On one side, I'm pretty sure IB is snapshot because sometimes my trade don't appear in TWS "times...