Recent content by freeyourmind

I'm actually looking for the same thing, but in the US equities market. It'd be great if the MSN advanced stock screener would give a stock's average daily range in it's results. I'd love to find a filter for average daily range for stocks over the last 3 months or 6 months, whatever. It...

So I got a couple good PM's in response to this. It seems like the best way to go about getting a data feed is to create an account with a broker/dealer who receives the ITCH feed directly. Can any of you recommend good b/d's to provide this service? We'd like to be able to just create an...

I'm working with a couple partners and programmers to develop a black box. We'd like to find the best way to plug into a market feed so we can test our product in a live market environment. Ideally, we'd like to plug directly into INET using their ITCH datafeed. Unfortunately, it seems they...

Dilemma: A small private institution wants to develop an algorithmic trading system. They want to minimize lead time to develop the algo, but also want to minimize start up costs. The institution has one programmer in house but would like to use an algo platform to start with so they don't...

I've been talking to the traders around the office and it sounds like their profits dropped dramatically after the market went to pennies. So going to nickels definitely helps the specialists and those of us who trade the same stocks day in and day out ("surrogate specialists"). It definitely...

I posted the following in the other message board about decimalization. "I've only been a professional trader since decimals have been around. Never traded sixteenths or eighths. For those out there who have traded professionally for a while (before decimals), will this make trading a lot...

Hey Eldredge, how much do you trade? Are you more of a swing trader, or trading tens of thousands of shares a day? I think that trading with a longer term time frame would make pennies more favorable. Just curious.

I've only been a professional trader since decimals have been around. Never traded sixteenths or eighths. For those out there who have traded professionally for a while (before decimals), will this make trading a lot easier, or just a little? I know I get pennied every so often. Will this...

Yep, those were scratch. I'm in a scratch league, but they calculated scores based on handicap so I didn't win much. Maybe if this trading thing doesn't work out, Bright can sponsor me on Tour.:D

(off topic) Yeah, not bad for an old guy. We had our sweeps last Wednesday. Had 210, 222, 256, and 214. Only if these OO's were that easy! Heard you guys might have some bowling lanes in your house. Is that true?

Don, I don’t understand you. The opening orders were a very profitable strategy for a number of years. Your traders as well as others were making great money because of the specialists’ imbalances at the open. But then you decided to start advertising this strategy on the internet and...