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Come on guys, it is natural for gangof4 to vent after a relentless day. We all had the experience. Show some sympathy , you may need it one day later. And what's more, learn lessons together with the original poster. What else you expect from coming to this forum ?

Hi, gangof4 Just read this. My condolence to your loss. I still have memory of your last hedge of unclosed position of HSI with STW. Understanding STW has been much stronger due to the stepping down of the unpopular current leader. But did you consider hedging with SGXNK, it was in line with...

looks like several systems running at the same time, is this simulated trading or real one ?

Moving average ? umm, maybe I should study them.

Maybe you did not backtested the strategy long enough before putting them into action. If your strategy can fit the market environment of 2004,2005,2006, they have a much stronger chance of doing well now. The nature of the market your are trading (HSI ) has not changed from the day it was...

so what value is good for this configuration ? 1 tick or zero tick ?

This week is the first week of my trading after a three-month leave, I upgraded to TWS v882 and found my excecution is MUCH MUCH WORSE than before. ( Also found that my autotrading codes do not work normally with this TWS version , had to switch to manual trading. ) Heavy fighting to keep my...

I have a simple question regarding IB orders sent through TWS: In TWS configuration--order--order defaults, there is a choice "Order origin ", you can set it as "customer" , or you can set it as "Firm". I did not notice this choice available in old versions, and it is my knowledge for...

I don't trade nor invest in Chinese stock markets, I am a futures/options player targeting Asian exchanges.

How can a foreigner trade Thai futures ? through what brokerage ? thanks

oops, just was able to get out with a 960 points profit I shorted last friday Still I have to say, I don't like surprise like this IB, do you homework better !

I have overnight HSI positions and can not get out, and the market drop 700 points, what should I do now ?!

oops, what a drastic drop ! IB really sucks this time for HSI traders !

And I just found that I can not wind back to TWS 872.6 any longer. No toolbars, no login status/server time line. Just hope the data problem got solved so that I can trade tomorrow, or I will take a day off.

Today I found the excecution report of my standalone TWS 878.5 came back very slow, it's scary for scalping. Also there were some pinkouts. I need to wind back TWS on one of my computers to 872.6 tonight, I have never seen slow excecution report on 872.6

diversify the markets

kiwi thanks for your remind , but currently I am still not using sierrachart cuz IB TWS chart is good enough for my discretionary setup. I just hope there is an option for TWS refresh rate...

Well, I have to admit I am not good at staring at screen all day long.:-) My trading style is automatic system trading, so usually I do not open booktrader and most of the time during the session, I do not even stay beside the computer. But during volatile days I do open booktrader and see...

Is it possible to add options for cutting the refresh rate back to as slow as before ? The current rate is too fast for my eyes to handle.

Thanks Don, I will check with IB .