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    Broker upgrades and downgrades

    I frequently read posts on this board that refer to trading on news, upgrades, etc, and I'd like to know if anybody can make money consistently by trading based on news. The way I was trained, we were told to ignore news, or at the very most, allow news to confirm a trade, never to allow news to...
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    NYC trading firms hiring?

    Schonfeld, Worldco, First New York Securities, ETG, are all proprietary firms, where you will be able to trade size without putting up cash. You will give up anywhere from 5%(Worldco) to 50%(Schonfeld) of your profits. Schonfeld probably has the worst deal structure, but offers the largest size...
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    Estimating todays volume

    Try writing a macro on Insight that will give, as its output, a ranking of stocks by their relative volume. Something like this: (today's volume(stock)/ average volume (stock)) / (today's volume(NYSE)/ average volume(NYSE))
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    IB Improvements (Part 2)

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    Estimating todays volume

    I know that Insight can handle relative volume, relative strength, etc. in real time
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    Estimating todays volume

    Why don't you just look at relative volume vs. yesterday(or 3-day avg) at the same time?
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    Insight vs. First Alert

    Anybody know how First Alert compares with Insight? Are they comparable systems? Is First Alert real-time. Is it customizable?
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