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Basically you guys are just scalping for a couple points in the direction of the short term trend? Whats the big fascination; I don't think this is revolutionary.. Anyway, the key is the system and the discipline to operate with out screwing up, which may be the Holy Grail to trading...

GG, Can you import .ELA files into Tradestation6? I'll send you some if you can.

Another one bits the dust... But I wish you luck in whatever you do and I hope you come back to trading. :)

Nobody is trading them accept for spreads.

If only I were gay :confused:

I thought you said the same thing last week at 900! Yes we may go up.......or not, maybe buyers around 833? or maybe not..

Crazy people with a lot of money..... ----------------------- really its self explanatory, think of an auction; people bid and offer and cancel and get filled, etc., also automated market making computers I'm sure.

Did you go through the entire HELP manual that is in the program? Did you read the printed manual?

Pats will test your app for conformance. If it passes you recieve a "confirmation" number and you also have a ID for your app. You then tell your Clearing firm(FCM) these two numbers and they then can enable your app to run on there Pats servers.

are you talking about US Notes? Electronically they trade from 8pm(or 7pm?) - 5pm Eastern Time the non electronic are 8:20am-3pm eastern

Yes, I've had this control for 8 months now but I haven't got around to working with it. If I ever make a PATS(J-Trader) interface I'll post it here.

Yeah, what makes you think people trade that? that is ridiculous to me. ...well maybe not ridiculous, but for me its too much, anyway.

No.

I agree with this. I think firms are making two sided markets in Dow Mini but it is still electronic and if they have a bid you can take it. Now, of course they may only have that bid for a short time so be quick!

What do you mean by they back away from their quotes? A/C/E is an electronic matching system. If a bid or offer is their you can take it.

I'm the first to admit that I'm no expert, but GG, you are very correct in saying that it is very hard. It's very easy to come up with winning trades or winning days; but the hardest part is finding that positive expectancy(EDGE) that you can *CONSISTENTLY* achieve and carry out on a...

Two little examples: ------------------------------------------- 100 trades: 50 winners 50 losers average win = 2 average loss = 1 YOU HAVE POSITIVE EXPECTANCY ----------------------------------------------------- 100 trades: 40 winners 60 losers average win = 5 average loss 1 YOU...

All that stuff can be done. Look through the archives of the omega list. http://www.purebytes.com/cgi-local/swish/swish-cgi.pl off the top of my head maybe something like: If time>=1555 and time<1600 then begin If marketposition=1 and close < entryprice(0)*1.02 then exitlong("l_exit")...

I still don't understand what type of stop orders you are talking about. Can you give another example?

Lewis Borsellino is one of the big local traders in the S&P. I believe he as been there for twenty some years.