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Chessman, Are you staying around when your computer is trading ? For instance to check that you're still online, to check that the flow of data feeding your system is still running, etc etc... You mention "unatended" in your initial email, suggesting that you might be playing football...

Invite him for a beer, so that he sees your face. If he remembers your face, he will remember your trades better. (a glass of milk might also do it !).

Something else I think of: is there a way for you to always talk to the same dealer ? Myself, I only talk to the same dealer, such as he pretty much knows what my positions are ("pretty much"). This recently proved to be useful: I wanted to sell a stock which I and he knew I had purchased the...

I think that making more trade(s) suspecting that your broker had made at least an error was really a big mistake on your part. Should the market have moved substantially, and against the "unwated" position of your broker, they might have been less understanding. Even though the initial...

something I don't understand: your initial strategy is "how do we set our selves up for a nice run down in the DOW". Then your last sentence talks about buying a Future contract on the Dow. Am I missing something here ?

Hello, I read somewhere on this forum that on way to check if a trading system is consistent, is obviously, for example to back-test it, or walkforward it. Results should be consistent within… I believe I read 95% confidence level, or something like that. However, to me that rule...

If your proffit target for each trade is 0.05%, it seems pretty clear to me that what you're merely trying to do is market making. Market making is: I buy right now at market price and put simultaneously an offer 0.05% higher, hoping for the volatility on your index/stock/future to be high...