Think or Swim On Demand Feature

[jnbadger]

Well, even though I'm still trading stocks for about the hundredth year, it seems I'm officially hooked on trading the NQ futures.

But I still need lots of practice, and that's where the On Demand feature in TOS comes in.

I've been practicing in the current quarter, but the calendar goes all the way back to Dec of 2009, so I thought I'd go back to the beginning of this year.

Well, I obviously don't want to trade June contracts in January, so I enter /NQH24 in my charts, and they all load and scroll along normally when I hit the GO button.

But here's the issue... Only the Sell MKT button is active, while the Buy MKT button is not. (Yes, I'm using market orders for now).

But when I load the current /NQM24 contract, everything is normal, but I don't think I want to trade a contract that trades 16k contracts per day.

And as I was writing this, I thought of just trying /NQ. Guess what? It works all the way back to Dec 7 2009, the buy and sell buttons are working, and the daily volume looks good.

Well, thanks for reading while I solve my own dumb ass problem. But maybe it will help someone down the road.

When in doubt, just go with the continuous contract quotes, I guess.

JNB out.

 

[jnbadger]

Turns out that doesn't work. No matter where I buy or sell, it registers all of my trades as break even results.

Any ideas? I'll just practice in the current quarter for now.

 

[schizo]

Well, even though I'm still trading stocks for about the hundredth year, it seems I'm officially hooked on trading the NQ futures.

But I still need lots of practice, and that's where the On Demand feature in TOS comes in.

I've been practicing in the current quarter, but the calendar goes all the way back to Dec of 2009, so I thought I'd go back to the beginning of this year.

Well, I obviously don't want to trade June contracts in January, so I enter /NQH24 in my charts, and they all load and scroll along normally when I hit the GO button.

But here's the issue... Only the Sell MKT button is active, while the Buy MKT button is not. (Yes, I'm using market orders for now).

But when I load the current /NQM24 contract, everything is normal, but I don't think I want to trade a contract that trades 16k contracts per day.

And as I was writing this, I thought of just trying /NQ. Guess what? It works all the way back to Dec 7 2009, the buy and sell buttons are working, and the daily volume looks good.

Well, thanks for reading while I solve my own dumb ass problem. But maybe it will help someone down the road.

When in doubt, just go with the continuous contract quotes, I guess.

JNB out.

TOS OD is perfect in every way except for the fact that it doesn't work. I'm surprised you went as far as placing the damn order. I can't even get it up and run for more than a minute before it freezes up or that the lag is so severe you're better off just going with Yahoo's 15 minute delayed chart.

Anyway, it turns out that the damn thing doesn't just give you the replay of that day's charts, but the entire shebang: options, T&S, DOM, on and on and on. No wonder, it's a memory killer. So I leave you with the following quote.

"It is always with the best intentions that the worst work is done."
― Oscar Wilde

 

[jnbadger]

TOS OD is perfect in every way except for the fact that it doesn't work. I'm surprised you went as far as placing the damn order. I can't even get it up and run for more than a minute before it freezes up or that the lag is so severe you're better off just going with Yahoo's 15 minute delayed chart.

Anyway, it turns out that the damn thing doesn't just give you the replay of that day's charts, but the entire shebang: options, T&S, DOM, on and on and on. No wonder, it's a memory killer. So I leave you with the following quote.

"It is always with the best intentions that the worst work is done."
― Oscar Wilde

I agree that it's a total data hog. One time I was practicing and it just kept freezing and having to catch up. Then I realized I had my NQ charts linked to the options chain window, so it was pulling all data for every option that existed for the June contract, including the greeks.

I can't imagine how much data is being transferred for all of the greeks for options on futures. I just read that amazon is beginning to use nuclear reactor powered data centers. And Microsoft and google are getting there as well. I would imagine stock market data centers aren't far behind.

https://www.greenbiz.com/article/am...nal-growing-interest-nuclear-geothermal-power

But when I just run clean charts which aren't linked to crazy data hog extras, everything runs fairly smoothly.