Recent content by JohnTrader

Don't you guys use basket orders? Or what?

Try Wealth-Lab. It can do it all.

When I submit orders through the basket I cannot see those orders on the portfolio tab even if I already have a position for that stock. Does anybody know how to available that? I tried to find settings for that everywhere, but portfolio does not show orders submitted through the basket. :(

What would have happened if you gave a Market order to sell it?

So your decisions on limit orders are based on daily charts of all stocks and submitted to the market before it opens?

DeeDeeTwo Do you backtest your strategy? If you do, how do you manage to backtest such huge amount of data?

Why software such as Amibroker, NinjaTrader, Tradestation, Multicharts, Wealth-Lab… would not fit your needs?

I would not agree with the article. I think the lower the Volume the bigger the Volatility but not the opposite.

If it is 3% it is insane. It is to paralyze the entire industry. I do not think any sober regulator may propose such thing. For an individual investor the smallest possible tax would be the best, just to get rid of the High Frequency bots so market can move wider.

Why 3% if the Tax is 0.2 % for round trip? How does it become cumulative if it is 0.1% per side?

This article gives examples from 1986. How can we compare 1986 to 2012? In 1986 the intraday trading would cease in Sweden because it was 1986 and because it was Sweden which from the beginning did not have high volume of trading. Even todays NASDAQ volume is more than 10 times higher than it...

What is your definition of professional? No, I do not know any derivatives traders but I do know stock traders who make more than 0.1% per trade. I am talking about volatility of the market. If we look on 1999,2000,2001,2002 we see much more volatility which goes down since then. I assume...

If we look from the other prospective, this Tax would actually help the ordinary trader to make profits in the market. It will get out High Frequency Traders from the game and cause more instability. Taxing 0.1% each side would cost 0.2% to close a position, but on the other hand, increased...

Can we trust this document? http://www.penson.com/uploads/Safety_of_Customer_Assets_-_INS-0080v2.pdf It explains that clients funds are segregated from the company funds. So whatever happens with Penson our funds are safe...?