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thanks hwaxen; could you elaborate your statement Jack Hershey, please ? paulus

hi, as a fairly new trader (7 1/2months) i was wondering whether people could help me with an overview of all the possible means (indicators) one could use to measure momentum; with reference to using it in an exit-strategy. kind regards, paulus

solves also the problem i had with the volumes ( on the june contract ) ; thanks again for responding to my post paulus

oeps must be it ! did only one roll-over so far; rollover is one week before expiration ? excuses from a newbie ! regards, paulus

Hi, since last friday i have a large spread on the S&P mini varying from 0.5pt to 0.75pt's ! is this a problem for IB customers only or does this problem have nothing to do with IB ? started trading only 7 months ago and never experienced this problem before (almost always had a 0.25pt...

btw, maybe def can tell us what the normal refreshmentrate is for data at IB ? paulus

recently there has been a problem with SLOW executions (slow, compared to what i was used to at IB); sometimes i got NO execution at all and received the message 'could not validate contract at this moment'; today IB sent a message to clients that 'could not validate contract at this...

absolutely ! i am trading ES-mini; particularly in the first hour of trading (high volume) this probleem appears; cost me a lot in terms of slippage too; contacted IB via chatroom but they totally ignored teh problem; serverproblem ? paulus

ElectricSavant, As i told you i am a nembie .. So i would be more than happy if you could explain that to me ... regards, Paulus basically, i am trying to start daytrading and therefore develop a system with a 'workable' stoploss

thnx a) could you please explain how market depth relates to noise b) where can i find those figures and how should one apply them in defining a stoploss ? Paulus

Hi, I've started trading futures (ES) about 6 months ago and so still developping a trading system; in this respect I have 2 questions : a) how can one define stops just above the so called 'noise-level' but tight enough to avoid large losses ? b) how can one to define a stop taking...

nr 2 trading in Belgium .. nr 1 is apparently Eddy ...

Hi, I am a new trader, opened an account at IB, some 6 months ago; Only recently I had problems with order execution : a large delay in execution or no execution at all "could not value contract at this time"; is this a serverproblem at IB / other people having this problem ? Paulus

Hi, I recently (4 months ago) started trading futures / S&P-mini ; Where can one find the exact date that one has to rollover the future contracts (recently march --> jun) ? How long do the old contracts continue to be listed/traded ? Kind regards, Paulus

Hi, Anybody having a suggestion for the use of a volatility-index for (intra)daytrading ? Anyone having experience with the use of the RVI ? QT-users, what volatility-index did you choose ? Paulus

Hi, When developping a tradingplan one should have rules for eventually holding positions overnight. Which are the principles to be taken into account ? Any suggestions ? Thanks Paulus

Hi, Since I've recently started trading with the tape/S&P futures I work with the realtime streaming quotes for the S&P, ES2Z. found at www.quote.com Until friday they were realtime and free; today I found out there was a 10min delay; can anyone tell me where to find free realtime S&P...