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It depends on which exchange you are referring to (trading rules, market models, etc.). But on most exchanges supporting the FIFO model, if you decrease the size of your order, you are keeping your priority in the queue. For all other modifications, you are loosing it.

That would be very difficult to implement. Baron would need to have a real-time feed on all listed product (stocks, options, futures, forex, etc) and a way to automatically follow the trading calls. And for this to work, trading calls would need to call the exit point, in real-time as well. On...

Who pays for news on the Net these days? Are there news so secret that if you don't pay you'll not be getting them? I might be missing something here...

You mean, like 'Google News'??

I just checked the direct OPRA feed and at 1:55 pm ET yesterday, the market was [0.00 - 1.00] (no bid) for that strike. It explains why you didn't get filled and it shows that there were no stale quote on the market. Possibly a glitch on the IB side.

At what time did your printscreen were taken?

Why the chat feature is not working on your PC? I used that a couple of time and the response was really quick and helpful.

Making money in sim is not a guarantee that you'll make money in real. Losing money in sim is a guarantee that you'll losing money in real. But like already said, try it and you'll see if it worths something for you. For me, I wouldn't go live with a new model/strategy without at least 3 months...

Maybe, but in some posts in this thread, he seems to say that trading for a living was impossible. But maybe I understood him incorrectly.

Ok. Backtesting is one thing. Paper trading is another thing. Real money trading is the real deal. The first 2 don't guarantee that you'll make money with real trading. After a year or so of real trading, you might re-ask yourself your original questions, if you still make consistent money. For...

How much time have you been live trading? How many live trades have you done so far? Backtesting results is a good start but finding a profitable system is a long journey that can be painful.

I don't know if I'll get a commission from that once you'll become profitable and willing to pay back Charles ;).

Easy! Use Charles Tanti's best-of-the-universe system. :D

I'm not talking about strangers on the Net. I'm talking about real people that I know. I'm sorry for you that you think that no one can trade for a living. I won't try to convince you about anything cause I don't have anything to get from that. I don't know what you do for a living, but for sure...

I agree with you, my wordings was not as good as what I intended to mean. I meant to find a good potential system/model/strategy to advance to the following validation steps.

Seriously? Does it mean that you don't know anyone who had made it? Personally, I know a couple of guys who had made it, but since I've been working in the trading industry all my life, I might be in a better position to know those guys...

My 2-cent recipe: 1) Initial know how (math, programming, trading, financial markets, behaviorism, etc.) 2) Find a profitable strategy/model/system using manual analysis (charts, excel, etc.). When found, goto 3. 3) Backtest with several months/years of data. If still profitable, goto 4, else go...

+1 I totally agree. I contacted IB a few times, and everytime through chat, and service was fast and accurate. Last time was 1 week ago. Phone calls are so 80' ;).

Why don't you do something about this? It's not like you can't. Like changing broker?

Isn't your data reversed? Bid prices must be lower than ask prices. Unless it has been taken from a market that I don't know nothing about.