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Well I was down about $20,000 for 2003. Since January I have cut back my trading so that I place only 1or 2 positions a day and have been focussing on education and strategy development. Have sworn not to increase size until I have compelling reason (i.e. obvious understanding and good...

nkhoi, so, is it any good?

Love it! Mind you another, even less limited observer, might note that that hand was moved by another hand, whcih was moved by another, and another and...

Yes, I trade currency futures . I pay $4.80 round turn on a approx.$125,000 dollar postion. If I use my forex broker (commerce bank http://www.cbfx.com/) for the same size postion I pay a spread of 3 pips which is $38 . I looked at hotspot and frankly as far as I can see you still go through...

I wonder why so many people use these bucketshops when they could be dealing direct with the market with currency futures? Is it because in forex you only need a small account?

Hi Def, there have been so many threads on ET about what percentage of traders are profitable. Some say 5% , some 10%. Some that if they last one year or 2 years 70% are profitable. You are in a unique position - as an exec. in one of the largest active trader brokers - to know the facts...

Even with the flaming in this thread I am learning alot from everyone. Thanks!

https://www.marketcompass.com/main/software/features.asp Has anyone tried this and how does it compare with optionvue? I have used neither.

Todd, Looks like I jumped the gun with my post (oops, now 269 since december:)). I thought you guys were deliberately ignoring me. Sorry.

Vienna, I applaud you for taking the time to warn us. I wrote to tradingmarkets on monday about this thread, followed up with another letter on tuesday - so far no reply. I bought the course 2 weeks ago; am not too concerned as it may have something useful (haven't had time to look )...

Nihabashi, On the tradingmarkets site there is a page giving Carter's sterling performance for the last 5 years: this is put there to bolster sales of his pivot point course. If in another account(whether his own or one he trades for someone else) he lost 40% of the account in 5 weeks...

I've been using camtasia - which records the whole screen(s)

So true. Amazing that some scientists are blind to the factt that they cling to their beliefs just as much as a fundamentalist christian does to theirs.

You probably mean something like omnitrader or metastock. I have both and found them too limited. Finally I bought weathlab - which allows me to program my own strategies. It just depends what you want. p.s. if you buy metastock I have all the plus$200 plugins, pm me for a good deal:)

Kerna, Thanks for this! I tried it on my 2 computers- both of which have NOrton - and it found a handful of virus on both. Not only that: while it was running Norton found a couple, so it seems to have jump started Symantec at the same time.

Nicely put, Grob

Sip, Great to read your expanded thoughts. Are you at a prop firm? Do you trade equities or futures? Could you share some more on how you trade.

This is a great thread. Some majors for me: 1.having a plan. 2. Being patient to let understanding of the markets grow. i.e. not expecting to be ahead until I have done the groundwork. I expect a year or two from now before this becomes satisfactory. 3. Relating to what someone else said. I...

Larry, I am assuming you can get both working, but at different times. If so the reason you are having problems running them together is probably that they are using the same client Id on TWS. I had the same trouble getting button trader to work while Medved was running. Support on medved...

Most important feature, SERVICE: Sierra - very good. Medved: Outstanding! Only pipped out for service first place by Wealth-lab . (buttontrader is champion - but is a frontend) Pivot points: Sierra - I gave up on plotting pivot points. Apparently it can be done if you open 3 charts, do...