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Hi Helen Glad to see you've joined us at ET. Looking forward to the next meeting. David alias: spike @ T2W

Hi Breakout Thanks for sharing that with us. I am curious how you manage to use a typical trailing stop of only 6 ticks. This appears to be close to the "average" bar length on the ES 1 min chart so I would expect to get stopped out very frequently with such a tight stop. Could you also...

dufferdon, On LSE stocks I can track transactions as "buys" or "sells". Sort of a T&S with cumulative totals. At the end of each day I have approximate figures for total buy volume and total sell volume. The info is available free at www.advfn.com under "trades". Unfortunately I have not found...

Rigel So how come I regularly see more sell volume than buy volume but the price goes up? (and vice versa) Something to do with market makers perhaps? spike

Nice examples qwik. MANU looks very promising. Another candidate? SEPR sitting at 50% Fib, just above 20ma, support at 38% and 62% Fib confluence spike

From rq discussion group: -------------------------------------------------- Dear Users: I am extremely sorry to announce that the RavenQuote server has been turned off. I regret this decision, all I can say that is was not my choice to turn off the server, and I have done everything...

Interesting latest trade update on alfatrading: CREE short entry 11/20/01 $24.65 exit 11/21/01 $22.15 Both my chart packages show the high for 11/20/01 as 24.50, and the low for 11/21/01 as $22.54. Mmmmm, call me an old sceptic but ............ spike

My experience with IB's online chat has been mixed. Even though they may treat you like a moron, on the whole I have found that if you are persistent, firm but polite, persistent, patient, persistent, clear with your facts, persistent, throw in the odd compliment (I appreciate your help etc)...

thanks guys - a great help! spike

Have you tried accessing the support group at http://groups.yahoo.com/group/RavenQuote I have always found their tech support to be responsive. They take an active part in the support group. spike

When trading NASDAQ stocks, is it best to use TICK.NY or TICK.NQ? I would have thought it logical to use TICK.NQ but I was advised tonight to use the NYSE TICK but can't see why. spike

Take a look at the size of the typical false breakout for the stock that you are trading and then set the stop to just beyond that value - sometimes referred to as "adding fluff". Tharp recommends using the volatility of the stock to set the initial stop - e.g. 3x its average true range over...

Stockcharts is another good site too: http://stockcharts.com/def/servlet/SC.scan

I currently use Ravenquote and AIQ TradingExpertPro. Both have good TA screening capabilities, EOD and rea ltime. I have tried StcokwatchPro but found that it had some very annoying bugs e.g. candles descending off the chart. Ravenquote cannot backtest but its charts are vastly superior to AIQ...