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That would explain the rush to hold up hands.

Yes... I use rather different period numbers for different time frames for the same indicator. I'd be surprised if most people don't. I left reading candles behind by charting 1 second data. A lot more intuitive to read and easier to learn a "feel" for the price movement for the item you're...

It's not. At least not as far as I can see it. Early on in trading I was once reluctant to take a small loss, so it got larger, and larger, and larger. Just enough regular repeats of pause & waffle in price on the way down to let me "believe" it would recover. So doubling down when it looked...

Seconds? Minutes? Hours? Days? Or is it the frogs and 42, where we have an answer but no context?

With the police/garda taking so many ballots away, kinda hard to do a recount...

I remember after a long period of healthy up days, when I had a $50 day: 'you mean I sat here all day in this chair for $50...!'

I don't think that is what he meant, it appears that he's pointing out that "Trend Trading" is trading a trend over a longer period.

Before you get too far along, you should find out what native order types and IB order types are offered. If your stop order of choice isn't available natively on the exchange you intend to trade, then an IB order type or a soft-stop are your choices. Interactive Brokers may simulate certain...

I'll have to defer to your knowledge of correct terminology, as I don't understand your use of "legitimate" (doesn't meet the definition of Trend Trading?) nor "necessity". I trade the price movements (trends?) of a much smaller timeframe (seconds, minutes, hours). I identify and ride as many of...

One thing. I believe there's a discrepancy in the way I take profit compared to the majority of those Trend Trading. I could easily be wrong, but I get the strong impression that other trend traders tend to have a profit target for each trade/position and harvest profit that way. I do not...

Correct - at the upper most and most naive-view. Except that is over simplified and how trend trading would appear to a novice or someone who got a partial explanation of trend trading. Perhaps someone started explaining at the simple and didn't get into the details. Correct, if you've got poor...

I believe the truely successful are security aware and are keeping their head down. No?

Why develop a platform that has order execution and the IP containing strategy exposed to each other? Structure it with a platform that handles all of the API stuff, including order submissions, executions, etc., the whole position maintaining ensemble. Call it a Position-Management platform...

I'm going to say that I think structures along that line is a much better way of structuring things anyway, as I'm currently refactoring to do it it provides your algo code some independence from the broker API. But then, my Java platform got blown out of the water by my upgrading to a new API...

I replaced an array of four 1920x1200 28" (27.25" viewable, 23" wide) LCD monitors with a single 55" 4k (3840x2160) LED TV. The viewable width on the 55" is nearly two inches wider than two of the array side by side. I lost some vertical resolution (array at 3840x2400 vs. 4k 3840x2160) and...

I wish. When I looked at that some years ago, the testing requirement before a broker would let you run your FIX platform against their FIX interface was prohibitive. These days, any open source base FIX platforms available?

I'm smack in the middle of extracting embedded API calls, due to stepping forward some versions of an API. I know better, so I can't believe I didn't structure my code with a clean interface from the start. I'll see how much of a performance hit I take with the extra layer, but it will make...

Nearly live. IB API SPY Level 1 no live tick, they provide their "latest" value every quarter second

I'm calculating and displaying custom indicators that I developed (hence, no one offers). Will calculating an indicator constitute "non-display"?

I trust you saved a copy of the file before you changed it. Compare to see if you changed anything else by accident. Also, did you provide the correct unit specifier ("k", "m", "g"). If IB's recommended value didn't work, I suggest you take it up with them. By "the number 768", does that mean...