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What's that picture? I don't see any trend line. I am looking for straight lines connecting two or more highs or lows.

Is there a charting software that can find & draw various straight trend lines AUTOMATICALLY for you? Preferably one that I can use with IB TWS for for daytrading? I draw them manually with mouse clicks on QT but sometimes I miss some and associated profits. Would be nice to have SW do it for...

Here's what I want to achieve with TWS but couldn't find a solution. (I realize my trading scheme may seem weird): Before going to bed, I want to place a sell (short) limit order on ES. If ES doesn't hit my limit price overnight, I want the order to expire at 8AM ET. This is easy to do...

How's the volume now? I wonder if IB outrage is causing a massive drop in liquidity. (Wouldn't be because of me but...)

I have been using stop/market almost exclusively (especially on long position) because I want to protect against *catastrophic* loss. Stop/limit would likely not get filled if market drops real fast on a sudden news (e.g. 911), would it? In hundreds of stops I have had with IB in past few...

Yeah, today I had both QT and IB TWS live ES charts side by side. I did see that TWS chart showed higher tops or lower bottoms on some occasions. So it seems there is some loss of ticks going from TWS to QT in addition to the IB source aggregation issue people mention above.

Yeah it was real trading. Never tried sim trading. I imagine a bit of difference is expected since orders are not executed by the exchange.

Good question. Backfill data can always be different, I believe, since IB uses coalescing. As far as live data goes, if I had both IB TWS chart and QT chart side by side live and both failed to show the true low at 1059.25, then it would imply IB's quote is the problem. If IB chart shows...

Well, if the bid drops 2 point and then quickly rise one tick before your stop is executed, one can expect a fill at 1.75, right? Are you saying it never dropped 2 point? In my case, QT quote and chart was just missing some fast quotes from IB's TWS and hence the confusion. It seems the stop...

IB got back to me regarding this issue. They showed a time and sales history where it shows the bid actually being dropped and the contract traded. Somehow the QT chart and its time and sale history do not show this. When I clear QT's quote data and backfill it again, the low price does show...

I trade ES with IB and I keep getting my stop order triggered AND executed at price OUTSIDE of the reported trading range. Anyone with the same experience? Today for example, I had ESZ9 stop sell at 1059.25 at 10 minutes before 4PM ET. It traded down 1059.50 before ramping to 1062 but IB says...

This morning 9:37am low shows 1006. But TDAmeritrade and Yahoo both show 1007 as its low. I have been noticing IB's SP500 quotes are not exactly same as others but this delta is just too much. How am I supposed to trade on this?

Tradelink seems to have ability to record tick data. That's terrific. I will definitely check it out. Thanks. The amount of resource available to at-home traders are pretty amazing these days. HW, SW, networks cost very little. Almost too good to be true. :)

Awesome. I had assumed that I can't connect two clients to single TWS because I had trouble connecting both QT and Ninja to IQ. I now realize that I just need to give a unique client ID to each! Thanks.

Is there a way to establish multiple connections to IB TWS? I am currently using QT for charts and want to be able to save the tick-by-tick index quotes (and eventually run a automated trading in Matlab) concurrently. Saw some folks talk about bringing up multiple instances of TWS. Do I need...

I see that there are sites where you can choose from a "menu" of trading systems and subscribe. Apparently, their server trades your account on your behalf. They don't give you the algorithm. Some systems show annual return of 200% or more. Seems to good to true. There's gotta a catch...

Be careful when you go for that little extra interests. Early last year I was not happy with near zero interest on my TD America IRA account. So after looking around I found that TD had a money market *LIKE* fund (Reserve Yield Plus, RYPQX) that holds $1 NAV and pays 2+% earnings. It seemed...

Wow, you have been shorting all the way? Must have a huge account.

Folks, I bought a GeForece 6200 PCI card ($30 after rebate) and it's working fine in tandem with the ATI Radeon X600 card on PCIE-x16 slot. Not much increase in power usage. Still under 130W under normal trading use. At first, I tried a GeForce FX 5200 PCI but I found out it couldn't handle...

Thanks everyone for input. I realized that my APC UPS shows the power usage status. When idle, it seems the PC is using only about 100 to 130 W. Need to test it under heavy load but it seems it should be well below 305W of PSU. Or is there a big headroom I should reserve for because power...