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Good day here, but not nearly as good as last week. This will be my last blotter for a while, as I go back into stealth blotter mode. :-)

I've read some good posts already on this thread, and I hope it's okay if I post a few of my thoughts. What is the purpose of the blotter thread? What is it's value? As I recall, in the initial months after creation, it was (and likely continues to be) the most popular and actively read...

Not as good as yesterday, but another excellent trading day. +93 on the day +264 on the week Viva la Volatility!! Congrats to Corey, Dustin, Shreddog, Patrick and the rest that had record or near record this week. It was a record week for me.

Excellent, Shreddog!!! I'm the same way, not posting here for a long time, but wanting to share the results of a few of these excellent trading days (I'll post today's blotter after the close). I hope this fantastic volatility continues. A trader's dream...

Crazy day here. An all-time personal best as well.

Laser rock solid from what I see today. Their ARCA route was down for about 5 min premarket, about 30 min before the open, but came back online well before the start of trading. That's the only 'issue' I've seen with Laser today.

Hey, good news. Looks like the blotter website is back up and operational this evening.

Yes, good question. I have no idea what is going on with that, and it is a nuisance. It's not a huge deal for me, since the IC website is working fine. But, just like you, I'd like to see the old blotter site fixed ASAP. In light of the recent market volatility, I'm glad they apparently...

Thanks, Genesis! Many, many brokers have been struggling with the recent market volatility and increased messaging traffic. I know that Genesis had lag issues on their NYSE data for a while after the Fed report a few days ago, and that's been a huge concern for me, since the best trading...

Agreed. This has been my best time period since then, and I have made well over what the OP suggested.

You might want to have him prove that he can make a profit with his own 50k, before you pay him 5k to 'teach' you. I'd be surprised if he's made any real money trading in the past 5+ years. Not someone that I'd suggest you 'learn' from.

If you are looking for a method to tell you in advance which trades will be profitable or losing, with 100% accuracy, then I wish you good luck. Unfortunately, that sort of thing does not exist. Until it does, the best we can do, IMO, is to develop a rigid, systematic and logical approach...

Michael, I'm currently running 4-6 systems on ~500 markets total. Note: One market = one stock, one futures contract or one options contract, etc. -Eric

When the out of sample results look bad, you have now had the benefit of discovering this important fact with paper trading, and not with real money, avoiding potentially substantial losses as a result. Granted, you go back to the drawing board in trying to develop a good system, but at least...

Unfortunately, there is no 'best' number. You have to pick a number by making a balance judgment. You are balancing the increased accuracy of a larger number, with the increased 'response time' of a smaller number (i.e. when you use a relatively smaller number, your confidence value will more...

That site provides a random equity curve to be expected for a system with your input system stats. Every time you rechart a new equity curve, it will be slightly different, based upon normal random variation that is to be expected for any system. The point of the site is to give you a rough...

Daytrading, <4 hour hold times, but will carry overnights, as well.

Well, you do have a bit of a point, there. I use Laser daily, for monitoring, but I place 99.9% of my trades using the API. However, reading back through this thread, I see positive comments from LaserScalper (only been on ET a month, and 5 posts, so maybe suspect), kidkash (4 months on...

Excellent month, Corey. Congrats!

Looks like you need to read what you said, not me. I quoted what you said, word for word, in my post. To refresh your memory, you said "i have used this software for a few years now. it does not work properly period." (Note: The shift key can be used for capitalization, when desired)...