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I daytrade stocks and my limit orders never get filled.

I understand that some sites are faster at executing market orders. What I want to know is if there are some sites that fill limit orders more frequently than others and/or faster? I thought that depended on the market makers, but someone said it depended on the online broker.

Here is where my question is coming from. Whenever I find a stong stock with a decent bid/ask spread, they only trade one a day or never or twice at best. If I put in an all or nothing order, it never takes. So, when I don"t do the all or nothing order, they will trade something absurd like...

Thanks so much for taking the time to reply. I am just going to read more books and delete my thread.

fair enough! How do you screen for them?

What screening process do you guys typically use in looking for stocks. I will also go out on a limb and ask what stocks do you specifically trade? I have been having trouble today :)

thanks for your honesty! you drunk?

in the same day? This is my second day in my trading career and I read some things like never trade in and out of the same stock on the same day because you don"t want your hand to be revealed. However, I don"t really make huge trades, not yet anyway. So, will the people on the other side use...

Good advice! Thanks!

Does anyone have any tricks to beating other traders? I think that I have the NYSE open book covered and it as if someone is spying on my computer. I will put in a bid, assuming I have the highest, and someone puts in my bid every time I bid at the same time before me. Obviously, I am very...

Thanks so much for the replies, everyone!