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    Grinding it out, day after day

    Lescor, Do you have a fixed universe of stocks from which you trade everyday (and which would give you signals during the day) or you select stocks for trading every morning again from all stocks available on the market based on some criteria? Are there stocks that are, so to speak, your...
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    Grinding it out, day after day

    Lescor, I presume, that with your amount of capital at IB you should be using their portfolio margin mode. How does it compare with normal RegT margin in real life with your type of strategies? Does it provide significant margin improvement? Thanks.
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    Grinding it out, day after day

    Lescor, What is the reason for having 2 separate accounts with echotrade and IB? I thought that echotrade could provide much better leverage, fees etc? In other words, why do you need the IB account? Thanks.
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    Opening Only's 2010

    Don, once you mentioned, than after getting a fill you have a +12 cents take profit order sent automatically (this part is clear), and you also start "tape reading". My question is: if one is good in "tape reading", why just not use "tape reading" in ordinary trading, outside of context of...
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    Grinding it out, day after day

    Lescor, what technique do you use to enter and exit positions in less liquid stocks? Scale in/out, algo-orders or just plain one huge limit order? Thanks a lot.
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    Opening Only's 2010

    Today 1 fill: CAT, +12 cents, envelope 0.005.
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    Opening Only's 2010

    Don, may I ask you to specify in your messages symbols that got filled and the envelope size? That would be really helpful. I'm also trading your strategy and would like to compare results. Thanks.
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    Call Option on the ES-2NQ futures spread

    How to construct a Call Option on an intermarket spread (say +1ES-2NQ)? So that it would behave the same as if +1ES-2NQ were one symbol? Any help is greatly appreciated.
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    IB: Globex intermarket ES-NQ spread (generic combo not working)

    Hi, guys, I'm trying to create a generic combo consisting of 2 different future contracts trading on Globex, say ES-NQ. When I drag and drop even the first contract (ES) into the generic combo dialog, TWS gives an error box, saying: "Only some US future contracts (CME, ONE, CFE and...
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    IB: Globex intermarket ES-NQ spread (generic combo not working)

    Hi, guys, Is anybody able to create an intermarket generic combo consisting of 2 different future contracts trading on Globex, say ES-NQ? When I drag and drop even the first contract (ES) into the generic combo dialog, TWS gives an error box, saying: "Only some US future contracts (CME...
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