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I was a customer with IB well over 10 years ago by now and want to retrieve my annual statements for those years. Just being able to locate the correct contact page was a job. When I finally received an answer, it was a generic reply saying I have to log on to my old account and request the...

Probably nothing at this point in time. I already have this system/application working bug-free for years and use it on a daily basis. I would estimate it took me a bit over 5 years on/off to complete with a lot of research and development going into it. A professional firm created it for me...

My point was that it might not be the right tool to begin with, but if you're a programmer, that's what you may be inclined to use, i.e., "I'm going to solve the markets with programming and machine learning and super duper advanced algorithms." Part of the system/framework I have is an...

I imagined the guy should be able enough. Have been working full time for nearly a decade and I did my best to qualify him initially. I also ran a cross-check of his proposed architecture/solution with another programmer and he said he seemed to know what he was talking about. And maybe he does...

Actually, the guy I cooperated with allegedly used ChatGPT to help streamline his process by writing some of the code, but it didn’t seem to help him much. As a parting note he had suggestions for how things could have done differently and “improved”, but to me it only showed that he hadn’t...

I think that's fairly common with discount brokers. I'm with NinjaTrader. I'll copy and paste their margins below. You'll need the full margin to hold through the electronic close, though. I've seen that AMP increases the margin requirement pending major news releases (FOMC and lately CPI...

Trading authors are generally not profitable, but there may be exceptions. I haven't read a how-to book in ages, but the last time I heard about one it was from a salesman (broker) starting a hedge fund who at the same time launched a how-to-book for traders with the aim being to teach them how...

Well, that was my main concern expressed on the first page of this thread, so don't think I'm completely naive or blue eyed. As it's not a mechanical system/algorithm and requires some know-how and savvy to use, I decided to take the risk. Even after a year, it's apparent to me that the...

That's impossible for me to know, but my gut feel and impression from working with the guy is that's not what happened. I just think he vastly underestimated the scope of the project (his fault by not spending the sufficient time first to learn my system) and got burned out along the way when he...

Been a long while since I had any fun on the weekend anyway. LOL. Most of my free hours are are already spent on various forms of market study/development. I don't think learning to code at this point in time is efficient use of my time to be honest. I can back-check/test historical prices/days...

Respectfully, you're the one who don't have the faintest clue about what you're talking about. You know virtually nothing about my system or how much work I'm putting in. Feel free to check out of this thread and stop posting here.

That doesn't make sense. I can write complex IFS and formulas in Excel, but I'm not able to do the same in C# or Python since I'm not a programmer. All the calculations/math/formulas/IF statements were supplied by me.

Well, this collaboration looked promising for a while, but ended up being a failure. Long story short, the programmer vastly underestimated the scope of the project not taking the sufficient time to set up and learn my existing system properly before he started the project of re-writing what I...

Here's a few examples I've shared in the ES Journal of real money trades where I've added to winners. The premise is that you'll first enter on an early signal and then make a new entry on subsequent signals in the same direction proving your initial read correct. Done properly, the second or...

I do it routinely and my initial entry is always on my smallest size. The only trading rule I seem to be able to follow 100 % is that I never add to a losing trade since I know that this isn't mathematically sound and eventually ends up giving you a huge loser, even if it can work short-term...

Not if you're a technical trader, IMO. I'll add one comment to what I said earlier, though. I suppose I do have bias in the sense that I'm more skeptical towards rallies these days. More reason to expect them to fail due to the fundamental backdrop. I wouldn't be surprised to see a larger...

That sucks, man. Not sure if you're interested in advice, but since you post publicly, I'll say my impression is that your view on where you think the market should go based on your macro view is in conflict with where the market is actually going. The massive COVID rally was the final nail in...

Same this week. :) The quote above didn't specify late week strength in case that wasn't obvious.

Curious why you ask? Is it because you're considering scalping? And haven't had success with it so far? I've heard conflicting comments on this question throughout the years, but from my own experience, I fail to see why scalping should no longer be profitable. The obvious challenge for a...

2 pages with speculation and nobody have bothered to see the actual video before posting. LOL. :) I'll watch it tomorrow if anyone doesn't provide the Cliff's Notes by then. Doesn't seem unlikely to me considering the wild moves in energy over the last year or two if he traded with high...