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Hello jk90029, I have no problem to stay on ET for the next 3 years or even 10 years. Well, maybe ET, I and Baron may be a bit different at that time :) Not that I am planning to die, but I may not be able to be doing flips at that time :) The real point is however that even if I do better...

Hello sysdevel99, Well, our peak DD so far was under 45% and +130K is not the "final" result (just as +415K wasn't either). As explained, there are phases when you "load up" and phases where you make a (possible) profit. If you have to stop, you stop in profit, and not in an "investment"...

The key word here is "Losing". Yes, you are right if you have reasons to see that as a "loss". If you see it as an "investment" the perspective changes. Two though-provoking questions: 1) Whose quote is this: “Unless you can watch your stock holding decline by 50% without becoming...

Hello jarjar, You may have missed some posts. This thread is mostly targeted to IB users and on each screenshot, and official report, I have been displaying all the time the account number. It's well known that accounts starting with "D" are paper trading accounts. In addition to that, I have...

That is generally true. Personally, I have been trading both real accounts and paper trading accounts. I can tell you that I am much more worried in these public illustrations than when trading my own real money. Here it's not just money at stake :) Whatever figure one is going to trade, one...

Well, yes these futures have large swings, so it's not uncommon to see PNL peaks either favorable or unfavorable if you hold a relatively large position. Of course, it's not responsible IB, as I said I compute the PNL independently: it's just that the instrument moves quite a lot (that is also...

Hello d08, if you mean the complete broker reports with all details of trades, I periodically attach them (you may have missed the posts where I have attached them). One of the recent ones is this post

Hi jarjar, that's right, the application PNL is computed "real time", meaning that it is recomputed either as soon as a bid or ask is received or a (partial) fill event (or relative commission) is received, as those are the factors affecting it, and its various components (realized profit/loss...

After last week PNL high peak, where we touched +410K, we had another "load phase" where practically all our profits have been absorbed by a new "investment". Currently, the load is on crude oil (CL), natural gas (this one is slowly recovering through scalping) (NG), SI and ZL (which I am...

The application contains also facilities for both backtesting (which is a word that I hate) and "game simulation" on a folio with simulated markets [this would iterate through many trading sessions of desired length (years of millisec tickdata), and gives an overall view]. Personally, I never...

Hello jarjar, Well, it's a large client application which "talks" to IB API to execute the orders and collect the relevant events. In this sense, yes all the trading happens from here, and via the broker API. (The only exception can be possible liquidations or forced close action made by the...

I guess someone is going to have a bad day today (with CL). This time the gap was in our favor, since, as explained in the previous post, the application had taken the short side on 3 layers, and we have broken again our highest watermark, with PNL shooting up to +410K. While this is good news...

Today the situation is looking slightly better, while the PNL fluctuates around +255K, with some DD recovering. In the meantime the "potential for profit" (G-L) has shoot up quite high, due to the short position on CL (which is my preferred trading direction for this instrument). I rolled over...

Continuing our illustration, this week we had a pretty large DD, going from the peak PNL of +384K all the way down to about +90K. A 300K investment, mostly on CL. At the same time, we are carrying out surrounding games with options and ETFs (in semi-automation). Currently around +130K, the...

I was unsure about ending here this illustration and start a new one. Since some layers of CL and NKD seem to have engaged in a new "load" phase (some DD and G-L shooting up) I think I will let it run for some more time to see how it goes. In the meantime, I will be running a few more sims to...

Imho, you can forget about the Kelly criterion in real-world trading application. However, the idea of using only 1/4 of the capital, if your max tolerated DD is 25%, sounds good to me, as given enough time, you do have a concrete possibility of hitting a 100% DD, with respect to used margin...

I have this on my tws menu (it should be the default look, as I never use it):

Have you tried: top menu > Alerts > New > "Audio" tab > custom > browse

Yesterday we have beaten our highest watermark, with PNL reaching beyond +375K. Currently still high (around +370K), mostly due to the three active CL layers. NG is still mostly in an "investment phase" with several players waiting a chance to close. NG does have much less of those rapidly...

Hi radex78, the concept of "complexity" is a very relative one. For instance, when proposed special relativity also seemed complex, but now any child apparently can explain it. Similarly, if you look at the Menichelli () exercise in Tokio, it was obviously something for its times (Franco got...