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Or you have a solid education where you know you can get a 6 digit job and have no debt. VERY VERY different risk tolerances.

I run a 2K 34" curved NEC or a Dell. Kinda works well for the longer charts context. Plus you can run the laptop, but I do not. I think you can run two at a time, but things can get fussy. A 4K is no problem and it could be one of the huge 50" if you wanted.

This is an isolated system. One of many. 12 contracts is with range of the systems designed parameters. "blowup" was loosely used wrt to W/L frequencies relative to W/L size. Sorry for the confusion.

Been running them for 10 years now for two people. I run the GTs. The GE look good on spec, but all the ports are out the sides. The Stealth look good too. Very solid build with SteelSeries keyboards. I like the Killer Doubleshot software for automatic network failure roll over too. I...

Hi Dicer, I am sure you will get a lot of comments from traders including dismissing my comments, but I would include things that are trading independent and then customize them for trading. Also those things you are listing are more like metrics or metric gathering methods. Sort of like...

There will be situations where these come into play. Check out Limits, Banding, Velocity, Protection for starters. These are for the CME, other exchanges will have equivalents. Welcome to the Futures ThunderDome. ;) Fortunately, it is not the case if you "break a deal, face the wheel"...

Better to wait. That being said, don't be surprised if some geo political event happens. Especially if things go usually* quiet, like in the westerns where all the town shop keepers vacate the main street before the gunfight. *Quiet during holidays is normal.

Hourly is too long IMO. Better is 12-24-36, 5 minute bars. Get better resolution into an hour or three of trade action. Just combine them in your mind*. But you did not say what you are looking for in the bars. *This is a very basic skill.

I think when he took the IB Financial-Objective-Risk survey, in the drop down for options he must have said something under 10 years or beginner.

Not quite as bad. And we don't have "masters" chiming in, about order "guarantees". To the OP, make sure you understand it *may* depend on the instrument, the exchange, broker, and the simulated versus native. They will differ. And for goodness sake, test it in SIM as a data point, and then...

:D Yes, I know all that. But if you look at the action in volume there is a disconnect. So the questions is something like: 2500 contacts trade on ES. XXX contracts trade on MES Both happen in the same direction and pullback. But when you look at the volume, they of course do not match...

Isn't MES the tail wagging of the ES? Is there any explicit relationship beside what they represent, that causes them to move synchronously? Just Curious.

Cool, since it is the .1% situation, a manual solution after an automatic notification, and a auto filled out order "template", seems fine too. This is "better" under the assumption, that what went "wrong" could be caused by other things going on that you don't want to code for.

Seems like it can because that is what happened. Hope it was OK for the PAIR and it balanced out. Could a Fill or Kill attribute worked on the pair? (NOT more simple, btw, MOC Pair FOK) Order execution is probably one of the least understood, practiced, and unoptimized part of retail traders'...

Nobody is saying MKT order are not filled and they can't be used, or should be or not be used. Why assume such an extreme position unless to argue? (and get Ignore listed) All MarkBrown, CESFX and others (me too) are saying it is not guaranteed. The OP assumed it was. It is not. We gave...

Rejected is great so you can move on and place other order, but sometimes it does not and limbo occurs. Of course one can try next time someone sets off a NBC device, or some thing happens in Balkans or straits of Taiwan.:D That is why they call it a "disorderly market". Thing that should...

Welcome to retirement. We all would like a 3-4% risk adjusted return. But if that were to exist, everyone would hop into it and it would drop to .5%. You did not mention critical issue: Time frame, liquidity, amount and portfolio balances. If it is a small amount you could do teaser rate...

Often. LMT just says, this price or better. What you see in a retail broker and a consumer internet connection is delayed. Timeline example in ms: T-0: A trade at Price X occurs at exchange. T+250: The broker process it. T+400: It gets to your machine T+800: You react and put in your order...

Back to the OP. If there is a Sell restriction, you cannot sell. It does not matter if you have a position. Likewise with a Buy restriction (more rare). Think of it as a partial halting. There are steps that have to occur for an order to fill and along the way things can happen. Orders can...

:) Some people (now on ignore list) have never experienced disorderly markets and claim they know so much and other are ignorant. :rolleyes: They read that market orders are always filled immediately, but do not understand what "trading" means. There has to be a counterparty to a trade...