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Hey guys,
Here we are again .
Like last year, futures.io (formerly BMT) is holding its annual "futures.io (formerly BMT) Best of Trading" awards where the users can select the best of the best in a wide array of categories.
The award process is a two stage process: During November we hold nominations where the users need to reply to this thread and nominate the candidates. Then during December we will hold the actual voting part, where users will cast their votes and select the winners for each category.
EDIT: Fri 11/11/11, added two categories - PLEASE NOMINATE IN THESE CATEGORIES, TOO!
So first, we need nominations for each of these categories:
futures.io (formerly BMT) Member Of The Year
futures.io (formerly BMT) Thread Of The Year
futures.io (formerly BMT) Programmer Of The Year
futures.io (formerly BMT) Indicator Of The Year
futures.io (formerly BMT) System Of The Year
futures.io (formerly BMT) Webinar Of The Year
Best Futures Broker
Best Data Feed
Best Forex Broker
Best Stocks Broker
Best Trading Platform
Best Trading Book
EDIT: Added Fri 11/11/11: I want to make it clear that the indicator/system does not have to be created this year to be eligible. It doesn't matter when the indicator/system was created, all that matters is that you guys think it is the best!
Please reply to this thread and start nominating --- please make it clear in your post what you are nominating for.
EDIT FEB 1 2012:
The winners have been announced. I apologize for the delay.
The below is just an image (easier to embed). For the links to each item, go here instead:
I want to put together several polls in the coming weeks so that in December everyone can cast their votes for the "best of trading", a series that I intend to hold each year going forward.
I'd like to remind everyone to step up and nominate their favorites for each category. We should be looking at a large number of nominations. And then in December we'll take all these nominations and make a list so everyone can cast their final votes and winners be selected.
And yes, before someone asks... I put NinjaTrader on the list, even though I haven't used it in a couple years... as I am considering looking at it again (haven't decided, largely a matter of time and priorities).
futures.io (formerly BMT) Member Of The Year - Fat tails
futures.io (formerly BMT) Thread Of The Year - TF day trading
futures.io (formerly BMT) Programmer Of The Year - Harry , Fat tails
futures.io (formerly BMT) Indicator Of The Year - drawing tools
futures.io (formerly BMT) System Of The Year - dunno
Best Futures Broker - dunno
Best Data Feed - esignal
Best Forex Broker - MB trading
Best Stocks Broker - dunno
Best Trading Platform - MB navigator
Member - Fat Tails
Thread - Sharkys RW Trading Class
Honorable Mention - The Panda Warrior Chronicles
Programmer - Fat Tails
Indicator - Visual EMA
System - Sharkys
Broker - Mirus
Data - ZenFire
Platform - Ninja
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futures.io (formerly BMT) Member Of The Year - Fat tails
futures.io (formerly BMT) Thread Of The Year - EURUSD 6E Euro
futures.io (formerly BMT) Programmer Of The Year - Harry , Fat tails
futures.io (formerly BMT) Indicator Of The Year - SessionIndicators by Fat Tails (Pivots, VWAP)
futures.io (formerly BMT) System Of The Year -
Best Futures Broker -
Best Data Feed -
Best Forex Broker -
Best Stocks Broker - TOS
Best Trading Platform - NT7
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how about in order to refresh our memory pls attach or mention the significant contribution of each nominee too, which would be very helpful for those who wish to acquaint themselves with trading progression within bmt, OK? thx much again.
This thread is a detailed account , a memoir , of my own path in real money trading . What should make it significant is that others here at futures.io (formerly BMT) encounter the same things that I do , and have , in their trading endeavors . What I …
futures.io (formerly BMT) Programmer Of The Year: Fat Tails
futures.io (formerly BMT) Indicator Of The Year: Visual Ema/Sma (FT)
I am still relying on NinjaTrader to code my indicators and have recently played around with adding secondary bar series to indicators, so I just want to share my experience and show what currently can be done and what can't be done.
Of course …
futures.io (formerly BMT) System Of The Year: our own
Best Futures Broker: Velocity Future
Best Data Feed: TradingTechnologies
Best Forex Broker: IB
Best Stocks Broker: IB
Best Trading Platform: Ninja Trader
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futures.io (formerly BMT) Member Of The Year : Fat Tails
futures.io (formerly BMT) Thread Of The Year : Unofficial NT8 wish list thread
futures.io (formerly BMT) Programmer Of The Year : gomi (less productive yet still most skilled surgeon!)
futures.io (formerly BMT) Indicator Of The Year : bThinkPlanAction (terratec)
futures.io (formerly BMT) System Of The Year : errr...Myst (Ducman)
Best Futures Broker : Crossland LLC
Best Data Feed : Kinetick
Best Forex Broker : LMAX
Best Stocks Broker : InteractiveBrokers
Best Trading Platform : NinjaTrader 7
I'd wish there'd be more categories, like first 5 categories not necessarily from futures.io (formerly BMT) to crosscheck winners and broaden horizons.
Also,
- futures.io (formerly BMT) webinar of the year ==> Peter Campbell M3
- Best webinar (if seen elsewhere)
- Best trading book ==> Al Brooks' price action trilogy (sorry, I'm anticipating the end of the month )
- Best autotrade signals company ==> Currensee
- Best historical market data vendor ==> TickData
- Best CFD broker ==> GFT
- Best trading event (expo, seminar, etc) ?
- Best traders' settlement dreamplace (taxes, laws, life in general)
Could they be considered ? Gathering opinions on those fields could be even more interesting to me as we could say they might be less "documented" or made bold, although just as useful.
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I thought of starting this thread and request for the Perry's Trading Method Indicators and template for Elite members.
Can someone post it here? A template will be helpful to ensure proper settings are selected.
Thanks
Mike
BEST OF TRADING …
futures.io (formerly BMT) Programmer Of The Year: Fat Tails
futures.io (formerly BMT) Indicator Of The Year: Visual Ema/ Sma (FT) Coding Multi Time Frame (MTF) Indicators with NinjaTrader
futures.io (formerly BMT) System Of The Year: our own
futures.io (formerly BMT) webinar of the year: An Afternoon with Big Mike Webinar: An Afternoon with Big Mike
Best Forex Broker: IB
Best Stocks Broker: IB
Best Trading Platform: Ninja Trader
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futures.io (formerly BMT) Member Of The Year: Fat Tails
futures.io (formerly BMT) Thread Of The Year: Panda Warrior Chronicals (super humble guy with lots of discussion of mental slip ups and corrections)
futures.io (formerly BMT) Programmer Of The Year: Not sure since I don't care for fancy indicators
futures.io (formerly BMT) Indicator Of The Year: You
futures.io (formerly BMT) System Of The Year: My own
Best Futures Broker: Velocity
Best Trading Platform: RT Investor/MarketDelta
Best Webinar: An Afternoon with Big Mike (this is probably the best webinar up there period. Mike can we someday get a follow up about what has been improving your trading - I'm sure you have continued to improve?)
Best Trading Book: Not from this year specifically but Enhancing Trading Performance by Brett Steenbarger
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futures.io (formerly BMT) Member Of The Year - Fat tails
futures.io (formerly BMT) Thread Of The Year - dunno
futures.io (formerly BMT) Programmer Of The Year - Fat tails
futures.io (formerly BMT) Indicator Of The Year - divergence
futures.io (formerly BMT) System Of The Year - dunno
Best Futures Broker - IB
Best Data Feed - zenfire
Best Forex Broker - dunno
Best Stocks Broker - IB
Best Trading Platform - ninjatrader
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Not sure about many of the categories but here are some of my preferences:
futures.io (formerly BMT) Programmer Of The Year - Fat Tails
futures.io (formerly BMT) Indicator Of The Year - Tie between Zondor and Tim's version of the Volume Ladder and the Initial Balance indicator by Fat Tails. Not sure if those were created this year though.
Best Futures Broker - Advantage Futures
Best Data Feed - CQG
Best Stocks Broker - Thinkorswim
Best Trading Platform - CQG for Order Entry and NT for charts
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futures.io (formerly BMT) Member Of The Year: Fat Tails
futures.io (formerly BMT) Thread Of The Year: The Elusive Price Action
futures.io (formerly BMT) Programmer Of The Year: Fat Tails
futures.io (formerly BMT) Indicator Of The Year: Gomi's Volume Ladder
futures.io (formerly BMT) Webinar Of The Year: Al Brooks on Trading Price Action plus Q&A
Best Futures Broker: Mirus
Best Data Feed: DTN IQ Feed
Best Forex Broker: MB Trading
Best Trading Platform: NT 7
Best Trading Book: Al Brooks Price Action
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futures.io (formerly BMT) Member Of The Year -- Lornz
futures.io (formerly BMT) Programmer Of The Year -- Gomi
futures.io (formerly BMT) Thread Of The Year -- EURUSD 6E Euro
futures.io (formerly BMT) webinar of the year -- FulcrumTrader on Cumulative Delta Volume
Best trading book -- The Daily Trading Coach: 101 Lessons for Becoming Your Own Trading Psychologist
Best Futures Broker -- Mirus Futures
Best Data Feed -- Zen-Fire
Best Trading Platform -- Investor R/T
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futures.io (formerly BMT) Member Of The Year: Fat Tails
futures.io (formerly BMT) Thread Of The Year: undecided
futures.io (formerly BMT) Programmer Of The Year: Gomi
futures.io (formerly BMT) Indicator Of The Year: Gomi's Volume Ladder (all of Gomi’s indicators are in the indicator of the year category)
futures.io (formerly BMT) Webinar Of The Year: FulcrumTrader on Cumulative Delta Volume and Al Brooks on Trading Price Action
Best Futures Broker: Mirus
Best Data Feed: Kinectic
Best Forex Broker: not applicable
Best Trading Platform: NT 7 and IRT
Best Trading Book: Reminiscences of a Stock Operator
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Best Futures Broker - Mirus /flexibility in every way and commissions/
I would think "Best Options Trading Platform" shall be added to.
This would be ThinkOrSwim /TD/ for me.
Please add:
Best Trading Platform - Infinity / Transact
I did not see it on the previous posts yet unless I've missed it.
So far I've found this platform the best for rapid entries.
Inifinity is also used by a few pros I follow at the TTM team.
atata
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futures.io (formerly BMT) Member Of The Year - Fat tails
futures.io (formerly BMT) Thread Of The Year -
futures.io (formerly BMT) Programmer Of The Year - Fat tails
futures.io (formerly BMT) Indicator Of The Year - Visual EMA/SMA, Volatility Bands, and GOMI MP
futures.io (formerly BMT) System Of The Year -
Best Futures Broker - Mirus
Best Data Feed - IQFeed
Best Forex Broker -
Best Stocks Broker -
Best Trading Platform - NT7
Best Trading Book - Trading in the Zone - Mark Douglas, Markets in Profile, Jim Dalton
Best Webinar - Fat Tails Session Indicators
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futures.io (formerly BMT) fatty
futures.io (formerly BMT) perryg
futures.io (formerly BMT) fatty
futures.io (formerly BMT) visualSMA/EMA
futures.io (formerly BMT) perryg
futures.io (formerly BMT) fatty/perryg
Best i use AMP/TOS
Best CQG
Best -
Best -
Best NT
Best -
dont believe anything you hear and only half of what you see
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futures.io (formerly BMT) Member Of The Year : Fat Tails
futures.io (formerly BMT) Thread Of The Year : price action
futures.io (formerly BMT) Programmer Of The Year : Fat Tails
futures.io (formerly BMT) Indicator Of The Year : Visual Sma/Ema
futures.io (formerly BMT) System Of The Year :
Best Futures Broker : Mf global ( )
Best Data Feed : Kinetick
Best Forex Broker : I'm looking for a good one, I hesitate between MB trading, Lmax and Oanda
Best Stocks Broker : InteractiveBrokers
Best Trading Platform : NinjaTrader 7
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Best Trading Platform : NT7, second is MC.
Best futures broker : Amp Global or Mirus
Best datafeed : CQG or TT (had issues with Zen this year)
Best Stock broker : IB
Best forex broker : ????
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futures.io (formerly BMT) Member Of The Year.....................sam028
futures.io (formerly BMT) Programmer Of The Year..............Fat Tails
Best Futures Broker.............................Deep Discount Trading
Best Data Feed....................................TradingTechnologies
Best Trading Platform...........................NinjaTrader, TT
Best Trading Book................................Al Brooks Price Action
Math. A gateway drug to reality.
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Best Member...The German Fox Hunter....FAT TAILS
Best Thread...Jeffs CCI
Best Programmer FAT TAILS
futures.io (formerly BMT) Indicator...anaSMA now VisualSMA by Fat Tails
Best system....CJ Booth
futures.io (formerly BMT) webinar...Perrys Platform
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futures.io (formerly BMT) Member Of The Year : Fat Tails
futures.io (formerly BMT) Thread Of The Year : price action
futures.io (formerly BMT) Programmer Of The Year : Fat Tails
futures.io (formerly BMT) Indicator Of The Year : Visual Sma/Ema
futures.io (formerly BMT) System Of The Year : Perry G
Best Futures Broker : Mirus / Optimus
Best Data Feed : Zen-fire / Rhytmic
Best Forex Broker : Oanda
Best Stocks Broker : InteractiveBrokers
Best Trading Platform : NinjaTrader 7
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futures.io (formerly BMT) Member Of The Year: PerryG
futures.io (formerly BMT) Thread Of The Year: Perry's Trading Method - Elite Members
futures.io (formerly BMT) Programmer Of The Year: Fat Tails
futures.io (formerly BMT) Indicator Of The Year: d9WaveletToolkit
futures.io (formerly BMT) System Of The Year: Perry's Trading Method
Best Futures Broker: Dorman Trading
Best Data Feed: Zen-fire
Best Stocks Broker: TradeStation
Best Trading Book: Encyclopedia of Candlestick Charts by Thomas N. Bulkowski
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futures.io (formerly BMT) Member Of The Year: Fat Tails
futures.io (formerly BMT) Thread Of The Year: Perry's Trading Method
futures.io (formerly BMT) Programmer Of The Year: Fat Tails
futures.io (formerly BMT) System Of The Year: Perry's Trading Method
Best Data Feed: Kinetick
Best Forex Broker: MB Trading
Best Trading Book: Master Swing Trader - Farley
nosce te ipsum
You make your own opportunities in life.
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Moderator Notice
Please note, while I appreciate the sentiment of nominating me for best member, I will not allow voting for myself so please instead vote for someone who will be eligible
futures.io (formerly BMT) Member of the Year: Fat Tails
futures.io (formerly BMT) Programmer of the Year: Fat Tails
Best Webinar: Fat Tails on VWAP
Best Linebacker: Fat Tails
Best Late Reliever: Fat Tails
Go to Guy on 3rd Down Conversions: Fat Tails
Most Valuable Rookie Card: Fat Tails
Best Fox Trotter: Fat Tails
Best Book: Suri Dudella
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Thanks guys.
Just a big reminder, now with about 1 week left to go before nominations close, and voting begins... The general idea is that if someone has not nominated a member, thread, indicator, system, etc etc etc, then it will not show up on the list of available choices when it comes time to vote.
So you should make sure you have nominated who you think should win. Last year people complained after the fact because they did not see their choices during time to vote. But they never nominated them, so that is how it works.
I may add some more on my own, but in general, make sure they are nominated before Nov 30th.
MT Member Of The Year - Fat Tails
futures.io (formerly BMT) Thread Of The Year - EURUSD 6E Euro
futures.io (formerly BMT) Programmer Of The Year - Fat Tails
futures.io (formerly BMT) Indicator Of The Year -
futures.io (formerly BMT) System Of The Year -
futures.io (formerly BMT) Webinar Of The Year -
Best Futures Broker - IB
Best Data Feed -
Best Forex Broker - IB
Best Stocks Broker - IB
Best Trading Platform - NT
Best Trading Book - Elder, Come into my trading room
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futures.io (formerly BMT) Member Of The Year - Big Mike
futures.io (formerly BMT) Thread Of The Year - Unknown
futures.io (formerly BMT) Programmer Of The Year - Fat Tails
futures.io (formerly BMT) Indicator Of The Year - futures.io (formerly BMT)EnvelopeExpansion
futures.io (formerly BMT) System Of The Year - Unknown
futures.io (formerly BMT) Webinar Of The Year - Fat Tails
Best Futures Broker - PFGBEST
Best Data Feed - PFGBEST
Best Forex Broker - PFGBEST
Best Stocks Broker - Unknown
Best Trading Platform - NinjaTrader
Best Trading Book - SuperTrader - Van Tharp
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I would like to acknowledge futures.io (formerly BMT) for its generous contribution in educating the community of traders. It is, in my humble opinion, the best forum out there for any serious trader. Thank you Big Mike for putting all of this together! You are awesome!
Having said that here are my nominations:
futures.io (formerly BMT) Member Of The Year - Fat Tails
futures.io (formerly BMT) Thread Of The Year - Perry's Trading Method
futures.io (formerly BMT) Programmer Of The Year - Fat Tails
futures.io (formerly BMT) Indicator Of The Year - MASlopeMulti V2.4
futures.io (formerly BMT) System Of The Year - JeffsCCI
futures.io (formerly BMT) Webinar Of The Year - Perry's Trading Platform
Cheers!
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futures.io (formerly BMT) Member Of The Year - Fat Tails
futures.io (formerly BMT) Thread Of The Year - Primary source of income: how many have made it?
futures.io (formerly BMT) Programmer Of The Year - cbritton, stockjock, fat tails
futures.io (formerly BMT) Indicator Of The Year - no clue
futures.io (formerly BMT) System Of The Year - no clue
futures.io (formerly BMT) Webinar Of The Year - Ichimoku w/ Chris Capre
Best Futures Broker - ThinkorSwim lol
Best Forex Broker - ThinkorSwim
Best Stocks Broker - ThinkorSwim
Best Trading Platform - ThinkorSwim
Best Trading Book - Master the Markets Tom Williams
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futures.io (formerly BMT) Member Of The Year------Fat Tails
futures.io (formerly BMT) Thread Of The Year-->.Jeffs CCI
futures.io (formerly BMT) Programmer Of The Year--->Cory
futures.io (formerly BMT) Indicator Of The Year-> Price Action Swing by dorschden
futures.io (formerly BMT) System Of The Year--->PerryG
futures.io (formerly BMT) Webinar Of The Year-->Perry's Trading Platform
Best Futures Broker--->Optimus
Best Data Feed----->DTN IQ
Best Forex Broker------------>Currenex FXDD
Best Stocks Broker-->IB
Best Trading Platform--->Sierra Charts
Best Trading Book---->Murphy's Technical Analysis
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futures.io (formerly BMT) Members of the Year: I nominated Big Mike as the futures.io (formerly BMT) Member of the Year, and at his request, I'd like to nominate the following members who directly or indirectly helped my trading with their posts:
Eric J
Fat Tails
Tigertrader
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Thanks guys.
I will be organizing the nominations and will be back in a few days to start the official voting process, so that you can each cast your votes in the various categories.
well I was missing nominate a couple of things that had pending....
Best Book. Market Profile. Really twisted my brain.
Best Platform. Ninja Trader.
Best data Feed. Blank. (have zenfire but will look forward to upgrade to kinetic or CQG upon brokers availability and cost)
Best Broker. Blank (have AMP but think that the service is costly for what they deliver)
Best Indicator...Visual SMA by Fat Tails (although they are other great ones thanks a lot to all programmers)
a big thank you to BIG MIKE. Since I subscribed to the forum in March this year I have had the greatest time of the times going through the threads and learning and re-learning. Big Thanks to all those generous members like Fat tails, Jeff Castille, Perry G ( Cherry G?), Charles Booth, Sharky, The Wizzard, Gomy, Cory, Zondor.... and many more whose posts change lives with their GENEROSITY and HIGH SPIRIT
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futures.io (formerly BMT) Programmer Of The Year - Harry [Fat tails]
Best Futures Broker - Interactive Brokers
Best Data Feed - Zen Fire/Kinetick
Best Forex Broker - MB/Ducascopy/Interactive Brokers
Best Stocks Broker - Interactive Brokers
Best Trading Platform - Ninja Trader/Multi Charts
Best Trading Book - Market Wizards and The New Market Wizards - Jack D. Schwager
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Tip
Now that the voting is open, I'd like to remind everyone that if they don't like the choices (nominations), then they need to do a better job of participating in the nomination process next year.
So if you feel something is missing from the list in a certain category, please make sure you take the time to participate in the nomination process next year.
I want to thank everyone who did participate in the nomination process this year, and I want to thank everyone that will participate in the voting for the next few weeks!
We wish to thank you for voting us the "Best Trading Platform of the Year" and for voting Kinetick Silver for "Futures Data Feed of the Year", we are truly honored.
We also wish to congratulate all the winners and special thanks to those who contribute to this forum in ways that benefit the NinjaTrader community. We appreciate it!
Thank you from all of us at NinjaTrader, LLC!
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Bronze with the automated trading system 'Myst'. Thanks for the recognition guys, I really appreciate it. It supports me in developing the system even further and maybe even develop the sequel to 'Myst' . I still have some new ideas that I want to try out.
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