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Hi Jerry, I have been reading but haven't posted for quite a while. So I guess the edge comes in trading when the price action is above or below the VWAP(Considering you have a large enough skew), and the greater odds that it will keep going in this direction.

Thanks to all for your thoughts. James I'll have to check and see where the servers are held by asking the brokers. Do you know of any brokers who have hosted gateways? Blowfish, sometimes when I trade i practice just banging out 1/4's on the eminis and i can go through a ton of trades in a short period of time. We all know simulation executions are nothing like the real thing but my thought is that to do this kind of trading you would need a broker that can give you great fills. When i do my more longer term trades then you are right the executions are not as critical.

Does anyone have some thoughts or experience on which brokerage firms have the best order fills and executions in the futures markets? I use IB right now but am thinking of switching over to infinity, because I have heard they have faster fills than most firms.

Hi Jerry, I've been through your threads a few times and I want to thank you for taking the time and effort to lay out your perspectives on trading. I have a few questions that I'm hoping you might respond too. 1.) When you scale in do you use the Shapiro effect or do you pull the trigger when then price hits the scale in point. 2.) Could you give some thoughts on when you reverse a trade. When do you do it? 3.) I'm a recent ensign subscriber and I don't see where you can extend the HUP lines on the charts. Did you do that through a DYO? 4.) In an earlier thread you wrote about using hard stops in case you lose power or your equipment fails. How far out do you place these stops and do you enter them and cancel them every trade? Or are they sitting out there all day? Or something else? As you can tell by the questions I am a newbie. Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thank you for your generosity. Mark