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I know the markets will touch 1800 before end of year and I want to be long. And biggest thing is this is just a paper trading journal :D Still, I feel hesitant to buy these highs - human psychology

He was backtesting primarily and was pretty impressed by the 1) ability to quickly backtest complex strategies 2) the integration that RTS has which execution which makes it a breeze to put things into production (his words). He is very comfortable with MATLAB and still spoke highly about...

No personal experience with RTS - one of my friends worked on it and was pretty impressed. So, can't give you any color on that. Sorry

better than RTS suit of software? better than Xtrader for execution? have no experience with Deltix but have heard good things about it.

out of other 3 from 1742 at 1740 for 6 points = 300 USD So, total profits = 2250 + 300 = 2550 USD Account Equity = 43,600 + 2,550 = 46,150 USD

covered these 3 shorts at 1736 for 15*3 = 45 points = 2250 USD Still have 3 original shorts from 1742

Bob, today we were discussing this in the morning in the TWS thread. I have been thinking on this. Talking especially about you, I think the problem is in mindset. since you have been making money for last 10+ years in a very low risk way, its now just very hard to accept a different mindset of...

Do you use T&S and market depth both in conjunction? can you give you some specific examples please.

1) cost of business - commissions, spread 2) over trading 3) not having a plan 4) not following the plan

how do you know this? what is your source of information? Do you personally know anyone. Please note I am not saying you are wrong, I rather will guess the same, but just want to know your source of info.

Will give you some perspective http://www.elitetrader.com/vb/showthread.php?threadid=258816

ask IB, seems like a data problem from exchange (LSE side for some stocks), since in T&S bid-ask are visible on the last column and also on your first attachment on the left side, bid-ask size is given.

please also post screenshot of market depth window

does anyone has a pdf copy of this book that they don't mind sharing. I would appreciate. Thanks.

Bob, The more I read about your experiences, the more I appreciate how hard it is to be a day trader and make money consistently all these software issues, computer problems, IT techsh*t problems, along with the things that are needed to be a good day trader like good execution, research...

Add 3 more short at 1751, already have 3 short from 1742

as far as usefulness of level2, i think its still useful but god dammit who knows really i for myself have not done any testing yet to know whether it is useful or not. A big reason is all the retail junk software out there like MC, NT, Amibroker etc. fail miserably when anything with level 2...

simple but very useful suggestion use at least 5 min bars, better if you use it in conjunction with 1 hr bar, and increasing the holding period of trade from minutes (I am assuming that your holding period would be in minutes since you trading using 1 min chart) to hours. Trust me your...

peterfly has gone nuts. Its high time we need an IB competitor http://elitetrader.com/vb/showthread.php?s=&threadid=278006

New Trade: Short 3 ES at 1742