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my impression is that esignal is used by people who do not trade, but just play at trading and therefore dont really know if it is good or not data feeds must be timely and reliable, but unless you are running arbitrage strategies, you need a good charting package, which esignal certainly did...

freetrader where are you based?

esignal quotes and their back up has always been rubbish - they even advertised that they had european stocks when they did not have any history servers - they are out to give the least and charge as much as they can they might reply on here as a PR issue, but if you were a customer calling...

you get what you pay for!

if you feel you need to ask that question - perhaps its time for a holiday?

the issue should be wether trailing stops are of any value or not and since they are not of any value to a successful trader, it would be probably better to let rookies have them, so that they can get one more reason that they are not making money, out of the way the armegedon risk of...

which broker offers a trailing stop? and do any professional traders use trailing stops ( as opposed to placed stops) as part of their strategy? i use placed stops to close postions at key levels - and i move the stop behind the market - but the stop is at the next important key level -...

someone should remind india and pakistan that they are actually right next to each other - they better close the door after they throw a bomb - or else they are going to get the fallout back in their own front room

the key is to try everything and find what works for you

the point is - that it is not being done by everyone - since markets move erractically - it is hard to keep updating a trailing stop manually - and this potential problem is new to markets now since it is only executable with trading platforms and this is only a theoretical problem - but...

IB are not interested in trailing stops for business reasons - and their reasons make sense - though its hard to know if the practical issues would be as serious as the theortetical ones -but, if i owned a brokerage - i would not allow trailing stops a stop is only the "stop" the trader...

AIQ has got to be the most useless software ever with the poorest most inept support

If you feel that markets are random, which they are not, and you still want to trade, you should not take outright postitions, but only do arbitrage trades, where market movement knowledge can be replaced by market inefficiency knowledge - and if you feel markets are random and efficient -...

thereuare i actually use a methodology in essence similar to the one you describe - based on calculations on data - but i feed it with one than one data feed - especially as i have a reasonable understanding of data feed issues and i would never have been able to get to this level of how...

the difference between a succesful trader and a losing trader is experience - and an experienced trader uses the fact that markets are not random in order to make money

thereuare if you planned to use the data on the IB TWS - which is purely a feed from Globex which is supplied in numerical form - on what methodology did you plan to base your trading decisions

succesful traders know markets are definetly not random and perform to set parameters

alain gdd are not a prop firm - they are brokers - and what are your concerns and what are the mysteries? gdd are not "cheaper" than IB - they just have a different business model which offers the same lower rates for high volume that everyone else offers but what do you know about them?

the trading platform is not an issue - since once you are experienced and making bucks - with skill as opposed to luck - you will be trading high volume and will gravitate away from Pats type plarforms and retail rates - to Trading Technologies - where the upfront costs of TT become unimportant...

one day there will be a law protecting us from everything possible - no one will be able to move for fear of some law or other - and the very people who will be turned into vegetables are the ones who are pushing for it - you got sense - use it - if you haven't - learn from your mistakes - but...