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electron, I had the same problem. Try this: Go into your TWS directory, there's a folder starts with D, in there delete "settings.xml". Then start up TWS, and it will give you the default window, which you can go reset by going into file > manage wprkspaces > pre-upgrade

I've been told that if you walk away from an entity, and that the entity is not conducting any business, no profit, that though you should technically dissolve the company, no one's really going to come after you, it not being worth any effort if there really hasn't been any activity and no...

More revenue from another enterprise, self-esteem, sense of goal accomplishment.

in addition to that, I would like to ask why it is that in testing two systems (for stocks, not futures), system A performs moderately well in a backtest, system B performs wonderfully, yet in forward testing system A performs very well and system B is horrible, even after accounting for...

Because some trade only a few hundred shares at a time. And regardless of the number of shares, most traders do not wish to be charged the hidden costs of "order flow" that web based brokers get per share, nor do most traders want the few seconds of delay in execution (and the browser based...

The 'wetting agents' may be Dihydrogen Monoxide http://www.dhmo.org/ :D

You would have excel perform an "if" function first to determine if the position has been exited. I'm thinking off the top of my head not ever having specifically written the function to do so. For example, if when a position is exited then the exit price is displayed in a certain cell, the if...

Reitberg wasn't.

Sorry, didn't take the negative sign in your post as a negative sign at that moment.

That looks like a credit to me. What did IB say when you called them?

Just as I called it in http://www.elitetrader.com/vb/showthread.php?s=&postid=472081#post472081. Who else can call it like that? Can you? You? YOU? Bring me your finest... ahhhhh, enuff already.

If I figured out an infallible trading system? What good would it do me if I didn't have my own highway lane.

For those of you that would like more information regarding bill's method, here's a couple of his recent informative posts from turtletradingsoftware: http://www.turtletradingsoftware.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=772&highlight=...

What is this, trading 101? MM takes into account the nature of the strategy, i.e., if longer term trend trading, wider stops are going to be used, intraday scalping will use tighter stops. One may get you stopped out of CDCY, the other maybe not. Whether you're ultimately profitable with CDCY or...

Yeh... you could've also gotten on board CDCY a few days ago to ride the trend and gotten slammed today. Hindsight's great.

You add/deduct the capital deposited/withdrawn before making the calculation for the period. Aaron Schindler posted that advice some time ago, if you care to search through his posts to get more info.

It's unbelievable. This makes the third thread I've read in two days where people in current winning streaks are waving off the comments that point out the possible weaknesses in their strategies/methods... waving off the comments on the basis that since they're in a winning streak, it means...

I think it means we'll soon be getting a rash of "do moving average crossover systems work well?" and "what's a profitable method I can trade today?" and "what are some hot stock picks you guys have?" type of newbie posts :D

A difference between the 1099 gross proceeds figures and your figures for gross proceeds on schedule D will trigger an electronic audit. That's where the IRS's computer catches that difference and requests a statement from you about it. Electronic audits are up this past year because it's easier...

Paul, what you call "yammering" is my simply asking for some details about parameters bill uses for backtesting against flat bases. I currently have some ideas I scan for that also work with flat bases, and I was curious as to how bill handles it. bill, thanks for what you've shared so far.