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If you click on the target or the stop, you can then use up or down arrow keys to move the order. However you must then click "update" or else have a hotkey for that. You can also adjust mouse grab sensitivity in the app settings. A good quality mouse or trackball helps, too. Adjust your...

Your gatekeeping is a bit arbitrary. Success is whatever one calls it. If just "beating the market" is success, if simply outperforming the major indices is success, then I will hazard to say that there are a lot more than 5% of traders in the "successful" category. If successful means they can...

If you are using Linux or Windows, look and see if there is a "PrtScr" key on your keyboard. That's the quick and easy way. No apps required. Then if you want to redact stuff like account number etc you can just blop it out with an image editor. Not necessary, though, IMHO.

I doubt very much that you are up $3k on a $3500 account with so little knowledge of trading. Could you post a screenshot showing your P/L? Just so we know you are not just trolling. But in giving full benefit of the doubt, I would say you need to do a lot more reading.

Difficult to answer your question. Not enough data. Could you give us a step by step breakdown of a typical trade? As already posted, a chart would be great. Are you day trading, or swing trading? If you are day trading, it sounds like you are making your entry at exactly the worst point in...

No fun today. I'm out. Meh.

Covered my shorts, buck a share. All time new low! Going long now.

Hang on, Alice. Pack your moon bag.

Stoopid crystal ball. I think I will fire up the TWS and short this thing hard.

To the moon, Alice.

Crystal ball says support at $18.50

Crystal Ball forecast... TVIX up to 28.50 today after an opening bell dip.

I think TVIX is gonna make a big move again today. I won't be trading, though. Have to go to Slidell with the ol lady to pick up our truck before she goes to work. They just replaced the engine. Now I just got to replace the driver side door and the passenger side mirror, and the windshield and...

Hmmm yeah I will look for that. However I will probably end up setting an alarm for 1545 NY time, and close out manually. I might want to let something run overnight some time, or give myself time to pick a good exit point.

Eeep. That's a bad beatdown, yeah. I guess he didn't believe in setting stops, or else he was trading craaaaaazy volume. If I lost $20k in one sitting I think I would just quit trading for a while until I figured out what the hell just happened and how not to happen that thing again.

Okay, I never noticed this before. Or maybe I did, and dismissed it out of hand because it didn't look like a proper VWAP indicator when I tried putting it on a chart. Maybe it just magically appeared in an update. But yes Virginia, there really is a VWAP in TWS. In a chart window, pull down...

I haven't been able to do anything with it yet. I just get errors. I'm doing something wrong. I hope to get a project going before long. IB also offers an API interface. I find their commissions pretty reasonable, actually. I can't imagine paying that much in a month.