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If your system does not work in volatile days your system is weak, obviously. I threw away a dozen system as such. It is easy to get a system that works in only certain types of days. You need a better system that can handle "normal" days and volatile days. Consider isolating a core system...

and multiple time frames => MACD. All of which is derived from price over time. So just learn price action

I use IB paper account for ES. Last time I used TS it has LMT "magic fills": Buy at Bid and Sell at Ask instantly. IB has "top of book" Buy at ask and Sell at Bid. This is much more realistic. Sounds like TS has not put any effort into their Demo account. So several ways to work it. 1)...

So the answer is NO. Thread is done for now

Me too. But as a friend found out, once his phone was broken for 36 hours he was completely locked out.

You need to do through the tutorials for TWS. These questions are all answered there. Yes of course you can. They do work. The software is not simple to use and it takes time to learn it. Look at preset setting and learn how they work....

Trading from my Mega Yacht in the north Hawaiian islands? No. Haha. Seattle has good fiber, gigabit for 80/mo. Agree no real need there. But in the San Juan Islands, cell connection is cheaper, more reliable and about 10x faster, than hardline. But trading on a single connection with no...

You have to have the right window active, usually a chart or a quote monitor.

Yep, and the first deployments are covering the Chicago-NY route. Speed of light in a vacuum is better than through glass and has no twists or turns. I am interested in the ping to IB because the earth base station could be very close to the servers at the broker-exchanges. So theoretically, I...

Not looking for a speed improvement, per se, but more about reliability. The speed would just be a bonus. Here is Seattle area StarLink is reporting 16ms latency. Better than the 40ms. Also interested in the actual ping to Central IB servers, which for me is about 125ms. But it is very...

Um, they work just fine. But they are not literal and universally all the same. Try looking at them with an dynamic offset based on the market action..

Put it up on something like C2 (Collective 2) where you cannot fudge the numbers, then people might take it more seriously. No offense intended, but posting on a web site is not credible. If your record is truly awesome, it will show. Otherwise people will continue to have doubts.

I am not sure you do "get it". No offense intended. The point is not only do the amounts you set need to be tested for your tactics, the execution of the stop needs to be verified. Not all stops work the same way and the same under different instruments or conditions. This is the type...

No Problem. Use the hot key "increase" or "decrease" the price by ticks. Select the order you want to change and press the key, one time or multiple times. You can setup multiple keys for different increments. It can be instantaneous or parked awaiting a "transmit" aka "update". I do it...

I would have to say, not knowing "you have missing pieces" is the most common issue here on ET with the new traders. Second is not knowing how to fit pieces together and an endless search for more pieces.

Lind is correct. If I could have done 20 years of testing all over again, I would have made paper my main mode or Micro equivalent, and only on occasion gone live or full scale, to test the additional stress. Since you are in academia, you can understand what sample size you need to test to...

If you are looking for hard and fast general rules applied to specific situations, volumes, price action, volatility, instruments, it does not work that way. That says nothing of the tactics you are using, and how they fit into it. There are a lot of ways to "slice a chicken". What you do...

One thing to consider, is: Go to paper, Trade and get into the same situation. Then deal with it properly. Repeat. That would constitute good trading on paper. The solution is not to run scared. Often people take a proper risk and take a hit, but then they compound it. You still need to take...

On one hand, when there is a lot of low quality data, constantly changing such that acting upon it is very hard to do manually. All this makes it pretty much useless (non actionable). On the other hand, if the market is slow and you actually NEED depth because of size, then it might help...

Hi Tango, I got a 34 Dell. I would recommend doing the 38" get 1600 x 38xx. That extra 15% will be useful for not that much more space.