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Stockvalue halving (or doubling) unexpectedly is adverse news, isn't it? Ursa..

I never understand this concept. What do you ppl do when your 'informed' buy goes against you and halves it's value. You just sit there waiting? There must be some point at which you exit too. And isn't that your stop? I don' see the problem with stops; you expect a certain behavior of your...

I'm using them all day. That's the way I enter my positions (when I want long), just like a sell-stop when I want to go short. So obvious to me, am I missing something here? Ursa..

Agreed, OP says he's able to take a 1% stoploss after open, so he should treat the open position as a new one every minute/tick/volume-bar and replace the stoploss. Ursa..

That's ok, I'm not comparing either. After your earlier remark as was forced to admit I didn't use ZT for real trading, only comparing dry-runs. I decided to fill in that omission and ran into this issue immediately. Asking you, as a user seemed to me the quickest way, but I'll check ZT's guys...

West_trader, I've been testing ZT for a bit now. Can you tell me if it's possible to use 'attached' orders in a strategy. These are available from IB and allow you to attach an exit-stop to an open-order. When the open is triggered the exit-stop is activated and waiting. I see that ZT does...

While you're at it also try http://www.buttontrader.com/ It is made for futures by real traders. You can simulate on recorded data or connect to your live-TWS/IB and use actual realtime data for simulated trading. It's free, real-account simulation needs registration. Ursa..

I agree. Maybe it needs pointed out again that IB uses data snapshots about 3 times/second. This looks like deterioration in quality compared to feeds that give all ticks, but in fact it is an advantage because you will get those snapshots at all times. You never worry about possible streamdata...

AFAIK it's a well-known issue that Esignal is more accurate, ie. gives almost all data instead of IB that gives only 3/sec snapshots. Because of that Esignal has coping problems when something happens in the markets, and IB doesn't. Maybe one could gauge the market panic by measuring the lag...

I don't see how being long makes the answers invalid. If part of the analyses suggest not being long then sell them. Being long doesn't make it harder to go short than not being long, or does it? Ursa..

Also, don't forget that when you sell or buy 3000 options someone in the market will hedge them to the equivalent of 300000 stock. This would cause some movement as well, in either direction. You're effectively setting up 3000 conversions, this in itself would not go unnoticed. And, if some...

Sorry, I hadn't noticed that possibility. I never have actually tried ZT in real trading, it was just part of the trial collection I went through. I guess I should have made that clearer. I think that ZT is a very good and serious product for the purpose it sets as its goal, being a solid...

I would say 'absolutely' but of course it is a matter of taste and demands. ZT is quite flexible and is is a way a power-version of the DOM/Booktrader enclosed with TWS. You can build flexible strategies for each instrument and click and adjust them while running the DOM. Just like TWS it uses a...

Ok, fair enough. 5P, thanks for elaborating on this, U..

Sure, that's up to you of course. It would be nice next time to hear some real issues instead of some general 'we all know that...' attitude. Hmm, yes we 'all' know that. But we don't use TWS itself of course, do we? We use a front-end like ButtonTrader of Ninja. I hardly ever see TWS, only...

Good points Hoi, exactly my thoughts. The datapath between human eyes and brains and the efficiency of the information presented is far more important than the path between human finger and exchange. Also, the ease with which one is able to change plans and adapt to the fast world is the most...

:p Exactly. I was just making a new post to stipulate that point. Ursa..

Just double-click on the line in the TWS grid, where the tickers are. Ursa..

If you have IB you can program hotkeys for your long/shorts with attached (trail)stops (and a target if you want to) to be used in the DOM/orderbook. One click will place the open order with attachments, hey presto. For more complicated scenario's you can use one of the front-ends...

I have no experience with X but I compared Ninja and ButtonTrader side by side. And I must say that Ninja is doing a better job, ie. in the marketing department, because I find BT lots and lots better and yet it has much less exposure than it deserves. I couldn't find a thing I could do with...