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Hey guys,
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 will then place these polls on the forum home pages during December and will update this thread with the results at the end of the year.
But why have you not included a category for 'Paid For' Trading Rooms?
I appreciate issues about promoting commercial vendors, but you do have categories for best broker and best data feed etc which are commercial endeavours.
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That's what this thread is for -- I'll listen to everyones comments for new categories and in the case of a paid trading room category, I'll read everyone's posts that are for or against the idea.
I vote ninja trader as the red headed step child award for the year. I think this is a valid vote since maybe they will finally realize there are customers in their business model
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[*]futures.io (formerly BMT) Member Of The Year----> Fat Tails
he has contributed to this community in a BIG way by developing and sharing indicators that are GREAT for reference areas (regardless of specific methods) and adding labels and visual references helping make our charts more SIMPLE to read.
[*]futures.io (formerly BMT) Member Of The Year----> ZTR
he has contributed with his big knowledge on price reading, shared a lot of videos trying to show us how he reads the DOM and he is a live example and motivation of how to fight with adverstity (and possitive attitude), which is something we experience in trading since we start on this business.
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[*]futures.io (formerly BMT) Indicator Of The Year---> "ana" set of indis (DailyPivots, opening range, Yest OHLC, Fibs, ADR bands, etc etc)
[*]futures.io (formerly BMT) Indicator Of The Year---> BSV39 , a GREAT tool to visualize Buying / Selling Preassure
[*]futures.io (formerly BMT) Indicator Of The Year---> Volume Ladder (nothing to say, it speaks by it self)
GT
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Trading system of the year : Perry's trading system
Indicator creator of the year : MWinfrey
Poster of the year : Fat Tails
Retail order front of the year : X-trader
Broker of the year: Velocity
Datafeed of the year : TT
Charting platform of the year : Multicharts
Be interested to see the paid room that does the best marketing (cherry picking winners etc, most logical approach). Also a tally of which paid rooms traders fell for but didn't work for them.. I have several to contribute..
futures.io (formerly BMT) Member Of The Year Just one??
futures.io (formerly BMT) Indicator Of The Year HighLowv1065 - (shameless coz it's mine but I love it and use it everyday.)
futures.io (formerly BMT) Thread Of The Year sHodsons Journal
futures.io (formerly BMT) Programmer Of The Year bukkan/aslan/sam028/ZTR - can't separate.
Best Futures Broker IB
Best Futures Data Feed IB
Best Futures Trading Platform NT7 ( less broken than 6.5 but still way ahead IMHO).
futures.io (formerly BMT) Indicator Of The Year ........GomMP
Best Futures Data Feed ..........dtn IQ
Best Futures Trading Platform ..........NT7
futures.io (formerly BMT) Programmer Of The Year........Gomi
That is shameless. Your exploit honest guys like Zondor and then just present those wonderful charts, so everybody thinks that you have created them. And now you are close to becoming the futures.io (formerly BMT) programmer of the year. Yep, I will vote for you!
Indicator of the year: Gomi Volume Ladder (I know it wasn't made this year but its just that good!)
Programmer of the year: Gomi
Member of the Year: ZTR, fiki, Zondor
Best book of the year: "Reading Price Charts Bar By Bar" (Al Brooks)
Best currency pair to trade of the year : GBP/USD
Best instrument to trade of the year : FDAX
unless there are more than one persons using the same thing, this is pretty much 1person get 1 vote, 1 indicator get 1 vote. But having said that I nominate rjay for his works on BidAskChurn and bidAskDelta.
futures.io (formerly BMT) Member Of The Year - Mike Winfrey
futures.io (formerly BMT) Indicator Of The Year - Kase bars? Not technically an indicator, but the only new thing I use
futures.io (formerly BMT) Thread Of The Year -
In a recent survey about webinars, a lot of members expressed interest in learning more about the elusive "price action" that many traders talk about and refer to.
It is my intent with this thread to try and document price action from my point …
futures.io (formerly BMT) Programmer Of The Year - Zondor
Best Futures Broker - still looking for a good one
Best Forex Broker - IB
Best Stocks Broker - TDA
Best Futures Data Feed - still looking for a good one
Best Futures Trading Platform - still looking for a good one
Best Forex Trading Platform - still looking for a good one
Best Stocks Trading Platform - TOS
Best Free Trading Room Service - never used one
Best Trade Management/Journal Software - tradingspreadsheets.com
I'll exponentially agree with nominating Jeff (other than BM of course ) for at least a couple awards. I've personally learned lot from his threads and look forward to many more! Sharky gets a very close second...
futures.io (formerly BMT) Member Of The Year: Sharky, Jeff Castle, Fat Tails
futures.io (formerly BMT) Indicator Of The Year: D9ParticleOsc
futures.io (formerly BMT) Thread Of The Year: Sharkys Real World Classroom, Three Setups, Analysis and comparison on different data Feeds and Platforms for Bid/Ask Studies, Trend Capture System
futures.io (formerly BMT) Programmer Of The Year: sefstrat
Best Futures Broker: Mirus, Optimus
Best Stocks Broker: Tradestation, TOS
Best Futures Data Feed: IQ, Zen, Rithmic
Best Futures Trading Platform: Not Ninja
Best Stocks Trading Platform: Tradestation, TOS
futures.io (formerly BMT) Member Of The Year ZTR
futures.io (formerly BMT) Indicator Of The Year Volume Ladder
futures.io (formerly BMT) Thread Of The Year Support from wife/kids/loved ones in your trading
futures.io (formerly BMT) Programmer Of The Year Zondor
Making NO errors is what establishes the certainty of victory...
Great idea with this survey / vote Mike,
I would stay away from the "Best Paid for Trading Room" category for many reasons as well.
At least for the next ten to twenty years or so, and then re-evaluate it.
"Best Free Trading Room" should work I think.
It will be interesting to see the results.
Thanks
Ron
futures.io (formerly BMT) Member Of The Year: Andy (ZTR)
futures.io (formerly BMT) Indicator Of The Year: GOMI's for NT
futures.io (formerly BMT) Thread Of The Year: All you need
futures.io (formerly BMT) Programmer Of The Year: Zondor
Cheers,
UC
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futures.io (formerly BMT) Member Of The Year - Fat Tails (a though one, but FT is incredibly knowledgeable and very patient and generous.... qualities that rarely accompany each other)
futures.io (formerly BMT) Indicator Of The Year -
Best Futures Broker - Crossland
Best Forex Broker -
Best Stocks Broker - IB
Best Futures Data Feed - Kinetick
Best Futures Trading Platform - x_Trader
Best Charting Platform - eSignal
Best Forex Trading Platform -
Best Stocks Trading Platform - TradeStation
Best Free Trading Room Service -
Best Paid Trading Room Service - BrooksPriceAction or at least Al Brooks for "Book of the Year"...maybe even "Book of the Decade"
bmt member of the year Fat tails
bmt programmer tough one but either gomie or richard at mtm
best thread jeff keep it simple or perryg thread
best trader hmmmmm i only know one or two traders that can outtrade me and neither are members here
coolest bmt member gary
best all around guy.ie trader, programmer, explainer, aslan or fat tails
all these are so hard mike there are so many really good guys here on bmt
jerk of the year either me or zoe or tro
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i agree with Steve on this.
many "for pay" trading rooms have merit and are worth mentioning to get feedback from members who have used them as a means of gauging their subjective worth.
i would like to hear from other members about their experiences using the rooms.
but if this idea is included there needs to be subcategories because some rooms trade only eminis while other trade stocks, etc.
In a recent survey about webinars, a lot of members expressed interest in learning more about the elusive "price action" that many traders talk about and refer to.
It is my intent with this thread to try and document price action from my point …
In a recent survey about webinars, a lot of members expressed interest in learning more about the elusive "price action" that many traders talk about and refer to.
It is my intent with this thread to try and document price action from my point …
In a recent survey about webinars, a lot of members expressed interest in learning more about the elusive "price action" that many traders talk about and refer to.
It is my intent with this thread to try and document price action from my point …
Site Administrator Swing Trader Data Scientist & DevOps
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Experience: Advanced
Platform: My own custom solution
Trading: Emini Futures
Posts: 49,785 since Jun 2009
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Starting on Wednesday Dec 1st, there will be multiple polls on the site to let you guys vote in each of the categories. I have used the nominations you made here, as well as added several of my own.
The voting will continue until Dec 31st, and the winners will be announced January 1st.
"Merit" is a broad term thats needs to be defined into smaller units ie: most seemingly logical approach, most entertaining(yes there are some good ones who make it fun to lose ur money,most obnoxious ,did I make money, most hocus pocus?...
Overall no room can beat the 95% loser, of ur money odds, if thats the only measure, this will be a short or no list..
Those running the room have better odds.
here is my greatest
most entertaining: " Billy" IOAM
most seemingly logical approach: backtothefuture
most expensive: Viper
least expensive: Woodies CCI
biggest dud: Felton trading, TradeMaven
most obnoxious : any room with a "BRIT" or pet trader
Site Administrator Swing Trader Data Scientist & DevOps
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I have dropped a few categories due to lack of interest.
Below is the list as it stands now.
If you have any last minute nominations for winners in each category, make them now. On Dec 1st I will put the official polls up and they will not be changed after.
Congrats to all of the winners. There are some amazing people here. And thanks to Mike and his moderators for curating the quality of the content and the personality of the community.
thank you very much for the two awards. I am glad that some of my contributions were useful to others and that I was allowed to hand back something in return for the tools, knowledge, and experience that are available here.
The single most important reason that I am an active user is the familiarity that has itself established between the members. Big Mike's is simply more personal and more fun than any other trading forum.
A big thank you to @Big Mike for his active and personal involvement, which makes this forum outstanding.
My personal vote for the futures.io (formerly BMT) member of the year went to Andy. Although I never understood, how he managed to read the DOM, he impressed me with his attitude and courage. I will remember him.
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On behalf of everyone at NinjaTrader, LLC, we thank all the members who voted for our NinjaTrader trading platform honoring us with 1st place in both the “Futures Platform Of The Year” and “Stock/Options Platform Of The Year”. In addition, we are enthralled to learn that Kinetick, a market data service we only recently launched in 2010 was recognized as 3rd place in the category “Futures Data Feed Of The Year”. Thanks to those members who voted for Kinetick.
We are extremely grateful for the acknowledgement and will continue to work hard to deliver a great trading experience for the years to come.
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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.
