Recent content by tradebanzai

Hi all! I've been papertrading stocks and options for a year. Results are not bad. Now I need to start real account cause further development needs real money. But my problem is I don't have a mentor and don't belong to any traders'/financial community/organization. I always feel like I'm...

Thanks, I've just read your thread when you had the same issue. So I've turned my QT time to GMT and it works fine now. Though it's not so good since i used to watch time as US Eastern. What do you mean saying "check off"? Does it mean turn off?

Does IB provide intraday backfill? (for example, for Medved QT). If yes, mine doesn't seem to work.. Thanks

Hi all! I use QT+Ameritrade as data source (have been using it for a year). Today when i launched it QT refused to login to Ameritrade. Does anyone has the same problem? I have the latest version of QT (3.8.2B BETA). What's the problem? Thanks

Hi all! Have the next problem with IBs papertrading account during the last couple days (including today). When I click "Transmit" button, nothing happens and the "T" buttons remains the same (ie doesn't hide or go away). Order is not executed. For me it happened on all my stocks (high...

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Hey guys, Just wonder. ACI moved about a point in about 20 min with pretty big volumes. Why? What happened? Thanks

Hi all! 1. Could you please explain to me more about underfunding. Let's suppose we have $15000 and going to daytrade stocks (let's forget for a while about $25000 restriction). Could you please explain, if this funds are enough, or not and why. My idea is you need to use your funds for MM...

Could you please explain to me more about underfunding. My idea is you need to use your funds for MM (let's say, loss per trade). So, if you have, for example, $15000, so you can have a loss $150 per trade. Hence you plan your day. You will need to have 30 "-" trades IN A ROW to lose $4500...