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wouldn't you know it.....today I was hit with a 4 tick slippage on my 10 lot. I still made my obj. of 11 ticks from entry without being stopped out but took home only 7 ticks. Hate to think what slippage I may hv on 20 lots...so I'll just stick to 10 lots

tks austp, I will hv to stay at 10 lots as my stats blow-up if I increase my profit objective beyond 11 ticks. I only take max three trade per day.

I've been scalping 10 lots for 11 ticks for most of this year. Stop and mkt orders are part of my method. So far slippage and multiple fills a just an annoyance. My account size has grown to allow for greater size. EMinis can well handle it but its the ER2 that has the better returns for...

I day trade the ER2. I've been trading max ten lots and am hesitant to increase size as slippage with multiple fills may become the norm. Anybody on here trade larger than 10 or 15 lots and find this a problem on the ER2 or is the consensus that liquidity should not be a problem.

problems here also

Very nice work....I wld also be interrested in understanding yr setups

US housing is still a great value compared to equivalent cities/areas in other first world countries.

ddunbar...yes, his rvw. I've been tdg ags for a looong time and its the first time I've seen a spread put on for the nxt two expected crops. Just an observation and not a criticism

DRT - You shouldn't be so quick to blame IB. Scalping corn spreads in red jly/red dec is dangerous as there is no real liquidity out there. 1.5 cents loss on a leg is cheap.

i just figured out one needs a space on either side of the minus sign. all is now well . tks

i entered zn #f-zt #f or zn u6-zt u6 for example and keep getting message "invalid symbol.. of note: I only hv esignal EOD.

is it possible to chart spreads on esignal....for example spread btwn KWU6 and WU6 or SMU6 and SMZ6.

got it..............tks ter

Jerry; am sure this has been asked b4 but the thread is way to long to search. Using QT, is possible to hv a 5 min, 60 min and daily chart up of the same future symbol simultaneously?

tks for input rough trader: after rvw, I agree and hv ordered a dell 2407 for $806

I hv 2 dell 20.1 in 2005 FPW and am looking for a third. Dell seems to hv substituted the 2005 WFP with the 2007 WPF. what if any is the difference and is one better than the other??

noted, tks

another esignal question... my sp emini 60 min. charts start and end on the hour, how do I program for them to start and end on the half hour. tks.

Understand IB is great for stocks and has a lot of support from the emini day traders. However I understand that for futures trading as a whole, IB is not very highly recommended. Is that true

is IB's TWS available over the weekends.......and therefore the data available