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I have never seen anything like that. I have had BT loose connection to TWS but never a delay. Lots of my trades don't even last 20 seconds. On chop days I feel like a long term investor if my trade lasts longer than a minute. LOL a 20 second delay would be nuts :confused:

A hedge fund can carry a stock both long and short but it is still illegal to sell the long position on a down tick to get short. This is sometimes done in 2 separate accounts to hide the trade but is against sec rules. I really doubt hedge funds practice this. I looked into this a few years...

Is it possible to have an order on IB that would be as follows. (This order could be placed with some other front end.) Es currently at 900 put a buy stop at 902. a sell stop at 898. each one of these orders would have to be bracket type that had a stop and target attached once triggered...

Thanks for the info on this. I think you could have could have made your point with out your last remark, but thanks just the same. Everyone please understand that this Trade is just something that we have played with, Not studied in depth. But so far it shows some promise. I am looking...

Kap, I have tried the straddle play in past years but in my opinion in most cases you loose when you are a buyer of options. I agree that if you only did this on days that you suspected a large move in the market and went deep in the money on both sides you could make $. The problem is that...

I would like an option that would close my trade at a set time if my target was not reached. just set to (close at 2:50) I sometimes take a futures position and leave for rest of the trading day. If we are in a tight range and my target was not reached but my stop also wasn't triggered I...

Size.. using 1 account is the method we would like to use. just never tried it that way. It would make it easier for the average trader with just 1 futures account. I seems that on days that the system had a winner that we would at least save the commissions on side that got stopped out...

So far we have not done anything with moving the stop on a trade that is now in the money. The original idea was that this system trade would be automatic and simple with no discretionary moves on our part. On several days a 3.75 winning trade has turned into a 2 point looser because we just...

A fellow trader and my self have been playing with a simple system and would love the help of some people who could backtest this and tweak it a bit. It currently has a 60% + winning record. The trade: at 10:PM using 2 different futures accounts we take 2 positions in the ES. 1 long and...

I trade the YM every day and have had this happen several times. This really pissed me off. Your post explains alot. I dont see this as a big problem as far as my stops and targets but I always felt like I got ripped off when I got stopped out 1 or 2 points worse than my low on the chart. I...

Your very convincing testimonial almost has me motivated to try it. What level would I need to be able to scale in and out of a position. also, can I run multiple programs at once so I can take trades in 2 or 3 different futures at same time. Thanks for any help.

I agree that the spreads are terrible. and not getting any better. The only way I get decent fills is to be a bit early and be selling into a rally when shorts are bleeding and vice versa. They really remind me of when I used to day trade options. If you can see what direction the market is...

I have been using CCI for about a year and it works quite well. However when market is in a tight range going sideways the CCI can become very overreactive and will give you false signals. I use a 34 ema to confirm trend. also helps to look at longer term charts. jump up to 9 or 13 min to...

go to one chicago and nqlx web site to get tickers. SSFs work pretty good for swing trades but the spread is a bit wide for fast day trades or scalping. You can buy or sell out a month or 2 to avoid having to roll over to next month right away. And yes they follow the the stock or index...

I started my put collection yesterday... added a bit this morning. Octobers should do the trick?? Happy trading all

Woodie's room is in HotComm. should be info below. http://woodiescciclub.com/

Alot of us in Woodies room are trading using only Sierra charts and IB data feed. This only costs about $6.00 a month and has lots of indicators including the 25 least square MA and the CCI. Sierra also lets you overlay the CCI so you can have the 6 period and 14 period in the same chart region...

thanks Steve

I have done this with success but I prefer to sell naked when the market is low and volatility is high. Example: When QQQ was trading 20. and volatility was high I sold 15. and 18. puts on the Qs. I didn't want to chase the stock up so selling puts was the answer for me. I would have bought...

I just down graded my Qcharts to live charts from the Q intermediate because I am using only sierra now for futures. I really like sierra but it took me a while to get used to the settings etc. My only complaint is that you must have IB running to get chart data and once in while I have those...