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Ninja is nice in that you can try it for free if you have a broker such as IB. You might even be able to connect it to IBs demo server, in which case you don't even need an account with them (I've never tried that) to give it a whirl. NinjaScript is based on C#, which is nice since it is an...

Mildly bullish in the very short term...Reasons: 1) holiday season coming up. 2) Big winter storms hitting outside = people shopping from inside. 3) Amazon sells everything under the sun. 4) Technically it's ambling in to a bunch of support areas ($135ish, $125ish). If it were closer...

LONG TRADES: PCU, AMZN, USO, AAPL Beginning to nibble here with small positions: AMZN = strong uptrend. Positive on a general market down day. PCU = uptrend and approaching support. USO = oversold and approaching support. More speculative. AAPL = Monster uptrend, oversold and approaching...

I run standalone on the PC and ticks are fixed at the values you mentioned. I don't believe you can edit them yet.

There is a classified ads section for this type of thing. Also, "a proven automated trading idea" is a bit of an oxymoron...an idea implies something that has not yet come to pass.

6E (Euro Futures) can be active during the London session and has some decent trends. I'm a 9-5'er as well (PST)...my solution? Get up at 4-5am and do the pre-market until about 7:30am or so when the doldrums start to hit. I monitor the market during the day, but don't trade during the...

LONG: AUY Taking a nibble here with a tight stop. Will add to position as we show some signs of reversal (as long as stop isn't hit) Oversold in an uptrend with a gap down this morning that filled quickly. The Fill: BOT +1 AUY 100 APR 10 12 CALL @1.94 AMEX, AUY MARK 12.58,

I'm assuming that moving to Tier II and up is costly?

Thinking out loud here, so please correct me if I'm wrong: Stop Order => Market order when executed so remove liquidity. Stop-Limit => Limit when executed => add liquidity. So it seems that unbundled is the way to go: IB price is $0.035/share but you get -$0.027 back for liquidity (assume...

I was wondering the same thing myself. It seems on many of the exchanges, you actually get a rebate by being a "liquidity provider". From reading the description IB has on their page, it sounds like you are a liquidity provider if you use an order that won't immediately execute at the bid/ask...

What particular features are you looking for that aren't found in ones you've listed? Given that Ninja goes for like $60/month and a lite license to ButtonTrader is less than that, and BracketTrader is shareware, I'm assuming you want something on the ultra (free) cheap? If you have any...

I actually prefer to trade spreads (or at least long options), however in some accounts (401k), you just aren't allowed to trade spreads. I also am part of an employee stock purchase plan (buy at 15% discount) and covered calls allow me to derive additional protection (and income) on those...

The previous link has some good info, but I think it applies if you are already trading live. The reasoning behind starting with IWM/SPY is that you can minimize your risk of loss during your transition from paper to live trader. As an example: I am learning to trade the ES futures. I have...

I'm not that familiar with Sierra Charts, but according to their website, they offer an API which is based off of C++. It doesn't appear like you need to be a C++ master to create a system as you will only be implementing your system logic and interfacing with Sierra Charts system functions...

Are you looking to automate the entire process or just the generation of divergence signals? If you're looking to auto generate and execute orders, I'd probably use something other than Excel unless you plan on hovering in the background to monitor trades as they occur.

COMMENT Note to self...you'd think that since I have a math minor that'd I'd be able to add. Entered wrong stop in for IWM trade, which actually would not have been stopped out. Oh well. Next time be observant.

We'll assume we're talking about price, but this applies to indicator values as well. Mark your starting price at time T0. Now keep track of the maximum/minimum value it achieves. At some point you will hit an extreme value (EXTREME1) and price will then retrace from that value. When it...

SHORT TRADE: IWM Here's the fill: BOT IWM 100 JAN 10 60 PUT @2.57 CBOE, IWM MARK 59.74. Stop: Usual 2ATR Size: Usual <1% Risk (about 0.5%) Target: Same as before. 1st is $57-ish, 2nd is $55 area. Back in to the IWM position based on general market weakness. I've been noticing that very...

RESULTS IWM gapped up on this one so I'm out with a small 1R loss. Jobs report was (in relative terms) positive in that we only lost 100k or so last month. LESSONS LEARNED: Don't trade through jobs report (1st Fri of every month) or put 50% on before and 50% on afterPut stop in...

I'm not saying he isn't a decent trader (his website seemed to contain some decent tutorial stuff). I'm just saying that my friend seemed pleased one day and pissed the next, so his performance seemed very inconsistent and it appeared to me that he was quickly rocketing from a free website to...