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I completely agree with you, recently there have been some excellent threads, but just like trading I think message boards go through cycles. Sometimes they are terrific, sometimes they are awful and most of the time they are somewhere in between. Lets hope that the thread quality will...

Hi Trade4me, nice trade, you certainly called this move well, and got a great entry, however I was wondering if we might use this thread to get a bit of discussion going on trade management With this in mind could you answer the following questions. 1. Your initial stop was 32, have you...

Pull up a 1 minute chart of HRC and you will notice a huge drop in the price during the last minute of trading, has anybody got any idea why?

I use IB but for swing trading (2 to 5 days) not day trading. Because I can't get access to the markets during the first couple of hours of the trading day, I think trailing stop orders maybe useful for me. Can anyone who has had experience with these type of orders for swing trading over a...

Now I admit my somewhat addled brain ain't what it used to be, but if I am not mistaken, the Tuesday after the '87 crash was the biggest percentage up day ever. Is this correct? That is how I remember it anyway. Anyone have accurate numbers on this? My records show that the DOW closed down...

There must be something in this Plunge Protection Team story they have even started talking about it on CNBC and those guys really know what they are talking about NOT :cool:

Is it possible to create a system that wins 60% of the time and has winners 3 times as large as losers? Nope it's extremely unlikely you will ever find a system that has a 60% win rate and an average win which is 3 times bigger than the average loss. There tends to be a trade off which takes...

David, like you I only use stop orders and not stop limit, I also only trade NYSE stocks and not NASDAQ, and also I swing trade over say 2 to 5 days and not day trade. My experience has been really good with using IBs stops, I get a bit of slippage sometimes but also get price improvement...

The following is now posted on the IB site For NYSE Stocks All order types are accepted through Smart Order Routing (non-marketable orders will not be routed to the NYSE). Only marketable orders are accepted through direct order routing to the NYSE.

Kastro, have you read this thread? http://www.elitetrader.com/vb/showthread.php?s=&threadid=5875

Yes Mike, I have a break point written into my trading plan. If my draw down reaches 20% at any time, I will stop trading for at least one month and take that time to analyse my past trades. I have been fortunate that in nearly two years of trading I have not hit the 20% level.

Mike, you said you started day trading earlier this year, how many months exactly did you trade for. The reason I am asking is have you noticed any improvement in your trading over that period. Even though you have lost $5K overall did the amount you lost lessen as time progressed or did...

Hi, are you the same DrSynthetic that I used to read on a Yahoo clubs message board some time back, I think the club was called VV users club, but was shut down . If you are what was the name of the options course you had taken?

Several weeks ago some dirty son of a b**** posted a link to an electronic trading book on this site. The book had been hacked into and two viruses placed in it. From what I can remember one of these viruses was a key logger which had originally been written in Russia. Baron did a trace on...

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I recently sent this question to the IB help desk. <<<I know odd lot orders are not available from you for NYSE stocks and for things like the QQQs. If I therefore want to buy say the QQQs I have to buy at least 100 shares, however if I want to buy more than 100 what is the next amount I am...

dozu888 wrote <<<latest issue of "Active Traders" magazine features an article about AmiBroker... gonna play with it for a few days, looks like it has all the features needed to backtest anything on EOD basis.. >>> Would you mind now posting your thoughts on AmiBroker.

I forgot to ask, and sorry if this is obvious to most of you, but whats the address for the usenet archives. I've tried www.usenet.com but that took me to a site that didnt look like it was the correct one. BB

Thank you dottom for a really informative post, this really is the best trading message boad site on the web, there are so many knowledgable people here willing to help. BB

Thanks for the link to that Vikana, I had heard that he had been in some trouble, but I also know some traders that were very please with the trading information they had received from him in the past. If you have any further links I would be most greatful, by the way nice to see another...