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Yannis, I did not back test your system. but we are actually saying the same thing.. look, your entries are not random, they are filtered to find a trend (!). within a trend, you can use random entries that's true. my point was not to show you can't use random entries, but to prove the...

problem is : markets aren't random. also, there is a big difference between a general probability of an outcome (among many trades) and the local probability of each trade. ie try to get long in a strong down trend. you can try 10 times, 20 times, 30 times, based on your exit / stop loss...

I think they are also ways to split the load. some applications can use one network adapter, and others another one. more difficult to setup, but the end result is eventually a PC with twice the bandwidth. using max capacity in both connections. HOWEVER, you have to remember that most...

(hi SethArb) I read with a lot of interest this thread. It seems several are trying bonds coming from other places and find them quite challenging. It's funny because I find bonds easier than let's say, ES. However, you can't apply the daytrading styles used in ES in the bonds futs. I...

there are other good brokers out there. but saying IB is not good is simply ridiculous. it can happen to anyone to have a bad fill or an issue with your broker. so I am not saying you are not having a problem. on the contrary I fully believe you and hope you can resolve to your...

you were right about the thread. regarding the scaling, I do something similar. a possible key to understand : treat each scale as a different position. it's not about averaging then, it's about placement and S/R. and the actual S/R is decided by the market not your strategy. anyway...

thanks candle for a great thread. totally agree

it seems stops with stocks are often an issue. with futures it is much better. although I would not use stop market. on the other hand, it's always a concern to me, since stop limits are often simulated on IB servers. so if IB goes down, for whatever reason, during troubled market, I may...

every situation is different. however I read and know several traders who would say that part of the process of being succesful has to do with 'unlearning' many things. The more you know, the more it takes to forget about misleading notions regarding the markets. Anyway it was a way to...

the smarter you are, the longer it takes.

this thread is interesting. it's another example of how an interesting thread goes sideways and then die in a down trend. We'll try to prevent this for a while until you kids finally kill the interesting content or you are banned.

vulture, regarding the post before. exactly.

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hehe.. yes exactly

I did not want to use this expression 'big players'. it means nothing. there are important traders and institutions in both pit and mini. as well as program trading and arbitrage. and sorry to disappoint some, but traders aren't the market. volume is coming from outside. therefore traders...

'big boys' aren't trading against other traders either. that's the newbie mistake actually : to think that other traders are trading against them. they aren't. traders only trade against themselves. but that's another story.

exactly.

There were very good posts earlier. there are several definitions for 'scalping'. however the one that really applies imho is when you try to get A spread (it's not necessarly the inside bid/ask). and scalping refers to 'shaving' the spread. so yes, it's sometimes buying at bid, but that's not...

hawker is asking to get back on topic, I think a few pages of 'explanation' off topic is probably enough already.. I do think scalping is the most difficult form of trading when you start. it becomes the easiest one afterward imho. scalping is not ultra short term trading. it's about...

the grocery store. market making, that's how you look at it.