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Easyrider, the disclaimer on time.gov is automatically set based upon the lag it detects in your connection. I can't believe that your satellite connection would give you a 1.6 second delta. At my office, using a low badwidth DSL line, time.gov never disclaims more that 0.2 seconds. So, I...

easyrider, there is no way to know for 100% sure that the time you are seeing is absolute, however, this service is managed by the U.S. federal government, whom, of course, is 100% trust worthy. :p If you want to keep your clock constantly in sync with such a clock, I would recommend...

After personally seeing the difference between simulators and real life trading, I personally think the only way you can simulate trading real money is to rig the simulator up to an electro-shock-therapy machine, and give yourself a few hundred watts every time you lose money. Other than that...

Pinging your data provider will only tell you a small portion of the story, as far as I can tell. Perhaps the connection between you and your data server is fine, but perhaps their connection to their data provider isn't so great. Or, perhaps they do some data scrubbing that is delaying your...

Htrader, Any discussion concerning real-time scanners that doesn't mention Neovest's First Alert would be lacking, IMHO. Arguably the most powerful real-time scanner to be found. Cheers. :) faction.

JJ - Quotelink supplies the following: Date, Time, Open, High, Low, Close, Volume reguardless of the time increment you select. Cheers. faction.

bmwstox, I am terribly uneducated concerning the specialists opening their books to the world. Where can I learn more? :confused: Cheers. faction.

the_dude, I opened an account with Datek a couple of months ago, like you, to use as a backup broker. However, I constantly had problems accessing anything on their servers, with the exception of their homepage (which came up every time). It was very frustrating. I emailed their customer...

For my style of trading, I can almost always buy below the ask. I use limit orders, set a few cents below the ask. If the specialist is being a real stickler, and not giving me my fill, it is no problem to change my order after a few seconds. But, then again, I'm not a momentum trader; the...

jj, Quotelinks is just a one time fee of $39.95. As for your other question, I have no idea. But, I do have something better. Their email: support@ashkon.com. If they get pissy about you using their support email address to ask sales questions, remember: you didn't get it from me, eh...

trdrmac, can Silicon Investor's charts export to ascii? What I am really looking for was is an ability to cheaply backtest some theories. I know TS is great for this, but it is also a tad on the pricey side. Being as I can code up my own backtests, assuming I have the data, it makes more...

Well, that is what I was looking for in the first place. Oh well. What's fourty dollars down the drain? Thanks for the post, Funster.... even if it is too late for me. :) Cheers. faction.

First Alert is $245 for the software, plus another $145 for the stream. If you use their brokerage account, you can get this all for free after so many trades (can't remember exactly how many that is). But, I really didn't like their brokerage account. Commissions were terrible. Plus, there...

jj_jere@hotmail, quotelinks.com will download 500 time blocks. So, if you select 5 minutes, it will download 500 five minute ticks. If you select days, you get five hundred days. etc etc.

Pardon my ignorance, but I was to the understanding that the $25k rule eliminated any and all trades after the initial three, not just those on margin. Am I mistaken? Cheers. :) faction.