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10110 status light lets me know I'm connected to eSignal. Broker lets me know I'm connected to IB. When I start trading, both lights will be lit. :D

Maybe he should charge you to read my posts! :mad:

Sorry, I've reached my quota for the day.

That was beyond fast. That was Hyper-market on crack. I'm not even sure IB's computers would have had time to execute stops with that whipsawing. I can't imagine big-boys could execute trades that quickly -- unless it was some sort of computer aided trading. It was just moving much too fast.

"Sniper, no sniping!" "Sniper, no sniping!" "Sniper, no sniping!"

I guess we're not breaking 900 this month.

Why is it down? What's the news?

rtharp, This isn't a 1,2 or 5 minute graph. That is a 250 tick graph. Those 5 point jumps were occuring within SECONDS. You are probably a much better trader than I would be out of the gates but to me, that is just insanity. As long as I've been watching ES (months), I've never seen it do...

Aiki, Are you trading ES with this setup?

That's not chop, that's a blender.

Theories?

What method/system and indicators are you using? If you don't feel comfortable telling us the system in detail, perhaps you could give us an overview of how you are trading this. I hope you weren't trading past 3:15 today.

Oh sorry! I just realized that I wasn't in the DEMO account today. Oops. Everyone suggested I start with 1 contract -- not 40,000. Sorry about that.

If what happened today around 3:15-3:25 happens while I'm in the market, I'm going to freak out. How are you supposed to trade that kind of crap? As soon as I clicked buy or sell it would have already passed by stop by 5 points. Seriously scary stuff there! In fact, the entire day was just...

Seth, Jasper is a program I am writing to help me with order managment via IB. I don't like their interface or software too much so I came up with my own autotrader. Its coming along slowly but surely ...

That was just totally disorderly movement. Looks like a program went off and triggered another program -- or some type of computer FU. I've never seen it like that. I'm glad I didn't pick today to start trading. Ps: You can look at the graph and tell something went haywire -- they...

My Jasper program went CRAZY! ES covered 6 points in a second! Man I bet people got burned on that one. I've never seen it that volatile. That was NASTY.

I guess you could say the same thing about money, stock certificates, bonds, checks or anything else that is just a piece of paper but everyone accepts has value!! How are futures contracts any different?

RS7, Who did you date -- Judy Garland?