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Did you purchase whatever he was selling, and if so has it helped in your trading?

On a similar note, if anyone knows of a reputable alternative to AudiTrack (http://www.auditrack.com) I'd be interested. Auditrack is kinda pricy if you want to build a track record for multiple day trading models because they charge per order and fill in addition to monthly fees. If I...

QQQ and SPY both up .50-.60

A lot of money is made on insider info that would scare the dickens out of the investing public if it's ever made public. Someone very close to me works at one of the largest VC firms in the US and sees top executives from Fortune 500 companies every day. With a "wink wink" and a "nod nod"...

Alphe, How are you handling consecutive signals bars in your trailing stop model? For example, if you have: bar 1: +5.00 pts bar 2: +5.00 pts bar 3: +5.00 pts bar 4: -whatever (stops you out) Does your analysis consider that one trade or 3 separate trades?

I average slightly more than 4 trades per day using 5m charts. If I switch to 3m charts I average 6 trades per day but the profit target (and stop loss) is smaller, so the effects of slippage + commissions is a higher % of my profits. btw, my results are very similar whether I use 2-10m...

Nitro and I are cool. We were sort of argued on different parts of the same picture. Just an fyi, I hope I never implied that Checkpoint=Windows. I'd never run a Windows firewall. I've only used Checkpoint on Unix platforms or as an appliance. Checkpoint did come out with a Windows...

If you're looking at trading timeframes <= 5m bars, try looking at strategies that yield 1:1 risk-reward and see if you like it or not. I originally came from the swing-trading camp and would target 3:1 risk-reward and would always trail my stop loss. But as I made the transition to day...

I never said "NAT is a firewall". I said: What do you refuse to believe that the *vast majority* of all users who would consider "does TWS run behind a firewall?" are not either using NAT or a proxy server? Get off your high horse, dude. I made my $$ during the tech boom with my stock...

Hmm... all of my Checkpoint configs ran on Solaris boxes. I've only seen Unix configs of Checkpoint. There are a variety of Unix flavors. I believe Checkpoint's Windows port came after the purchased another company during the Internet bubble to offer a low-end solution to the small businesses...

Since I'm a 100% mechanical systems trader, I have two laptops up at once. I run 3 instances of Wealth-Lab on one laptop (I follow 3 markets at once), and on the other laptop I have TWS and J-Trader up. When Wealth-Lab signals a buy alert I enter an order in either TWS or J-Trader. I do...

Hmm, Checkpoint is only the premier firewall vendor to enterprise environments and Fortune 500 & Global 2000. As far as Cisco best practices, here's just something I found quickly (notice DMZ uses internal IP's): http://www.netcraftsmen.net/welcher/papers/pix01.html Anyways, like I said...

I use laptops in my home office for trading rather than desktops. While it's a tad more expensive and you have less flexibility, the two times I had power failures I just cruised on batteries. I have a small APC UPS for each of my DSL modems.

To get this thread back on topic, it is likely that the original question refers to a user who is either: 1. using personal desktop firewall 2. in corporate environment with desktop using NAT 3. in corporate environment with desktop using proxy server I haven't tested TWS with #3 but...

The physical IP is on the firewall which redirects to internal IP. That is standard best practice. Show me any best practices or install guide from Checkpoint or Cisco that shows public IP's in the DMZ. They are all non-routable private IP's. The firewall does the forwarding.

Then you are not following best practices guide for building DMZ. You should put the physical IP on the firewall and do redirect to non-routable IP's in your DMZ. Besides, my original response was to deal with the *vast majority* of users who are either using personal desktop firewall or are...

If you are "behind a firewall" then you need NAT (aka "masquerade") or a proxy server to talk to the outside world. If you're referring to the personal desktop firewalls, then you're reall "on the firewall". You argue semantics on network vs. application layer but no one ever runs a...

Eric, The point is Alphe already backtested a 100% mechanical system, and gave us blow-by-blow commentary on his siulated trading, to the tune of >1000 posts. We all warned him about the challenges of real trading (not simulated) with real money on the line, both psychological and from a...

Yes, but if you are "behind a firewall" you are either using NAT or a proxy server to talk to the outside world. (Unless you're using some crappy consumer desktop-only firewall.) Hence, the reason I said what I said.

TWS works fine behind NAT.