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    Trading with depth of market

    Why sometimes DOM has 10 levels and then next day it will only have 1 level? Yes I know it should be according to how much volume is being traded, it is only 10 levels or one....This morning on the ES there was great volume, but only one level. watching the DOM bounce up and down and changing 1...
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    Trading with depth of market

    Does anyone use the DOM, and depth of market in their trading? example, you are in a trade and you are in an average range of 5 ticks or so ''evening markets" and you have 10 seconds left on the clock, you are long and volume is still pushing candle up with no signs of a wick on the candle, but...
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    Narrowest spread instruments for trading

    5 wins and 1 small loss tonight 10/6 on the MES. Price started flowing simi nicely around 7.00 This drag and drop order entry feature on Trading view rocks..Technology has progressed quite a bit since the 90's.. think I will practice "paper" for another week and then start stressing out next week..
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    Narrowest spread instruments for trading

    Thanks, I found what I was looking for, if you right click on the chart, it gives you a window that allows you to enter a limit order at the current price, and then you just drag the window to what ever price you want to modify the order and you get the next available fill.. way faster than the...
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    Narrowest spread instruments for trading

    Ok, above should be a picture of the tradingview order entry platform..price is trading at 8140.08 I wish to enter a limit order at that price or 1 tick worse than that. If you will look at the order menu to the right, it says 8122.65? and to the right of that it says ask 1178.. What does this...
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    Narrowest spread instruments for trading

    Thanks folks..for all the info, this is really an active forum.. so I will be using the paper platform this week using limit orders, and will stay away from the open, and go from there..I was wondering on the average, how often do you get left behind on a limit order? I guess it still depends on...
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    Narrowest spread instruments for trading

    Thanks for the replies..let me ask another one..This mornings trade looked like this.. buy 1 MES at 2922.50 and exited at 2925.75..that is 13 ticks gain supposedly ..When I pulled the trigger,price was at 2922.50 I got filled at 2925.75, that is 13 ticks away from my entry, I used a market...
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    Narrowest spread instruments for trading

    After years of just eyeballing price direction, and practicing price action coupled with volume, I am getting pretty good at calling direction. I am ready to get started real time. I have started practicing on Trading View paper Platform. Now I need some very hard to find information on the...
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    Binary option demo accounts

    Any body know of a free binary option demo trading platform that offers weekly expirations , I am tire of signing up for demo accounts only to find that the expirations are only 1 hour or less...I am not a day trader..thanks
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    Help importing data into tradestation 2000i

    I am downloading ascii end of day data from eod. data as standard csv... When I open the file there are 6 columns..... symbol..date...open...high...close...and vol....In tradestation I keep getting the error message that says (you are viewing the top of the data file,,make sure the order you...
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    Interactive Brokers binary options question

    Violations of securities laws, but perfectly legal..
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    Interactive Brokers binary options question

    Anyone trading Binary options with IB?....I searched their site and get no information about which instruments they trade....I am assuming that their commission fees on Binary options are the same as options but what about total payout etc.? Which currency pairs do they trade etc...I don't...
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    Woodies CCI

    Sorry Austin I can't answer that. As per my comment about "blink of an eye", It's obvious I was not profitable at daytrading emini contracts. Every thing happens too fast and youv'e waited all morning for the setup and bang it's gone and your worn out. However Woodie has several moderators...
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    Woodies CCI

    exactly what I am talking about. We are talking about Woodie here right? My comment about "blink of an eye decision making is to be taken with a grain of salt. The way it was meant. As far as Woodie, No one heard me say he is 100% profitable. Very seldom did I see him make a 100% day. He...
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    Woodies CCI

    I followed Woodie for over 2 years daytrading in his room. That is where I learned the ropes. It was an excellent education. I am not there all day anymore because my eyes were getting pretty bad from staring at the screen. I am end of day now and still use Woodies setups for decisions on my...
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    tws api

    Thank you, that did the trick on that. I am now getting a runtime error 450. the tsim+ instructions just say that there is some problem with the api. perhaps there is an answer to this one in the forum. There seems to be an answer to everything else! thanks John
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    tws api

    I searched for this and couldn't find it. I am trying to install the api to install tsim+ and it keeps telling me that this file c: windows\system32\olepro32.dll is busy and won't let me install. It will let me install if I click ignore but tsm+ doesn't work properly I get data from tws but...
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    stock trading on tws papertrader.

    Yes, I am convinced that it is for nothing but learning the bells and whistles. I just placed about (overexcessive)14 more setups on the platform and all of them triggered long wheather it hit my price or not. It really doesn't matter except it makes you think twice about placing realtime...
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    stop order

    People enter those type of trades all the time, thinking that price is going to float down to their entry point . But as far as getting an instant fill with a market order is unknown, since most exchanges dont except market orders, and the brokers software has to turn the limit order into a...
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