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Did anyone notice this too? Guy stepped up with 100K shares from 10.00 to 14.00 and nobody filled him, he just ended up cancelling. It happened after 9:30 but I'm not sure if it happened before or after the stock opened. If it happened after the stock opened, wouldn't an LRP prevent this from...

you know god is going to close it at 1252.25

paper called "Re-examining the Hidden Costs of the Stop-Loss"

lol @ this thread i love traders that always look to blame someone else for their failures yes... it's never your fault.....

I had a problem similar to this during the winter (I slept with my window slightly open). Reason being was that my CPU fan had a temperature monitor inside the CPU cooler and whenever the case had a low temp, the CPU fan would also have a low RPM. So when it initially boots up the CPU fan RPM...

This is a bad drive. I had a 500 gb one and the first time I ran it it emitted these really loud clicking noises. I read some reviews and found out a lot of people are having trouble with these drives (ie. dying after weeks or months). Returned it in a flash.

For my strategies that aren't meant to last seconds or minutes, I always market in or do a limit cross when price gets to me. Edge is big enough that I don't care about losing the spread.

I use synergy to control both my computers with 1 mouse and keyboard and it's a great little program (you can even transfer a clipboard of text to the other). I've never tried more than 2 mice/keyboards to one computer, but the way it would have to work is you'd run multiple clients on the main...

Hmm, interesting. I actually had success with it (black-boxed) so I thought others would have too so this comes to me as a surprise. It was my first time playing a rebalance so I wasn't exactly sure what to expect besides massive imbalances. I wish I didn't play it as safe as I did! Can't wait...

I wish ET had an option for "Ignore any thread that relates to Timothy Sykes"

ya, people are targeting you when you do 0.01% of the daily volume. get real

I cancel orders after 9:30 without any problems (cause I set it up so 'if max orders hit' -> cancel remaining). It's my understanding that you can cancel up until the moment of the opening print.

no fees and commission? that's only .0035 per share gross. you say its net, but how do you buy and sell 10,000 shares and have a net of 0 dollars.

That's my experience too. I'd rather not listen to it and just focus on my own thang.

Agreed. But it's not a system I've backtested nor can I. Reason being is that I can't include my own influence on the stocks (something so many others overlook). The edge is having the right situation + my influence. It's just something that 'makes sense' so I tested it live. Therefore, that's...

I agree. Like I said, it's still in the experimental phase. I believe scaling out is inferior as well (I don't do it in any of my other strategies). I'm just experimenting to see how far I can possibly take it and whether or not it improves the profit factor. The main reason I want to know if...

Well, I'm still working on it to find the optimal point. For the first few hundred trades I didn't scale out because I wanted to make sure the edge was there. Sure enough it was. But after reviewing the charts at the end of each day I noticed I could be making some more. I scale out depending on...

Yes, very possible. I have one strategy where I use 1:1 and I enter the stop order and limit exit order the moment I'm filled. Success rate is 80%+. But it's not quite 1:1 because there is slippage on about 50% of those orders that are stopped out. I have several hundred of these trades under my...

The most I was down was 3000 net, 1000 gross. 1000 of that was due to a system error so you could say 0 gross. When you're first learning, you need the lowest commissions possible. I stayed a 100 share piker until I found any consistency.

I know prop traders who make 6-7 figures who aim at only taking 1-2 cents. Just because you don't doesn't mean they don't exist. I run a few automated strategies and my most consistent performer is the scalping one. Trades that last 0-5 seconds taking pennies. And a couple of times a day you...