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Michael, I'm aware of what you wrote. Since it seems as if you replied to my triple loss experience, I need to make clear that those losses alone didn't trigger my desire to change the strategy. What made me think of a change was that the historical drawdown recently got exceeded...

Hello Michael, indeed I didn't seriously backtest my idea, since I got only a few days of data for the current YM june contract. What kind of data do you use for longer term backtests? By the way, the profit/trade data can be misleading imo; because a high profit/trade combined with low...

Unfortunately, combinations of large opening range and sharp reversal are not that rare. I remember having had three losses in a row with YM in december 2005: -40, -40 and -70 points. On each day a long was triggered, but then prices traveled down through the whole opening range and below -...

I let my systems run unattended. After I found out which order types and markets are safe, everything worked fine.

I like HyperOrder most. It's very stable and free of cost. I also tried TradeBullet and TradeBolt, neither of them worked only half as good (if they worked at all).

QuoteTracker offers "Volume by Price", which is similar to Market Profile imo. If you use IB data, it doesn't cost you anything. http://www.medved.net/

http://www.metaquotes.net/ Requires nothing more than a demo account. Highly customizable platform, very recommended!

Does Fractal Finance work for you yet? If so, what do you think about it? Are the signals profitable? Is it supposed to work intra day? For which instruments do you use it? Thanks in advance!

Cheese, I don't understand your criticism. As with all mechanical strategies, the trader using this one assumes that future results for the YM will be similar to the backtested ones - at least concerning the edge this system exploits. If the backtest shows that there's a significant chance...

Thanks for the fast reply, def! That explains my problem.

Hello, last night I had a short position on the 167.5 DEC05 call option. At 3PM local time (15 minutes before close) I wanted to close my short position by buying the appropriate amount of contracts. Bid x Ask was 1.91 x 1.95 then. I entered a 1.92 buy order. At the first attempt it...

Hello, I currently use the programs I previously mentioned. Except for TS2000i, they're available as free versions. HyperServer takes IB data and puts them to TS' Global Server, so you can use all TS features. You can create charts, apply strategies, pull up radar screens. Then, Hyper Order with...

TradeStation 2000i (Omega Research) with HyperServer Lite and HyperOrder / HyperOrder Client (www.hypertrader.it)

Who determines the prices of the answers?

That's new to me. Weren't the requirements for free TS8 access much higher, like 50 RTs/month?

I really like collective2. I have subsribed to a system which trades stocks, and the trades are executed via TradeBullet, so there's no problem with possible email delays. Sometimes it happens that some singals aren't executed though, so it's necessary to compare the system's open positions with...

Hello, I wonder if there's a way to disable the auto logoff feature. I ask myself why IB, a broker otherwise not known for excessive hand holding, doesn't allow the traders to let TWS run uninterrupted for more than 24 hours without the need for manual change of the logoff time.

Thank you very much Holmes!

Hello Maria, thanks for your suggestion. If I applied it properly, it doesn't seem to adress my problem though. Indeed it does change the number of decimal places in the strategy optimization report. However, the strategy performance report still states the trade prices with only 2...