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    Collecting unemployment while working at a prop firm

    In California, if you get a check it only gets subtracted from that period's unemployment check. It does not, by itself, disqualify you from unemployment. You might be able to continue to collect the unemployment if your checks are infrequent or not that big.
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    Interactive Brokers TWS Price Scale Bug

    myTrack might be the place to go to trade the pennies. They have an API if you don't do manual entries.
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    Interactive Brokers TWS Price Scale Bug

    I have run into those kinds of problems with the penny stocks with my current data provider. There are not a lot of traders trading those issues so probably it is not a real high priority with the brokers/data providers. I just pulled up a chart with Tradestation and they have it priced in 4...
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    TS2k/Hyperserver/DTNIQ bid and ask

    I fired up my TS2000, not sure if that was a real smart thing to do but hey... I signed up with DTNIQ and am using the history download plug in from Hypertrader.com. I don't seem to be able to get any bid or ask history. I can get the trades on all the available data compressions but no bid/ask...
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    I don't want your freakin SPAM

    I don't get much spam after years on this board. Your spam might not be related to ET. I have gotten offers via private message on this board but they were all related to posts I made, pretty well targeted, not mass mailings.
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    IQ Feed Sockets question

    I have their sample DDE spreadsheet, the VBA is passworded and I don't see any other materials that came with the download that apply.
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    Upgrade/Downgrade

    lots of times it is obviously due to recent developments in the company like a big order or earnings surprise.
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    the basic flaws in TA

    Call it opposing vectors and the only thing physics and prices have in common is that they can be represented the same way
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    IB Automatic SW

    Do you have experience with all that? One big problem with TS2k is that some of the data software will provide on demand data into charts but the radarscreen can only be fed by the global server. I have used dynaorder and wondered about hypertrader recently because dynaorder is not supported and...
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    How to make Raderscreen act as scanner

    Radarscreen in TS8 will do 2000 symbols intraday and 1000 if you need history. You paste in the symbols yourself. You have to use an indicator called a filter with a true/false output which you can sort by so all the ones that are ringing true will be at the top. You can click on format then...
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    Backtesting vs Simulation vs Actual Trading

    Sniper, thanks for the thread. One real problem in backtesting is making the simulation as real as possible as attended to in this thread by Lawrence Chan. I found a bug in my backtesting recently wherein I was using the low of the day of the entry for some system filtering. That was a case...
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    Computer Security

    If you can do work on a computer that is never online you are fairly safe. You have to transfer data to that machine with an external hdd or disc and you have to scan the transfer device for rootkits, trojans, etc. As an aside, I got the first mass distribution computer virus ever maybe, it...
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    Finally, a stripped down TWS made possible with new build 854?

    So now IB has a modular TWS just in time for the death of Dynaorder. I hope the API does not change and break Dynaorder any time soon, I don't want to learn to write DLL's, I don't, I don't!! Ok, I am a little spoiled maybe, where is that copy of Power Basic.... Geez it's not enough that systems...
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    Automated trading through Excel

    I was more pointing out that there is a fast interface for Excel. Data providers could all provide a similar interface, maybe some do already. I'm seeing Excel as a node of integration between different data providers and different software vendors and IB.
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    Backtesting vs Simulation vs Actual Trading

    Nice work. I recently did some simulation work and got good results, then I noticed that my biggest % gains occured with situations where I probably could not have gotten much $ into the trade and the losses occured when I could have put a lot of $ into the trade. I had to re evaluate the whole...
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    Anyone ever try to explain their trading career choice to family?

    I break people into two categories, with/without vision. If you have vision you might as well learn to shut up and do what you are going to do because the people that don't have it will do nothing but detract from your efforts. I have always been amazed by the obvious windfalls about to happen...
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    New Rogue Trader hits the Copper Market, gets Squeezed

    Nick Leeson went missing at one point. I probably would too.:D
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    Automated trading through Excel

    These guys have a faster Excel interface, I don't know how many issues you can watch at a time but this is probably as good as it gets. http://www.traderssoft.com/ts8/mdl/ there are so many brokerages/data providers etc that have an Excel interface, it has to come in handy at some point.
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    Building options screening tool from scratch

    Tradestation has something, I have never tried it but... http://www.tradestation.com/optionstation/overview.shtm The old TS2k Pro Suite has OptionStation. You can get that software on the cheap and get data from Esignal, might do what you want. Max
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    Success starts with the right attitude

    Success starts with desperation
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