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    Time and Sales as an indicator?

    Ive seen several times where people reccommend watching time and sales when entering a trade. I have tried this a number of different times because it seems so logical. If you see a steady stream of trades going off at the bid the markets going down, right? Wrong! Somebody is buying all that...
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    quotetracker/ib dax symbol problem

    I had that part of it already. It turned out that you had to put an f in front of dax and estx50 i.e: dtb:@fdax sep 03. Who knows why. They dont tell you that in the example they give on the website. Thanks for taking the time to reply.
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    Is Trading Worth the Effort?

    I think gaining enlightenment is the ultimate challenge but trading is a close second.
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    Is the party over ?

    You want to win every time? p.s. If the other guy doesnt win once in a while he will stop playing.
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    the BULL, the BEAR, and the BEAST.

    what happened to the fifth beast?
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    Is the party over ?

    How can the party be over? The party is continous. Up or down, setups appear.
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    Saddam rumor at 10:00?

    Actually theres a report that comes out on thursdays at 10 called the Business Barometer that a lot ot traders watch.
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    quotetracker/ib dax symbol problem

    I am inputting the symbol for dax and estx50 as medved says to do ie: dtb:@dax sep 03 and dtb:@estx50 sep 03 but it is not working. Can somebody put me on the right track? Yes I am subscribed to the data.
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    Sometimes I think that trading is a very bad job

    Without traders the economy could not exist, imo. We'd have to go back to barter.
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    Would you trade with 56K dial-up?

    Used a phone line for the first three years of my "career". Had lots of problems but they all concerned the Phonee.
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    Need Help Developing a New Trading Style for the ES

    Nice post Vision. Beautifully written. I hear you. Going for the move is definitely where its at. Hard to play, but doable.
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    divergence in 1min charts

    I would suggest paper trading whatever divergences youre referring to for awhile. You will discover rather quickly that theyre much easier to spot after the fact. I have tried about a million variations on that theme. I like what dgabriel said in his first reply here. p.s. fwiw, Linda...
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    Lots of monitors just to show off?

    Youre the only one who can answer that question. Do you have everything there that you want to monitor on one screen? I dont like tiny charts so have lots of monitors.
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    IB futures symbols in Quotetracker

    Im playing around with quotetracker to see if it will make a good backup. I can get the globex symbols ok but when I put the spaces in as they say to do with the ACE symbols it comes up on the quote screen as three different symbols. Thot id try here first.
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    Router/Dsl Modem Problems

    In another post I mentioned that I was having problems getting a router to work with my dsl. The solution was rather simple and I am amazed that Linksys support did not know this although I think most of the support nowadays comes out of central locations from people who are reading manuals...
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    Is reality concrete or abstract ?

    define reality...
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    Windows XP: Home or Pro?

    Bought a new machine the other day with XP Pro and immediately had problems with esignal. Have been using 2000 pro for awhile now with zero problems so took it back and got a refund and upgraded my old box. XP is probably fine but that was my experience.
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    What are you favorite books and/or websites on strategy trading?

    I recomend "Street Smarts". Ive read over a hundred books on trading. Donated all of them to the local library except this one. It doesnt cover everything but its a great foundation, imo.
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    Trojan Attack!

    Is anybody using Bellsouth dsl and windows2000 with a NAT router? I bought a Linksys firewall/router but never could get it to work. Linksys support finally gave up after a couple of sessions.
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