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    The evolution of my trading - Dumping the indicators & loving small losses

    The bottom is the better sine wave and the top is better momentum. I have stopped using these for my day trading, in favor of using basic support & resistance with order flow. I'm not really using these for swing trading either. But I haven't removed them from my charts yet. I'm still...
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    The evolution of my trading - Dumping the indicators & loving small losses

    I finished my blog series which was the subject of the first post in this thread. I haven't been posting trades because I don't feel like defending them against attacks. Now that the journey to profitability is complete, I start a new journey to slowly increase my size so that my income goals...
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    NinjaTrader vs OpenQuant for automated trading

    Have you looked at hosting your apps on a dedicated server? You can get virtual dedicated windows servers for around $50/month.
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    NinjaTrader vs OpenQuant for automated trading

    Thanks for the excellent review of your experience with OQ. I'm curious if you've looked Ninjatrader so that you could give a comparison? Ninja may have a few of those limitations as well (such as not having the account balance) but I think most of those are possible with Ninja. The Ninja...
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    NinjaTrader vs OpenQuant for automated trading

    All the acronyms they use in the description makes me really suspicious of the rest: Pretty funny really.
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    NinjaTrader vs OpenQuant for automated trading

    I collect data for market replay all the time, I haven't noticed any performance impact. I have a quad-core with 8 gigs ram. If I miss a day I can download it from the ninjatrader server. They are files so you can copy them to another pc, back them up, etc. People used to trade market replay...
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    NinjaTrader vs OpenQuant for automated trading

    One great feature of Ninjatrader is market replay. I'm currently working on some complex order book analysis and this can't be backtested. But I use market replay at 500x and I can run through an entire session in 5-10 minutes or so. This has been very valuable for me to test & tweak my...
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    NinjaTrader vs OpenQuant for automated trading

    Is OpenQuant still alive? Seriously I haven't heard anyone mention it in over a year, until I got a notification that this thread was updated. I've programmed Ninja v6.5 and ran automated strategies for about a year. No major problems. Now I trade manually with NT7 but it's rock solid...
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    The evolution of my trading - Dumping the indicators & loving small losses

    Henry - good question! Exchange membership costs around $150k. You can lease one for around $1500/month. And since I trade both Eurex & CME I'd need two! To be honest I'm just learning to scalp, today was my first day doing pure scalping with real money. Normally I daytrade and take...
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    The evolution of my trading - Dumping the indicators & loving small losses

    Thank you for your question. If the market is balanced I want to fade the highs & lows. If the market is imbalanced then I want to enter with the move.
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    The evolution of my trading - Dumping the indicators & loving small losses

    ES swing trade stopped out with a few ticks profit on second half. I think 5 pts overall. If I see some more buying I'll try another long. Scalping on the dax & bund done with real money this morning. Was a bit slow due to the european holiday on monday. Still looking forward to...
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    The evolution of my trading - Dumping the indicators & loving small losses

    I tweeted my real money swing trade real time today: Banked half at 2.75 pts and I'm holding the rest. It may get stopped out but I'm giving it a chance. Here's what I'm looking at:
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    The evolution of my trading - Dumping the indicators & loving small losses

    Ok, let's see your sim trades showing you made money. i have a hunch you're not going to be able to post any.
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    The evolution of my trading - Dumping the indicators & loving small losses

    This is from the other day. Account starting with 7 is real money, S is for sim101. I won't post yesterday's because no one would believe it. I did tweet one of the trades real time via Twitter, got 4.5 pts on ES (real).
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    The evolution of my trading - Dumping the indicators & loving small losses

    Your post is very representative of the reason that most profitable traders do not spend time here. Every time we post something we are attacked, insulted, called a "shill", etc. I have to ask myself why I bother. There is very rarely an interesting discussion to come out of sharing...
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    The evolution of my trading - Dumping the indicators & loving small losses

    Scalping this morning on the dax. This is on simulator, will be going to real money very soon..
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    Fidelity Active Trader Pro - Major Issues

    I started my daytrading paying $8 commissions with Fidelity That didn't last long before I realized that it'd never work. And I opened an IB account. Well the truth is that didn't work either for a couple years but at least it wasn't the commission killing me. ;) There is simply no reason...
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    The evolution of my trading - Dumping the indicators & loving small losses

    Only one trade today on ES. It's rare that I do that, I guess my discipline is getting better. On the Bund I had a few:
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    The evolution of my trading - Dumping the indicators & loving small losses

    Interesting suggestions. I've debated on the first one, also known as "time stop". I have had trades take forever to hit their targets so I am undecided. For the second, my target is based on a multiple of my risk. so as soon as I have that I want to exit. This is for the first contract...
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    The evolution of my trading - Dumping the indicators & loving small losses

    Some thoughts on yesterday's ES trades: 1. I won only half my trades. But I ended positive. How? My winners were bigger than my losers. That’s really important for me. 2. While it wasn’t a good day, I got 2 pts trading one contract (trade 2 was actually two different setups...
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