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How can one get Yahoo Finance or Google Finance or any other free news source to send u email notification (or any other form of alert) on news such as earnings, official press releases etc, on a select list of stocks that you u are interested in. The news/alert doesn't have to be real time...

These comments are for IB. For stocks, use SMART for placing/canceling orders and the cancellation fees will be near 0 per month. But for options, canceling frequently can really hurt you. Every slight change in your options order will add up cancellation fees. The details are at IB's site.

https://www.thinkorswim.ca/tos/myAccounts/displayRates.tos "$9.95 per trade (market or limit orders; 5,000 shares maximum) For orders over 5000 shares, any order types other than market or limit, or extended hours orders the commission for the entire order is our per share rate of $.015...

With IB one can trade stocks from 4am to 8pm. Questrade 8am to 5.30pm. What are the time periods for other brokers like ETrade, Ameritrade, ToS?

I typically put gtc orders at different price points. After I have accumulated say 1000 shares. I will put gtc sell orders in numerous 200 share sized orders. Right now I have to manually count all the shares that I have put up for sale to make sure that it (sum of shares put for sale for a...

1) FAQ about a)issues with IB or b)potential gotchas (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gotcha_(programming)). To a person building an ATS that relies on volume triggers, the issues 2) and 3) mentioned earlier are false positives. Issue 1, means inadvertently you end up shorting. TWS doesn't need...

Is there a FAQ on IB? Has one been compiled here on ET? Thanks

I have some questions on IB. Thanks in advance for your answers. 1)Say I have 600 shares and I place 2 sell orders for 300 and 400 (total 700). The 400 is a mistake and should be 300. The net result is that I will be selling 100 shares more. Is there a way to configure IB so that I am...

Newsstrike sent me login details . Thanks

Over the last 2 weeks, I tried to contact Newsstrike for a login and password but I have not got a reply. Is the site still working? Anyone still using it? Thanks

I quickly looked up the API and I think reqMktData() and reqRealTimeBars() should help me in getting started.

I have Java programming experience and so was wondering if this feature could be implemented by me using IB's API. Those with experience on IB's API think it's doable with what IB exposes? I shall have a first look at the API. Thanks

Thanks TheAngryHermit. IB has the daily highest % gainer/loser scanner with diff refresh rates. However, I mostly trade stocks that I am comfortable with. Whose balance sheet, & biz I know. I populate my watchlist with these in IB and buy when there is a drop. I have gtc buy orders (with...

QuoteTracker replied saying they don't have this feature. Does any other tool have this feature? Thanks

In IB, is there a way to set an alarm that will activate when any of the stocks on watchlist (page) go up or down a specific amount or %? Say there are 50 to 100 stocks in page/watchlist and if any of the stock on that list drops say 20cents in a minute or so, then an alarm should go off to...