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I suggest you say you were trading for the past years and don't mince words. Stay away from saying you were a 'day trader' because that may bring up negative connotations. Say you operated a private hedge fund or managed equity positions, or whatever. Make it sound like you were involved in...

Once you start making 6 figures you'll realize how little it is. I'll let you know how I feel when I break into 7 figures. opm8

Never.

"and I have spent thousands already on false promises, and hype, and fraud" You don't learn, do you? opm8

You make 200 trades and end up with $50? I would say that is, by definition, overtrading. Unless you're married to this style of trading I'd recommend using a larger time frame chart like 3 or 5 minutes and aim for a bigger point target. It sounds like your risk-reward ratio is awful. You...

This can't be emphasized enough. Once you're consistently making money and are bored by your trading you know you're on your way to your financial goals. Trading is a business. Make your money, then seek excitement elsewhere. opm8

Any one type of MA will lack a feature or 'ability' that some other MA has. They cancel each other out. One will get you in early at the expense of giving you false moves. The other will keep you out of some moves but will be late to the party on quick market rips. There's no holy grail...

There's no difference. opm8

The 12c rocks. It hasn't changed since it came out in the early 80s for a reason. Download one of the many 12c emulators and play around with it on your computer. Despite it's age and slow speed I love mine. It's like an ancient artifact that's still useful. --opm8

That's strange since your packet size is set by the OS, not an individual application. I think your fix had nothing to do with TWS and that the delays were there before. You just happened to notice it with TWS. opm8

This is the same magazine that several years ago wrote about the coming national panic when oil drops to $5 a barrel. How many rich economists do you know? Oh, and the people walking out on their deposits? Overleveraged morons that couldn't handle a shake-out. Housing markets ebbing...

It's funny because this is what *everyone* is saying. Hmmm, I wonder what that means. --opm8

Prints of 100+ lots go off all the time. Biggest I've seen is 250. If you put in a mkt order at the wrong time, however, be prepared to eat up to 10 ticks. opm8

As long as humans create computers we'll always be able to outsmart them. --opm8

Have you taken your problems up with support? I've found them to be very helpful. --opm8

Yes, it never crashes but it needs to be "reset" in one exception that I've found. I connect to my Windows trading computer from work and when I log out the home system is locked, i.e. you need a password to sign in. So when I get home I have to enter the password with the Windows' computer...

Synergy is an awesome application, imo. I've been using it between my linux and Windows workstations for several years now. Their monitors sit side by side and I use a single keyboard and mouse for both of them. --opm8

You're using only a day session chart. Trader28: On my all sessions chart, however, the 10 min MACD doesn't cross the zero line until the close of the 7:10 - 7:20 bar. Can you post your chart, please? --opm8

Here's some good reading: google "aspartame ant poison." --opm8

Trader28, What do you do when you get an entry signal while you're already in a position? If it's in the same direction do you add another unit and have two levels of targets? I'm assuming you would SAR if the signal is opposite to your position. --opm8