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Were you able to restart your system normally? Have you made any recent changes to your computer (updated drivers, windows automatic updates, new hardware/software)? If you're not able to restart it normally, on XP there's an option to press F8 when the OS is first booting. If you did...

Hi. Is there a specific reason that you're shifting your focus away from swing trading? I don't know much about trading stocks, so I can't address your technical questions. However, I do know that you can short these stocks if your broker has access to shares (your broker should have a...

DTN/IQ's IQFeed with QuoteTracker charting software ($60/year) is a great combination. If you want to parse out your charting package and data feed, IQFeed is the way to go. With esignal you have to pay for the charting package even if you only want the data feed. Soapbox Editorial: A...

garfangle, What's the average price on your long position? $24? $26?

Hi, abxs. It's a bit difficult to fully understand the price action on this chart without knowing the S/R levels defined by previous periods (off the left side of the chart). In looking at the bar on which you opened your short position, my eyes see a with-the-trend, long entry as the...

I did a search on this topic, and the few threads I found dealt primarily with voice-to-text software. I would love to have program that would use the TWS API to submit orders based on voice commands (e.g., "S&P, buy 2 cars at market" or "EuroFX, stop sell 3 cars at price 2685"). It...

I've been meaning to check out one of the open houses there -- urbane living without the philly taxes. Are you in lower merion or radnor? Regards, William

Bala Cynwyd - any other suburban phila people (in addition to surfer, syswizard, and InstTrader)? Regards,

Unless you own/lease a seat on a futures exchange, trading gains are not considered earned income and are not subject to FICA. If you have your trading set up as a business you can choose to pay yourself a salary with a portion of your trading gains in order to have earned income for retirement...

...and why does IB close idealpro trading between 5:00p and 5:30p (ET)? Is that really necessary?

http://www.regisdata.co.uk/tickdata.htm Edit: I received very good service from this company, but I just checked out the link in the previous post, www.tickdatamarket.com, and it has better prices and a longer period of available data (at least on futures and forex data).

If you took fewer trades and those were randomly selected from all of the trades your system signaled, then your expected percentage of winners should be similar to your large sample results (+/- some margin of error). If your subset of trades has a specific bias (e.g., you only kept those that...

To trade the ER2 you can lease a GEM membership, which is currently in the $200 to $250 range. ES and NQ need the IOM. http://www.cme.com/trading/mem/leaseprices.html http://www.cme.com/files/ProductListingByDivision.pdf

I wouldn't spend too much time on this question at the moment. Honing entries is not a critical skill at the beginning, as long as your entry point doesn't fundamentally change the risk/reward equation for the worse. A solid risk management plan is the first item to work out. Fortunately...

Hi, cicsman. What stands out to me from your post is that there is no mention of a planned stop loss. In addition to your entry point, before you open your position you should know where you're getting out for a profit (on at least part of your position) and where you're getting out to cut...

Is trading what you enjoy doing, and are you consistently profitable in trading your own account? If so, why not consider skipping the traditional job market and just trade for a living? IMO as you get older, each additional financial and familial commitment exponentially increases the...

Jax, Have you figured out why you give the money back? Do you feel confident once you have a win under your belt and start taking greater risks? Do you hang on to losers longer than you should because you don't want to give back any of your winnings (i.e., I'll get out when I'm...

Not that I'm naive enough to believe there isn't some way to get screwed out of your money, but I thought segregated customer accounts provide very good protection if a firm goes under. According to press reports, the Refco futures customers' money remained intact through the problems (except...

Great patience -- great trade. Regards,

Green has a feature article on footnotes in this month's Active Trader magazine (May 2006). Also be sure to check out his reply to a letter on page 11 where he gives specific instructions on how to transfer gains to Schedule C. Regards,