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I always use stop-limits with my GLOBEX orders. It's my trading style and prevents any hesitations. It's essential for my sanity...

Thanks for that link. Indeed, it's wide. My limit portion of the stop-limit was only about 0.3 away from the market. Edit: I just sent an e-mail to IB asking for details. Anyway, no harm was done and I re-entered the order manually. Initially , I thought my API link software was doing...

IB just sent the following message : -------------- Dear Trader, Please be aware that the following order(s) have been canceled at the request of the Globex Control Center. The order(s) were: Buy # GEZ5 @ 96.15 Globex has determined that the limit price is outside of the allowable...

Oopps that's right. I forgot that.

IB chart is not showing that spike. I think some of CME's feeds might be off.

Bernd, Isn't that symbol ZN?

It looks like I got another spike from Tradestation today. Did anyone else see it too?

FredBloggs, It's the globex contract. Thanks.

GEZ05 Tradestation data 2/28/05 I'm trying to figure out if these mini spikes are real or bogus. Has anyone with other data vendor seen these mini-spikes in their data yesterday? My timescale is set for PST. Thanks.

Yes, especially the insanity episodes completely vanished--So I can focus my mental energy for more fun things like ladies (especially the younger ones) :)

csaunders, The equity curve is smoother. I'm not having these occasional big drawdown days anymore. As I start trading more products, the equity curve should get smoother. The system stops trading after certain loss/day. I'm still trading intraday. As you mentioned, watching the ticks go by...

csaunders, Actually, it's just the opposite. I can say that I have only 10% of the stress relative to discretionary trading. There are no could have, should haves and self beating with auto trading. This way also I am much more consistent. Also, there's no overtrading. Eventually, I'll start...

Hi guys, I'm still monitoring this thread. I got busy with coding the control software for IB API. I stopped system trading FX futures for now since it only traded during the US session. I'm monitoring my sytem on Euro, BP and Yen futures. I'll revise the system so it also trades the European...

Thanks Aaron for taking time to answer all of these questions. I wish you a trading year with minimal drawdown :)

Thanks Aaron. One final question for you. With your LLC, I guess you're paying yourself some salary and thus creating earned income. So you're able to deduct health care related expenses and contribute to an IRA. Are the profits from your portion of the pool treated as capital gains, and...

Aaron, Thanks for the detailed explanation. If you have time, could you please let me know where I can get information for what can be done legally to reduce the tax burden for an LLC running a commodity pool. For instance, I'm interested in the case of both US and foreign based investors, if...

Aaron, FYI, your web site is down. What is the difference between COMMODITY TRADING ADVISOR and COMMODITY POOL OPERATOR? I see that you registered for both. Thanks.

I also use TS8 , IB and my custom VB program. It works great. TS is getting more reliable compared to couple of years ago.

Aaron, Thank you for pointing out that clause. I completely forgot about it.

I'm aware of IB's Advisor accounts but for paperwork, trade execution and monitoring purposes pooling the money in one account seems to be more efficient. Is the following legal in US ? 1)Pool money from friends and family in one account opened under my name. 2)Trade futures only and...