Recent content by TapeFighter

What I said is that whoever thinks that 0.05% is "small" doesn't know what the hell they are talking about. Even 1 pip is too much. The FTT is a scam for investors, nothing more nothing less.

Sarkozy is just pushing the globalists' agenda, or he just doesn't have a idea on how financial markets work? What the FTT does is taxing liquidity, not speculation. Whoever says a 0.05% isn't much is ignorant about how incredibly thin are profit margins are in this business - for market...

It's fast, but uncomfortable. Not to mention, that the popup shouldn't appear when you're trading non-US products because the patents can't apply.

That'd be a killer play, don't you think? You'd put TT in a situation where they can't win. Game over. :D

I don't see how it could fail. And, even if it did, at least you could use BookTrader to trade non-US markets. Not to mention TT has no right to (nor they can) know what software you're personally using to trade your favorite financial products. And if they do, that'd be privacy rights...

Hey, wait a moment. TT's patents are U.S. patents right? If so, couldn't IB register its TWS software in name of one of their European branches? Correct me if I'm wrong, but if the software you use is "not from the US", it should be able to use those features patented by TT such as static...

The problem I see is that should you use third party software as a frontend for your brokerage account, you must be completely sure that such third party is reliable. You don't want other people to have a chance to get access to your account number/password because if they do you're toast.

But using third party software on something which points to a brokerage account...eehheee.. he. :eek:

I'm not yet a IB customer so I can't vote on the poll, but here is my 2 cents. If the patent is about single click trading, then make it Ctrl+Click, Alt+Click or like that (just hold the Ctrl/Alt key and do the scalping with the mouse) until the TT guys give up. Problem solved.

nysestocks, I still can't figure the password. I've tried about 100 combinations including "Abercrombie_and_Fitch" and every twisted version that you can imagine and still I've got no success with the decyphering. I've even tried to brute force crack the pdf file but i've noticed it'd take years...

What about averaging down the stock while holding collars to avoid catastrophic losses from sending you to the poor house? I haven't tested it, it's just a idea. Collars limit both gains (since you write a covered call) and losses (you've got a protective put).

Market orders are "please screw me!!!" orders. If you've got no control over the price you've paying, how do you want to be profitable at all?

I wonder why people focuses on debating about how many people win and how many people lose rather than focusing on making money.

Well, it depends...if you're trading for a living, then you're likely to use a consistent, "safer" (that doesn't mean easier!) method such as scalping where you aim for small profits which add up at the end of the day. On the other side, investors or position traders which don't make their...

I've suffered a substantial drawdown in my first trade yet, by holding confidently the stock when almost everyone else thought it was going belly up, guess the result. Up +60% in a single trade. And I have to point IT HAS BEEN A BAD TRADE because I missed a +100% gain by getting greedy and ended...