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VXX and VXZ haven't been around long enough to be tested in a bear market. They both were conceived basically a month before the market bottomed in March of '09. So while they surely will not capture the full moves of a rising VIX, there ought to be good enough moves over the course of any...

You might also consider VXX or VXZ as alternatives to rolling futures every month. I believe VXZ is a little better correlated, but you still will never capture the exact % move of the VIX.

No problem. And yes, I understand. Then it might not be a bad idea to forward test in sim for a couple months, and even if you don't take all the trades at least keep a detailed spreadsheet on entries, exits, MFE and MAE to at least have some data to fall back on. The other thing I might...

Hello darktrader. It's clear you've worked very hard and are very determined at this point. Is your strategy successful in a "live backtest", meaning going through charts over an extended period one day at a time and applying your rules consistently? The problem with truly discretionary...

NoD sorry I missed your post from yesterday. Anyway, my answer: ... close enough for jazz! :D (and btw, still not too late to get short!)

1) Open MS "Paint" 2) click on your IB statement to activate that window 3) press "Alt + Print Screen" (PS key is in upper right corner of keyboard) ... this copies the active window to the virtual clipboard (invisible until you paste it somewhere) 4) paste into the Paint window (Cntrl + v...

The statements are pretty much organized by instrument, aren't they? Couldn't you just take a screen shot of the section of the statements you want?

Anybody swinging this thing based on Goldman's call last week? Just curious.

Yes, June volume eclipsed May as of today.

Nice looking setup xtk. Did you mention what model those monitors are, and are they all identical? I'm at the stage where my monitors will be hard to find exact replacements for once they die ... curious about how you deal with out of production models when one needs replacing.

Thanks. ... Exactly. Well, magically when I installed the driver for the 2nd "new" card (the PCI dual head) all the monitor slots showed up in the setup app! So I'm pleased to report that at least for now I have the ability to run 6 monitors. Got 5 hooked up live ... found a 6th to match my...

Update: I put 2 new (refurbished) cards in today. The dual head PCI card works, the single head PCIE16 DMS with the splitter does not. So, having this new one plus my other card that always worked, at least I'm back to 4 monitors again. I may try some other things with the PCIE16 card...

It shouldn't need to be "fixed and updated" so often though. Get a solid working platform and leave it alone so traders can concentrate on trading "on automatic". I'll bet if IB polled its clients a good 85% would say they'd prefer after IB fixes all the bugs that they leave TWS alone for a...

Well I guess that's 2 endorsements for the Nvidia Quadro NVS cards. Thanks Scataphagos and bighog, I will pursue that avenue on future rigs, or if I totally strike out here with the Radeons. Just to recap, I'd been using the VTek Radeon X1300 dual heads (2 of them, so 4 monitors total) for...

I have complained about several issues, mostly TWS bugs or undesireable changes in an update, and eventually the issues were resolved. When it's been something blatantly erroneous in the code, such as the recent problem where using dropdown menus on the main TWS page was causing erratic...

Thanks ... that's probably what I should've done, but too late now. I figured going for an exact replacement would be the simplest and most hassle-free in terms of compatibility. But I didn't count on them being this difficult to track down. Right now I've got a Radeon single-head PCIEx16...

If you violated your rules or your stop I would probably bail on at least 1/2. Taking a hit for the sake of it will help insure you avoid these mistakes in the future. If it comes back, you're glad you didn't sell all, and if it goes lower, you'll have some ammo to add again if it seems...

At this point I'd almost be ready to take you up on that. I'm currently waiting for the 3rd card I ordered ... a VTKX1300PCIEDMS with a single DVI port that functions as 2 with a splitter cable. A tech from Tech For Less assured me this was my best option, as the compatible cards with 2 ports...

Sorry, just saw your post with the pictures. Very nice Boli ... I take it you design trading comps for other people from the sound of it (?)

Ah, muat be exclusive to W7 ... 916.5 loads fine in XP.