Recent content by Proudrebel

Canadian daytraders should brace themselves and read the following document that I found on the IB Discussion Board: Investment Dealers Association of Canada Proposed Regulations 2500 - Day Trading and 100.22 - Margin Requirements For Intra-Day Exposures and Proposed Policy No. 10 It...

Just read the old Questrade thread from 2002 and would like an update. As I understand it, the $25 per stock/per day fee is now gone - which is good. The T-Rex software seems ok. Now that Questrade has been around for a while it would be interesting to hear traders experiences with the firm.

Hmm I've never been charged that way. On Friday, for example I offered 1500 shares at 2.24 and was partially filled for 300 shares. Price dropped so I changed the price to 2.16 and was filled for the remaining 1200 there. I was charged $10 for the trade. A couple days earlier I had a similar...

The beauty of IB is that you CAN change your price, re-transmit and have it fill all as one order. You can do this as many times as you like and it will always remain one order, with the savings in commission over 500 shares. :cool:

FYI, Swiftrade changed its payout structure recently. Traders pay pass-throughs and fixed costs (software, bullets) and then receive a percentage of net (sliding scale, starting at 35%) from the first dollar.

This seems to be an area of real confusion so I want to open it up to Canadian IB users and simply ask: is anyone trading with IB over a cellphone in Canada? Do any of the services (Rogers, Telus, Bell Mobility, Fido) work with IB? What about getting your phone unlocked? If anyone knows the...

Apparently there is an E*Trade Pro office in Toronto now but I have been absolutely unable to get a contact phone number for them. I'm interested in trading there so if anyone can post contact info - or any information about them at all - it would be appreciated.

I was idly skimming through a trading book called "Electronic Daytrading to Win" when I came upon some history that readers of this thread might find rather interesting. It's kind of a long passage so I've edited it down as much as possible. "In September 1988 to cripple this new and growing...

Great idea. I'm trading the DAX and would be very interested in exchanging ideas.

Any other traders in Ottawa here? Raise your hand, give a shout. :)