Recent content by pollock

Hi folks, I usually trade stocks that are older than 1 year. I'm starting to trade younger stocks (IPO'd less than 1 year ago) with good results. However I'm finding it hard to organize myself efficiently everyday before the trading day. Too much data flying around. Is there a paid service...

TOS has a Hard-to-Borrow club - are you in it?

Hi, I'm looking to simulate candlesticks from past days. So when I start the clock at 9:30 ET for a given day in the past, I'd like to see the 1 min candlesticks for the stocks I want. And to be able to trade them and see my pl Is there any software that does this to your satisfaction? Do you...

Hello, I want to simulate a day in the past and am using ThinkorSwim OnDemand ThinkorSwim has the OnDemand, but it doesn't have market scanners for a given day in the past. any suggestion where i can get market scanners for a particular day in the past? i'm just looking for pre-market gap...

yes monte carlo simulation can be fun. i'm still struggling to understand how you use the ideas of the Central Limit Theorem to trade intraday on the long side? :p

Hello, Can I pick a day in the past, then scan the biggest pre-market movers for that day and paper trade them? I have a live and a paper accnt in IB thanks!

great book for mkt-makers. made sense 15-20 years ago when exotics were big. safe to ignore this book now.

Hi folks, Here's my simple underlying philosophy that has helped me TREMENDOUSLY in intraday shorts: It hurts to have a collapsing stock much, much more than it satisfies to have a equally performing stock. I've structured my strategies around this SINGLE idea. I've used gappers, green-to-red...

nice answer. ty! while i have your attention, any suggestions on an scanner? I use TC2000, and just need basic pre-market scans. ty

can you confirm that IB is indeed the TOP trading platform for shorting stocks ? and the reason behind it? that would greatly help my decision! :-) gui was one of the reasons, IB customer service is terrible too, compared to ToS. if it's indeed the best, then i don't mind using it.