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    Late Evening/Twilight Trading

    make sure your quote vendor can give you live 1 minute , 3 minute , 5 minute charts after hours ... and know the recent support / resistance levels whether in daily or 60 / 30 minute charts good luck ps watch out for the M.M.'s gunning for stops or pushing the stock you...
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    Becoming a pit trader

    I know this is off the main topic but it is related news from the NYMEX exchange "Beginning this summer, the Exchange will launch new investment opportunities in the energy markets with its e-miNY energy futuressm contracts, fractional versions of the highly liquid crude oil and natural...
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    IB Glitch this AM

    the swiss office was kind enough to email me my statement and my small overnight positions look correct but I cannot trade anything presently hopefully all will be good for the opening bell :)
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    Quick Scanning of Intraday Charts

    I thought only Bloomberg gives you this can you ge this on e signal?
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    If NYC is 'incapacitated ... ???

    and the good ol USA this place looks safe enough http://wairarapa.co.nz/akura/ :p
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    Brokers that allow three decimal places??

    I think datek online lets customers do this what you save in placing an order this way is probably lost in commissions though , unless you trade size of at least 1000 shares
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    Other markets to trade??

    how does one get quotes for these products and whaat is the cost on the various brokers or trading software platforms?
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    MurreyMath

    is his stuff as hokus as the delta stuff that used to be hawked by welles wilder ? or is it useful like gann angles, fibo #'s etc when put in the proper context ?
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    foreign currency trading VS. equity trading

    as far as FX goes ... I do not have that much experience but logically it makes sense to check out the integrity of the firm (s) due your homework ... ask around ... be careful of bad firms ... maybe you can send email to gaincapital and ask them if you can work for them? I...
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    IB Execution Speed

    I just want to report that I had some problems with BEST EX even with Island ECN briefly in the first 10 minutes of trading 930-940 am EST I was able to execute with Instinet things were back to normal for me afterwards slippage early on cost me a few $ but it was not...
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    some of the Market Wizards are taking hits.

    <I think that dennis / seykota / turtles represent the "big trend" contingent- the guys who only take end of day signals> turtles added on or offset their positions intraday too if they thought the prices levels might hold or continue in the direction of the trend by the end of the day
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    Broadway Trading?

    Anyone here know if the traders there also have suffered in the last 2 yrs like many of us? When I was there in the late 90's guys like Serge made 6-7 figures based on what I can see at their website those days are over .... or at least the number of traders having positive...
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    Quote.com really blows today

    I am cancelling my Q charts end of the month going back to prophet charts will consider e signal as well
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    Will This work?

    You can trade options ... same $1 per execution $1 for 1 option $1 for 100 shares there will be some more slippage perhaps and the moves intrday will usually be less but that is one way to trade as often as you like without the 25 K rule limits
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    Daytrading the SPY or QQQ...?

    try to keep a daily record of where the indicators such as $TICK , SOX , Dow Jones are when the SPY and QQQ make their daily ranges Also note how often prices seem to gravitate to the big #'s 00 , 25 , 50 , 75 100 etc intraday also consider how the $dollar , Bonds , Gold , Oil...
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    IB Improvements (Part 3)

    I have noticed my TWS workstation startup much faster in the latest 1-2 versions usually I can see prices within 15- 30 seconds of login start. Thanks Def + Company :D
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    IB Improvements (Part 3)

    CBOT Eliminates Market Data Fees for IB Customers Effective May 1, 2002, the CBOT has eliminated market data fees for IB retail customers for all CBOT Level 1 & 2 quotes. CBOT futures include the newly launched mini-sized Dow futures, US Treasury Bonds, Notes & Fed Funds...
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    Breaking Trades ?

    well today came and went with no bust or 1 % adjustment on the trade to my account ... I guess I will have to wait until T + 3 next week just to be sure thanks people for taking the time to comment on the matter ... if the trade fully clears next week I will describe in more...
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    Breaking Trades ?

    <a mistrade (e.g. INTC: 26.02, 26.05, _27.10_, 26.05) can be broken, however, it is done in about 60-80% of all cases.> do you mean in 60 - 80 % of the time the trade at the bad price stands as done if it is not clearly erroneous trade?
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    Breaking Trades ?

    this am I saw trades go in a listed stock pre market about 1 % off where they should have been trading. I was able to offset 100 shares I was long overnight and then decided to sell a few hundred more when I saw the higher price that I saw still being bid I asked my broker to...
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