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My old computer meets the minimum requirements, but still isn't adequate, so I am asking traders with experience for a more realistic requirements.

My computer isn't adequate to use Ninjatrader 8. It is slow and sometimes crashes. I found the below computer for a reasonable price. It has: Quad Core i5-8265U 16 GB Ram 512 GB SSD Memory Will this be enough to run Ninjatrader 8, particularly the bookmap features? Thread Starter

The Las Vegas Trader's Expo is being held November 7-9, 2019. The attendance is free. This is the link. Click on Schedule tab for schedule of speakers. https://conferences.moneyshow.com/tradersexpo-las-vegas/?scode=006108 I was thinking of going just to meet other traders and because Al...

How does MT5 work with a VPN?

I am using NinjaTrader 8 with Forex.com. I recently got ExpressVpn. When the VPN is on, the connection will disconnect regularly, and sometimes connect back in a few seconds. I haven't had this problem with my other connection to Interactive Brokers on another computer. When I connect is...

I have a few observations. 1. The statement "I found that its patterns are not consistent with price action" is not stated correctly. That chart IS the price action. Imposing your opinions on what is in front of your eyes will surely result in losses. 2. There is nothing unusual about...

The first question is always whether you are in a trend or a trading range because the strategies are exactly the opposite. For example, if you have a bull trend bar and you believe it is in a trend, you would buy 1 tick above the high in anticipation of it going higher, but if you believe you...

I have been using NinjaTrader with FXCM and it has been working well. You can use the free NinjaTrader version.

The reason the trader is successful is because at some point he didn't sim and took his loses and corrected his trading. Real loses keeps you honest. Just simming you will always be in delusion land.

After a point, sim becomes counter productive and delusional and produces bad habits. Nobody who paper trades actually has a winning strategy. The solution is to open up a FOREX Account and trade micro contracts live. Trading 1 unit is 10 cents per pip. You can be a disaster and at the end...

I didn't look at my charts that early, so missed the first pullback. By the time I saw the charts it was ready to turn. I entered about 9:20 am. On a move like that I always scale in, and didn't get stopped out. You could have even put a portion of your capital on the first pullback and made...

I am surprised that more traders didn't spot this. Notice that after the huge 150 pip spike it literally retraced the entire move to the tick. This was an easy trade to enter. GBP/USD was making doji bars with large tails signaling the turnaround. I shorted at the top and took a piece but...

What happened to the euro this morning? At 8:30 am, the euro made a huge bull spike and went up a huge 150 pips. The news was some minor report "Employment Cost Index" and probably wasn't the cause. Then the rest of the day it fully retraced back to the start. I couldn't find any news on it...

Yes, I know the move occurred on the 6E. I meant that these moves didn't occur on the stocks and other futures, such as ym, nq,es, at that time. I have only been caught once by ones of these moves. The slippage was 20 pips. These are extremely rapid flash moves. I am surprised nobody has...

I have been trading EUR/USD for a few weeks on FXCM. I have noticed that there can be high volatility spikes on the one minute bar at unpredictable times. When this happens, your stop slips and you get out with a large loss. Furthermore, these high volatility spikes don’t appear on the stocks or...

On the drawobjects in NinjaTrader, I use to be able to press F12 and it would pop up the text draw object. Now when I press this and any other hot key I get the system function, which for F12 is to turn off my Internet. I contacted Ninjatrader support and they have been no help. They told me...

I also got the above message that the Interactive Brokers current Market Data scheme is terminating November 30, 2014. In the current non-professional bundle, for $10 you get, among other services, AMEX Level 1, NYSE Level 1, Nasdaq Level 1, along with BATS and other electronic exchanges...

It doesn't look like it's going to be that bad. Interactive Brokers provides a "txf" file for the 8949 data, which I imported into turbotax which then automatically creates the 8949 and Schedule D. Now I just have to send an amended return back to the IRS.

I called up IB, and SLV doesn't issue a K-1. Here is some information. http://commodityhq.com/2012/the-complete-list-of-commodity-etfs-that-issue-a-k-1/

In 2012, I scalped USO and SLV a few times. At the time, I thought these were regular ETFs, and had no idea of the tax complexity. They don't report the basis to the IRS, so the IRS assumes that the proceeds are your profit. This is turning into a tax nightmare. Whatever you do, do not trade...