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It worked great for me. Thanks a million. Too bad you didn't work for IB!

Almost, Can we get a tax deduction for those drinks?

Thank you very much guys for taking the time to post your advice. I did as most of you said and last weekend I talked to a successful trader that I know locally here. I'm relatively shy so it was really hard to ask for some help but she told me more in a few minutes than I could possibly learn...

Does anyone here have an opinion about "Daytrader's Bulletin" at this site: http://www.daytradersbulletin.com/ They give signals to trade S&P Futures contracts and some daytrading education. I'm just a beginning trader and I thought it might be an easy way for me to learn to trade futures...

Anyone else here ever try to daytrade Canadian stocks? What's your opinion? It's bad enough already that we pay way too much for comissions and such but there are far worse problems for us. Take a close look at the spread between the bid and ask prices on the TSX as compared to any US markets...

Most of my experience has been with long term trades where I'll try to buy a stock at the bid or just slightly above the bid. I find that this doesn't work very well for short term trades when trying to buy a stock on a breakout. Most times the bid will keep rising and get away from me. Would I...

I always have my computer set up with two hard drives both running Windows XP. I find Windows XP to be a lot more reliable that Windows 98 or Windows Millenium. Windows 2000 is pretty reliable too but there are some programs and such that won't run on it since it is already an older program...

I have the same concerns myself about having to pay full income tax on any short term profits. I was going to use the American portion of my RRSP to daytrade with and thus avoid any taxes. I don't think you're allowed to short stocks in your RRSP though.

Are there any suggestions or opinions from anyone as to what they think is the simplest and most profitable strategy for selecting stocks for daytrading?