Recent content by ProTrade Greg

Many traders suffer from paralysis of analysis (too much data, too many indicators). Develop and plan that works for you, a plan that you can write on paper and strictly follow. Don't let emotions get in the way of a trade decision. Work with a firm that supports and educates you and provides...

Once you start looking for real-time tick by tick data in Excel, check out www.realtick.com. They have a very robust Excel DDE link with a sample spreadsheet and easy to use toolbar. You can also send orders from Excel into RealTick. ProTradeFinancial.com provides RealTick and other trading...

Our commissions have changed, new website coming soon. We also cater primarily to professional traders that require additional market intelligence and color throughout the trading day. We won't exactly compete with the cheapest broker that doesn't offer exceptional service. Our NYSE...

If IB doesn't offer this, RealTick does. We offer RealTick and many other products to our professional clients.

Check out the ARCA trading hours: http://www.nyse.com/equities/nysearcaequities/1157018931781.html Their morning auction starts at 4am EST. Just because a broker/trading product offers ARCA, doesn't mean you can trade that early though. It's up to the broker to set the time they want...

You should never use market orders before or after hours. Many of the same order execution rules don't apply and your liable to get a fill way out of the current market. Even during market hours, it's now always a great idea to use market orders. I've always suggested to use price + or - a...

Typically when you use an "auto" route, the software or execution server picks the route to use based on current market conditions and the specifics of your order. If a route is used that supports stops internally, usually you can walk away from your computer with the comfort of knowing your...

I suggest you consider RealTick. They are now owned by Barclays. You can trade just about anything through their product on most markets around the world. It really just depends on the broker you choose that is distributing RealTick. Check out ProTradeFinancial.com. We offer RealTick and...

I can't answer for WTS and Sterling, but we are associated with two clearing firms, Penson and Jefferies. It is very easy for us to get short locates from both clearing firms (we can usually do everything via IM very quickly). But both firms have extensive short lists to begin with. Check...

When a broker is limited to their own in-house trading product, customers don't have a choice. I would suggest using a smaller professional brokerage firm that is software neutral, which gives the customer a suite of market data/trading products to choose from. Consider ProTradeFinancial.com...

Please consider ProTradeFinancial.com. We are software neutral which allows us to provide the best available trading products on the market today. Currently we offer Wolverine (http://www.tradewex.com/software.htm) and Omni Pro. Both offer superior execution ability. Omni Pro offers great...

A successful trader should also consider professional support from their broker throughout the trading day. For example, at ProTrade, we have traders on the floor of the NYSE that provide market intelligence and color direct through IM on a intra-day basis.

Hello, we offer several solutions to our clients, and we're adding new ones all the time. Unfortunately, none of the products we offer have playback data available to use with a paper trading account. They all offer paper trading accounts...but it's usually with old data (several days or weeks...

I would like to compile a list of the trading products that allow end users to program trading models OR other features into the product. TradeStation is a prime example of a product that uses custom programming code to allow it's end users to do something different than what the program...