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I've gotta say: I get good fills. I get great responsiveness. I use IB Chat (but my browser is set up to let it work properly). and its all good. Its not easy to master all the things you need to do to get trading/working with your broker working ... but IB are good and respond to the...

With a reasonable number of clients I suspect you could profit from that by just rolling the dice. Its a little like the spam predictions where you must get a percentage or wins ... only applied after the fact to make you appear "more honest." Edit: I mean oddtraders strategy

Thats a good post regarding the "physical" properties of the markets. And I largely agree with it at that level. But to some extent it ignores the "psychological" properties of the markets - that they are basically made up of large numbers of people interacting about their instantaneous...

Other than the great news about Vic - a blowout doesn't make a bad trader after all - Surfer raises an interesting point about the thread. I think that there two interelated issues here. I agree with Surfer that I need to see and look forward to what I want in future to give me overall...

It can be greed. But it can also be fear. The feel of each is slightly different.

If you get bored you can trade HSI, SGXNK or SPI in the evening hours.

LMAO. I have to say that I dont know whether "it" works or not. What I do does work but whose to say that its technical analysis. MS deliberately started this discussion with facetious arguments and in his typical old style didn't define the point being debated. Seems to keep the thread...

As one who has a high regard for both def and mokwit I think the tone/content was misinterpretted. While on the thread: a) I do love HSI ... and the new 30% lower commissions! b) My connectivity has been 100% in the period since the last discussion. Regards to all.

Yawn.

Having recently reread the book he also gives respect to risk management - his examples of flaming star traders never understood risk management. And again the long lived trendfollowers live by risk management. Actually, thinking about his flameout examples, many (most?) of them were...

uninvited guest ... other than your excellent choice of name ... you are giving yourself a bad name. Why not stop wasting thread space and be uninvited somewhere else?

Excellent post darkhorse. Does anyone know how Surfer is trading now if its now in some sense technical analysis (ie price/volume/time without fundementals based)?

LOL Surfer, you really are incorrigible. Last I heard you were trading a form of technical analysis - what are you doing now? Uninvited guest: if you keep behaving like a halfwit people will suspect that that's the best that you can give.

Hey Surfer, Good to see you allowed to post as yourself again. This whole argument is flawed. What you've done is the old "I would like to negotiate with an mba because hes so intelligent that if you keep asking him for reasons why, he will eventually come up with some that you can knock...

Smalltrader, Everything depends on exactly how you trade. This (not infrequently repeated) discussion just raises the issue of how IB generates "IB Ticks." To optimize internet traffic they don't send a data packet for every true tick but bundle them and send a maximum of 5 packets per...

Who cares about tradestation anymore (since they reneged on fixing TS2000i). They are so US centric that ... well ... who gives a ... u know.

Ensign support is excellent. I have used both ensign and sierrachart with IB and would happily use either. The reason I went from ensign to sierra was when I realized the extra features were not part of my trading style. So if you need the extra features, ensign, if not you can save a fair...

and NT5 with similar memory use for one superdom only.

NT4 --- only 4.5M with one SuperDom :-)

Nice hypothesis but I suspect the failing is more likely to lead to the negativity rather than the other way around. Not that I wish to imply that negativity implies that one is an unsuccessful trader - I think that this game attracts social misfits etc and we see them all at T2W and ET. I...