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ids, Would you guys consider a "non-live" data offering? I sleep during pit hours and don't want to daytrade the pits with you guys but I would like to be able to eoday trade using IB. Its helpful to be able to study the price patterns on 30m bars so a backfilled 15m (or longer)...

No offence lilduckling but this might well have been an even better post. Great to see no "method bigotry" but just a good description of the evolution needed over time. A great thread for new entrants - it really does take time for all but the luckiest.

Just illustrating the reality that floor access will create for IB and IB's customers. For a bunch of people used to the relative honesty of electronic markets the NY Commodities Floors will be eye opening. You're right about choice though. I don't trade coffee (or lumber) any more ...

LOL ... too true ... get ready for a whole new generation of complaints IB. You don't get stops elected on electronic markets, prices trade worse and then better than the stops, and then the 5 minutes later when the price has collapsed to awful levels the coffee broker finally gets back from...

Surfer seems to have clarified his approach as mainly applying to indexes. Not so much to commodities, currencies or individual stocks. To some extent I agree with him but I have found that if you look at a range of timeframes for different entities (indexes are almost the least trendy...

Thanks guys.

Question for Def or others One characteristic I notice when trading HSI on IB is quite a large number of high volume bars with the volume generated by a small number of "off dom" trades. These are often in the 100+ contracts range. I ask this question because there have been quite a large...

Noting that bigmrfranks first post was this month and was asking about possible futures brokers one might question how much experience he has with brokers. I don't know about the artful dodger. FWIW, if you don't need handholding (maybe bmf doesn't but I wonder from checking his earlier...

I would have thought that if you wanted hand holding then mb might be a better choice as hand holding has always been ibs weakness. I'd be surprised if IB wasn't cheaper for most retail traders but there may be some areas where that is true (i dont know mbs price structure). TWS isn't a...

LMAO. Mokwit owes you no apology ... but how many posts someone has made isn't the issue; its the way "new members" spring up on a topic making one suspicious of fakes and collusion amongst people with a similar interest. Roberk, fwiw, different IPs doesn't confirm different people just...

Sleep depends on your brain chemistry - like anything else different people get different effects from each drug. Wish coffee and I were as compatible at night time. Won't cure cancer sadly - not even the famous coffee enemas.

I think you may have an Ensign problem not an IB problem. I've been using the backfill with Sierrachart and it been pretty good to date.

No its not. For futures trading that is electronic IB is recommended by many. It has good fees, very fast execution, high reliability and supports a very wide range (ie lots of world markets). The data you need to support your decisions is also free in many cases. But :-) For...

Many of the possible support and resistance lines (fibs/pivots/trendlines) have validity of a kind. I'm not sure which ones relate to some fundamental issue and which relate to the amount of support they get from traders looking at them. The funny thing is that you can find lots of denial...

Let me illustrate one way in which "averaging down" can be a good strategy (ignoring commissions, failure to fill etc just to illustrate the point). Say that contract X is worth buying when it breaks above 100. To allow for normal volatility your stop must be at 90. Your target is (say)...

LOL, I finally got motivated to look at his posts. My guess. He has no money at all. Looks like he bought the "forex is easy" argument and opened an account with Saxo. He discovered its hard but blames everyone else but himself. It seems he looked at the other bucket shops and doesn't...

Wouldn't IB take you? Did they fire you for incompetence? Whats really motivating this stream of bullshxt abuse?

Well I'll have one more go. Note that, not being insane, I don't believe that what I say will convince bigbird here of anything ... jim is right ... its simply that someone else who doesn't know IB and thinks Bigbird might know what hes talking about might be reading the thread. 1) If...

You might consider three other options that work with IB which some prefer to those quoted above. 1) I use SierraChart which is about $9 per month and (imo) has a more useful feature set and to my taste better interface than QT. It also has a LOT of programability if you want to do things...

The joy of working for someone like IB must in part come from interacting with some of the tossers who come up in response to questions like this. Have a good weekend guys. Keep up the good work. :)