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Baron, It would be useful to be able to recommend posts like they do over at the Motley Fool site. This would then give more recognition of quality over quantity. Richard

Babak, Thanks for your suggestions. I looked over the Wilshire web site but wasn't able to find any list of stocks (unlike the Russell site). I've emailed them requesting a list. I'll see what comes back. Richard

tntneo, OK, but then you must specify what 'TOP' is for you ! Please re-read my posts. I'm looking for the top capitalized companies. rtharp, The Russel 2000 is known as a small cap list with a lot of names. I'm not sure why you're refering to the Russell 2000, I mentioned the Russell...

ArchAngel, There's no such thing as the "TOP" 5000-6000 stocks. Going out that far makes "top" meaningless. The market cap of the stocks becomes more or less unimportant after the top 1000 or so stocks. Thanks for your reply, although I find it some what quizzical. The Frank Russell...

Does anyone know where I can get a list of tickers of the top (by capitalization) 5000 to 6000 stocks traded on US exchanges? I know I can get this from the MSN Stock Finder but only in lots of 100 stocks. Richard

Stevene9, They're here (they've been here for a while, haven't they?) http://www.cbot.com/cbot/quotes/equity_futures/0,1963,DJ,00.html Richard

ArchAngel, Thanks for your input. I'm looking into a strategy that involves mechanically puting on a OTM put credit spread on the SP500 futures at the beginning of each quarterly cycle for a maximum hold of 3 months. In order to see what type of return I would have gotten with this...

Margin requirements on options on futures is determined by SPAN. PC-SPAN is available for purchase for $500. I'm interested to know whether SPAN is freely available somewhere on the web? If not, what do most people do to assess margin requirements? Also, what do people do about strategy...

Tom_P, That was the funniest thing I've read in a long time. Do you moonlight as a commedian on the weekends? The markets are not open, you got to do something, I guess. Thanks for your wit. Richard

ADCTrader, Thanks for your contribution. I checked out amazon.com, which Appel book do you recommend: 1) Stock Market Trading Systems, or 2) Winning Market Systems Or, let put this another way: which book where you refering to? Richard

IndexTrader, You might be interested to look at the article series on the use of Excel in trading written by Murray A. Ruggiero in Futures magazine: April 1999, p. 60-64: Trading in a Spreadsheet May 1999, p. 66-70: Trading in a Spreadsheet, Part II June 1999, p. 60-62: Using a database...

Today I did some further experimenting with running IB's client2.exe code which implements communication with the TWS with sockets. Today, was not a particularly good day to try this as the IB system was, for a lot of the time, painfully slow when working at all, as has been discussed in...

Splat, Probably the best known purveyor of signal processing applications to trading, at least for futures, is John Ehlers. His recent book, "Rocket Science for Traders - Digital Signal Processing for Traders" makes for interesting reading. It's quite challenging if you don't have the...

Alan, You don't need to know the password to use the demo TWS. Try it. The password (whatever it is) is ready typed into the password space when loging in. Richard

Wonderduck, >What's the user and password for the futures demo login I didn't need to know these to log in. These are automatically provided when you log in. However, from memory the username is "cdemo" and the password is hidden behind a bunch of *******.

Anyone here had any luck running the sample IB programs with the TWS futures demo or with your actual futures account. My tests with the futures demo (using ES and NQ futures) has shown limited success. It ignores ES market data and order requests; also ignores NQ data requests but...

dozu888, Thanks for your input. I just noticed that the solution to my problem was offered at Wealth-Lab.com by TraderNewbie who suggested I link statically with MFC (by default I was using DLL linkage to MFC). The program now works OK, and to quote dozu888, "And the fun begins". I think...

dozu888, I'm envious of your success. I'm still struggling. Since the begining of this thread I've moved on to a new computer running Win2000 (5.00.2195 Service Pack 2) and I've compiled under MSVC++ V5 (I also have V6). The error I get is that the instruction at address 0012ff24 (see...

Yannis, I know about as much about TCI as there is to know from visiting their website, speaking to their salespeople, I even spoke to the CEO. But I sure would like to hear what a bona fide customer has to say. After all, you paid $6,000 for a 2 day course which, as far as I know...

I just PM'd you with some questions about TCI. Please look for it. Richard