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As a moderator i can say that I've never been asked to edit/moderate anything in favor or against any particular sponsor. IB is easy to both hate and love. In those quiet periods between them fiddling with the back-end software everything can run super smoothly. The suddently one morning...

It think it's possible to find good mentors, and I've certainly managed to connect up with traders significantly more successful than me. But you have to bring something to the table. I've never been asked for anything, but have offered (and delivered) a variety of things in return, such as...

I must be missing something, but just in case: why don't you simply route to ISE in the first place in stead of SMART or CBOE? You choose ISE is the dropdown box for destination.

I'm sure it's fully automatic. I've had a few incidents where i got more fills than expected, and I've generally seen IB liquidate within seconds. In my experience, they only liquidate enough to get below BP, not everything.

Hopefully his customers are laughing all the way to the bank, too :)

One thing to watch out for is how you calculate e.g. the size of the stops. Make sure to use a generic calculations, such as ATR, and not percent or a fixed number of points. NQ and ES are fairly different animals, and I wouldn't be surprised that some systems do fairly differently on them...

Wrong answer, imo. Do the casinos in Las Vegas close down for the day after paying out a jackpot ? Of course not - the trick is to have a small edge and play it as much as you can.

Since this is in "Strategy Trading", I'd like to give what I consider the "obvious" answer: Any valid strategy must have specific exit rules for taking both profits and losses. You need this for the individual security and at the portfolio level. So there is no decision to make. Simply...

Not sure if he's trading stocks, but there are always the bulls/bears: http://www.traderspress.com/categoryResults.php?S_CatID=50&Search.x=35&Search.y=14

let's hope they use the real eSignal API, and not ActiveX. ActiveX is limited to 50 symbols, at least last time i looked.

In response to the character attacks on Murray Ruggiero: In my opinion he's one of the few good system developers "available" to the general public. I've met him once about 10 years ago, and subscribe to future magazine only because he writes articles from time to time. I've found his research...

The only real issue you'll face is the messaging limit of 50 messages/sec. I have found that 25/sec is more realistic. This may not sound like a problem, but with many orders going off at once around e.g. Fed announcements, you need to be program for it. My experience is that IB will...

Nitro, I agree. On my new XEON system there's a BIOS setting that lets the memory controller automatically load adjacent cache lines to help with this. Was actually turned off by default. In my case, I'm floating point limited, which is why the savings of 32bit registers doesn't factor in...

I'm assume you're joking with respect to processing speeds of 2^32 and 2^64 above. Processing speed and throughput is a function of clock speed, memory speed, cache and memory configuration, etc, and not the size of the addressable memory space of the CPU/MMU. The biggest benefit of 64...

FWIW: I've found the XEONs to be signficantly faster for what I do, than equally equipped Pentium systems. (Not arguing with Landis, who gives good advice). I posted comparisons a while back. I can dig them out if there's an interest

I doubt he's "tester". Their ISP are even located in different countries.

Why do you enjoy giving Tums such a hard time? I think he's doing very well keeping up with the threads. I've previously tried to moderate a JH thread and had to give up. We all have our opinions on JH and SPM, but Tums is imo staying neutral. I suggest supporting and encouraging him...

Thank you for your contribution! This is a solid (and simple) application of the original concept.

I do think that Dell had serious quality problems a few years ago. At home I just last week took my old Dell PII/400 MHZ offline - been running flawlessly for ~10 years. With Dell, I've found that it's best to buy the workstations, OptiPlex and high-end laptops.

I have a little data on Dell vs HP desktops from my former company, where i was CIO. I bought about 50 dell desktops and 50 HP desktops. Typically they were ~$1000 with 4 GB of memory, decent CPU, but nothing fancy, After ~4 years, 5 of the Dells were still running. The rest were dead...