For those looking to get the float from a free data source, moneycentral has a page that provides the shares outstanding and the float percentage. You can then calculate float from there. The url is http://moneycentral.msn.com/investor/invsub/ownership/ownership.asp
Just put in the symbol...
SpyderTrader,
Thank you for the welcome. I have been studying this journal for a month or two and started real-time trading with it a couple weeks ago. I have been very happy with my results so far and look forward to the continuing evolution of the system.
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Hungry:
I have noticed that if I enter alerts before market opens and leave the "Trigger only if crossed" checkbox checked that QuoteTracker may not alert as I expect. The work around I use is to both uncheck the "Trigger only if crossed" box and wait for the market to open before I enable...