Recent content by Kilgore Trout

No kidding Fitz - I didn't even notice this thread was from April until I read your post. Mark - I don't know about anyone else - but I doubt I'd ever do business with you based on your posts on various threads. It might be worth some time and money to have a good PR person show you how to...

Some sort of charting from livecharts was free until 2 days ago - they were putting the eminis out in realtime for free - I saw it myself. And the fact that they no longer are doing it seems to have caused an uproar in many places where "traders" chat. And I'll still never understand why...

Why in the world would anyone depend on some "free" chart service in order to save a measley $100/month? If you are trading the eminis and $100/month for decent charts is a problem you should probably consider doing something else. I'll never understand why some traders are so worried...

Certainly the weak points are going to be different for each user. For instance, I could care less about quotesheets or a scanner - and even less about a backtesting module. Ensign does have something they call "playback" where you can playback in either real time or double time the ticks of...

I've had the exact opposite experience - I've had (and have seen) user requested changes/features added to the software in as little as a day or two. The developer makes himself available for Q&A on Paltalk, and also holds an informal class online on different features on a weekly basis...

All you have to do is look at a chart of something like SUNW or CSCO with a charting package that will show you the "bad prints" on the bars - like QCharts. Funny how many "bad prints" are quickly followed by a reversal (at least short term) in the price of the stock.

You said "I notice the spread is .25, does this hurt or help if you are going for .10 - .20 cent moves in the index?" I'm not sure where you saw that - the minimum tick on the emini-nasdaq is .50, so the spread is always going to be .50 or more. It is usually .50 during the regular trading...

I'm new to PATS, I also use PFG Best. I was suprised to find that with everything PATS can do, the one thing it can't do is tell me how much money is in my account. Is this a limitation imposed by my IB or the clearer? I was told that there was no on-line or realtime way for me to get my...