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I read this as, I'm going to milk you for money before I reveal how crappy my system is.

You can hook it up to Interactive Brokers TWS pretty easy using their Java API.

One year is not enough IMO. I have built systems that work really well one year and then horrible the next. Find something that works 5+ years with over 1000 trades and you might have something :-) Good Luck.

Good post. Important key is not to give away lots of money while figuring it out.

Yeah, for doing google searches in your car and google can make more money selling ads.

All the backtesting I have done, suggests that going for the big move is best. Otherwise, chop and commissions eat too much of the profits. Of course, everyone needs to do their own homework.

If I understand you correctly, you are saying that given equal information, each group will percieve the information differently. In other words, each group gets the same information, but each group is going to form a different opinion on the information based on their belief system. Glass...

My ATS uses Java and the IB API. I would suggest using a simple synchronous method if possible otherwise it can get complicated and harder to debug. I broke the system down into a bunch of components that are event driven. All components and events are registered with the component...

The socket API lets you connect multiple clients.

Granted all trends come to an end. However, markets are not rational and prices historically are pushed to irrational levels before they correct. Even extreme levels are not uncommon. This is why it is important to trade based on what the market is doing and not what it should do.

So many failed top and bottom calls are on ET. Every now and then someone gets it right, but most are FAIL! Yeah, prices may seem irrational, but when are they ever not? People have been scrambling to get out of cash and into some sort of asset (Commodities, stocks and even farmland)...

Markets are irrational and prices can be pushed far beyond what they probably should be. Fear and greed, combined with hearding mentality create some powerful trends.

Have to agree. In a seminal 1985 paper by Werner De Bondt and Richard Thaler title "Does the Stock Market Overreact?", the researchers concluded in a study of market efficiency that most people tend to overreact to unexpected news events and that "substantial weak form market...

You think I'm being serious? Read my post again. Or you just trolling me back?

Clearly a troll post, however I'll respond anyways for self entertainment. Note Troll response. "so I just buy dips in SPY and sell rallies in UUP?" Yes! "if i start with $10K account how much can i reasonably expect by Xmas?" More money than you can imagine! "i need a new wireless...

Depending on point of view. It is possible that one persons counter trend trade is another persons with the trend trade. Lets face it, without specifics, we are all just blowing our Vuvuzela.

Yep, this would be correct. Especially the etc.. etc.. ;-) I'll admit that the method I use is very simple and seems so obvious that it should not work, but it does. Basically, I'm just using simple SR patterns to catch a trend. Combined with good money management it works pretty darn...

One more thing. Hmm. Kinda sad about the state of ET and Web forums in general that my well meaning comment and thanks could be mistaken for sarcasim. Reading it now, I can see how it could be read that way. And just to be clear, that is not a stab at anyone in particular, just a general...

Waiting to trade the breakout is usually the safest way to trade the retracement. In other words, if the trend is up (pattern of higher lows), wait for the pullback, let price establish support and consolidate a little. ideally it will create a contracting support/resistence area aka a wedge...

I didn't take it that way and my thanks was the real deal. In otherwords, I was not being sarcastic if that is what you might be thinking. You really did do a good job at rephrasing it. Lets face it, my comment was kind of half ass... LOL.