Recent content by dexgreen

Hi all, Anyone got any recommendations over what accounting firm to use for help with taxes for an active trader. Thinking of incorporating and need some help finding someone familiar with active trader nuances to help me. Love to hear if you guys have any favorites to use (or to avoid)...

Hi all, I want to automate my trades. I currently have a 3rd party software program that executes on my desktop and will come up with a stock symbol, appropriate number of shares and type of order based on various strategies. I now want my 3rd party program to pass the info to a 'brokerage...

Hi all, Hope someone can assist me. Am thinking about moving over to IB and am deciding between bundled and unbundled in terms of commissions. I trade about 200k shares per month. Folks at IB told me that if I trade less than 300k shares, I should go bundled. What surprised me is that they...

Sorry ... meant to say Wealth Lab

Thanks for your posts. I have been corresponding with the folks at World-Lab (via the forums) and have learned that the version I will want is version 5.1 which is due out next quarter.

Hi all, Does anyone know anything about Fidelity's Wealth Lab Pro product version 5.0 which they will release this summer. Fidelity claims you can automate your trading with this though from what I am reading up, its limited. Fidelity says you can do anything you want to do. Any...

Hi all, I am thinking about automating my trading strategies and have been looking at IB, MB and Genesis who all let you have 3rd party software interface with their APIs so that you can automatically generate your trades. I recently heard about Fidelity's Wealth-LAb Pro which will be...

thanks for your post. will probably go with ib.

for securities only

i am fairly new to active trading and am currently with cottrade but shopping around for a new brokerage that has great execution. i am leaning towards ib. my main question is: how often do they either go down or slow down so much that its the same as being down. scottrade is probably down...