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They are NOT similar The median of 100 homes sold for $100k and 1 home sold for $1 million is $550k. The average of 100 homes sold for $100k and 1 home sold for $1 million is ( 100 x $100k + 1 x $1 million) / 101 = $108.9k The median is a dirty little method the industry uses to mask...

Care to share your method or your mentor's name? RoughTrader

This is f**king unacceptable. Right before the end of session TWS loses connection to CME and CBOT and I quit TWS and can't log back in again. WTF IB????? RoughTrader

The worst for me is taking a drawdown and then facing weeks of untradable market chop. Drawdowns will happen, but what's frustrating is having no decent setups to work with to get out of the drawdown. I wonder how that guy who made the thread "strategy to trade future" is doing. In one month...

Man give the guy a break. He's a bull, and he's sticking to his positions. I don't see how that warrants all the flak going around here. Leave him be, he's not hurting anyone. RoughTrader

What "dip" are you talking about? The e-minis are thin and sideways today. RoughTrader

There will be no wealth creation for any of us if this market continues to chop sideways :( . RoughTrader

I could be mistaken, but I remember Hubert telling me a while back it took him longer than 2 years to become profitable. He mentioned, in his words, that the beginning years of his trading were characterized as throwing good money away steadily, while "not even turning a dime in profit"...

Aww, come on. I have hard time believing that. I still think for any electronic market, bots are still the minority even though they are gaining more traction. The ER2 is neither superior nor inferior to other trading instruments. It has its own place. It's volume is more suited towards...

100% sure that will happen. The kicker is, when?

Oh, I'm sorry, that was me and my 100 computers messing with you :D . Seriously, it seems like for every one day we get a half-sized move, we get 5 more days of dead chop. The air is getting a little thin up here... RoughTrader

Live and learn. Systems have good periods and bad. Tough part is building confidence to trust your system through thick and thin. RT

Are you trading live again frost? RoughTrader

If you use esignal, ninjatrader might be a possibility for you. I use NT with TradeStation to send automated orders to my IB account. I wrote a custom script using functions that access NT's .dll file to actually perform the strategy automation. The script contains a trademanager based...

Hi TraderMojo, If IB's feed does not provide ticks, I'm wondering how other charting apps like sierra or multicharts is able to do it... Like I mentioned, I'm thinking to use java for this project. I use tradestation as my primary datafeed for the e-minis, so another route to take for...

Hi dcraig, I'd like to use java. Do you have any code that might help me? Thanks, RoughTrader

Hi all, I'm trying to build a program that will construct chart bars in real time from IB's data feed. For example, once the program has established a connection to IB's feed and is actively listening for raw streaming ticks, I'd like to build the following OHLC bars: 1) x-minute bars...

Buy a new computer. Simple. RoughTrader

Is a CTA license required to manage money even for relatives / family members? It would really suck to get into trouble with the law on this one, so I want to be careful here.... RoughTrader

Hi all, I'm starting to put together a managed futures fund for my relatives. I've only been trading my own accounts up until now, so I'm not very familiar with the best way to set up accounts so that I can manage a pool of money. Is anyone familiar with the proper way to do this? Thanks...