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I have been trading for a bit more than 4 years, and have been profitable for the last 3 years. This month is so boring. I have never seen a month like this. Spy looks so dead and there is no real volume. Most of the volume generated are program trading. Sometimes I'm begging for like one...

I trade daily using two 24 inches monitors from my office and home. I've always tried to think of a way to be able to trade away from my office. My trading strategy requires me to use two screens. I have considered the following: 1. A regular laptop with the capability of plugging...

I've been trading for 3 years and just started to realize how little i know my software. I'm using Sterling Trader pro but I think this question should be rather universal. 1. What are (bid%), (ask%), (last%) or (Yclo%)? Can anyone give examples? 2. What are index, index divisor, delta...

Is there any way to config your hot key so that it automatic switch the "sshrt" function to "sell" when the stock is not shortable? i know i can set up different hot keys for selling stocks or covering positions, but its just so annoying to do this just because a few of the stocks cannot be...

municiple bond funds are usually really illiquid, i kno there is an etf for bond funds called mub. i'm wondering if there is any futures for municple bonds as a whole which traded pre-market. thanks~

We are a group of traders who all trade individually. We were former Switftrade collegues and decided to move out in the summer of 2008. Most of us trade between 40k shares to 100k shares a day. We are very consistent. Most of us have 1 losing day the most every month and the loss is really...

I have questions regarding the filter feature. Is it possible to filter the entire market and show stocks currently has a really large order sitting on bid or ask? (large order can be defined as 5 times the average orders size or can be defined as a certain number of size). I looked thru the...

I trade wmt, dis, hpq and sometimes xom. I don't know if those stocks r good for scalpers but those r the stocks people trade in my office and they r making money off them.