Recent content by ac14461

Rather than upgrade the OS, I will go for upgrading the hardware ( faster CPU, Video card,etc) & network bandwidth as that will be far more beneficial.

Most trading applications are still built around the XP platform and bugs worked out over time. While Windows 7 seems to be very appealing, its yet to be extensively tested. I will rather stay with a time tested OS than jump onto a new OS.

You will laugh, but I was scalping a penny.

Checking around to see if anyone has used Abletrend / ASCTrend (http://www.wintick.com ) with tradestation and its good, bad and ugly sides as far as establishing entry and exit points. Thanks.

I believe I found out what may have happen. Like every newbie, I got excited that my first trade of 10,000 Long 0.01 and stop market -0.01 went profitable. I repeated this 3 more times with loses. I was scalping in a very narrow margin and also what I discovered in my losing trades that...

Kind of new to trading. I use TradeStation and trade "citibank" in block of 10,000 shared and just found that for orders using their default "intelligent routing' the orders actually get sent to a market maker of their discretion leading to severage slippage due to time lag ( 7 minutes to...