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  1. TraDaToR

    Enjoying gains...

    Congrats. You seems like an experienced trader who has been around for a while. Please don't say me the contrary:D I think that if I had such a brilliant methodology/system, I would try to take every single $ around through applying it to a lot of markets for all the years that i've been...
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    Enjoying gains...

    a little question : What is the level of consistency you've reached to be such confident? No losing months? weeks? days:D ?
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    Enjoying gains...

    Yes, I don't know if I'm more alive but definitely more hard-working and improving when I lose. Hopefully I will one day get to your level and find gains boring. Since i'm not there, I have to balance my feelings and have a more objective, synthetic view of my P§L. Today, I 've to think"...
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    Enjoying gains...

    I think I have quite a trading psychological problem and I am sure there are numerous traders having it : I am totally mad when I lose but I am not especially happy when I am profitable. It's like I don't care of my gains, I just watch my P§L and then start doing other stuff( I am...
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    Limit order fills on US and TY

    Yes, thanks for the advice, I use TS for my automated trading, so I only trade electronic markets. Does anybody else has some experiences of limit fills on TY and US and would like to share?
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    Limit order fills on US and TY

    Hello, Does somebody has experiences about limit orders fills on TY and US? On those instruments, it seems like the algorythm is FIFO. So what is the typical time frame to use to have a chance to buy at bid / sell at ask through limit orders? I know it depends of the book, levels... but...
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    Pairs Trading

    Whenever there is a quite profitable, logical strategy around, you will always have people saying that it is dead because of the number of guys already doing it. Pair trading has always been around and of course the biggest winning pairs have been exhausted or arbed so much that it is not...
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    Bid/ask historical datas

    Thank you very much. Do you prefer one of the above provider?
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    Bid/ask historical datas

    Hello, I'm working on some new strategies and it would be suitable for this kind of strategy to use historical bid/ask datas instead of OHLC. Where can I find some of these datas? I am looking either on continuous bid/ ask datas or end of bar bid/ask datas. Otherwise, is there a mean...
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    how do you evaluate yourselves, speculators?

    Definitely the second for me. No value added. Perhaps contributing to keep prices in line with other instruments for some of my systems...
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    Black Friday

    OK, I watch. I like krachs. Volatility is often good with me. Made my all time biggest day on February 27th.
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    Trader Monthly 100 (Top Earning Traders in 2006)

    To me, the second of the list might be the first. This guy Arnold was the counterpart of Hunter in the gas trade and we may have seen him blow out and Hunter on the top of the list, as well . I don't like these guys using all their capital on one bet...
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    How do you enter LIMIT on multi-legged trade?

    I don't understand why IB is undertaking the risk of partial 1 leg execution? What is the purpose of this? To me, pair trading gives some opportunities that needs to be traded quite fast. When you trade correlated markets, they have to move in the same direction and if you are using...
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    Books that have influenced you the most

    In no specific order : - "New Trading systems and methods" Kaufman - "Les systèmes de trading" Orphelin( in french, sorry... ) - "The new market wizards" Schwager - "Options, futures and derivatives" Hull ( don't know the real name in english ) - "reminiscences of...
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    WORST FILL EVER at Tradestation

    Are you guys taking about eCBOT? I have my bids disappearing on my TS Matrix since the beginning of the week.
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    are the futures opened friday?

    Doesn't it close at 815 am ? Friday, April 6, 2007 - Good Friday Closed (CME Commodites, CME Weather Options, CME GSCI®, CME Housing Options and CME Equity Indexes) Close at 10:00 a.m. (CME Foreign Exchange and CME Interest Rates) CME Equity Indexes close at 8:15 a.m. CME...
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    Matrix Window Frozen

    I 'm using the same build. There is still problems today on my platform. Bids are disappearing from time to time. Do you know what it can be?
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    Cost of carry in oil futures

    OK Thanks
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    Matrix Window Frozen

    Do you still have this issue? Do you think upgrading would fix it?
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    Matrix Window Frozen

    Me too... Bids are disappearing. I hope it will be fixed soon.
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