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On both Thursday and Friday this week (8/3 & 8/4), near the end of the day, the Nasd comp chart turned decidedly north . I was not expecting this, especially on friday. was this program buying? or was it general buying pressure? I have noticed moves like this before, often in the...

Babak, well put! or should i say... nice call?

thanks greg also rtharp and def, I just wanted to float this idea to see if it might take hold...you know, a long shot but why not try? I am fairly ignorant of differences in different types of brokers, I did not even realize that trading Echo entails going to a trading room (i.e. another...

def, thanks for looking into this issue... but i think your report pinpoints the problem...when a stock is 'in play' is exactly when many short traders start watching for an opportunity to short what goes up must come down (not always, but it often works this way, especially for the...

gene, can't you run a screen at, say 10:00, which asks for % gainers in the last 30 minutes? (or maybe the last 29 min) my subscription to traderbot just expired so i can't verify this, but I am certain that you could do this because I created many screens similar to this. Only I did not...

thanks for the replies... I have two ISPs but both are POP3 yes, these are home computers and they are not connected to any network My version of Outlook Express has no "Other" tab under Tools/Options. I looked in each tab that is there but no mention of auto archive. i looked in...

janko, I like the amplifier reference, I know wht you are referring to but I don't think RAM size can be 'creatively advertised' in the same way. To see how much RAM your system thinks it has, right click on the "My Computer" icon then choose "properties" . This is for W2K and I think W98...

I experienced a computer quirk today. I have a W2K machine and Outlook express is my email program. Today every email in my Inbox dated prior to 7/31 was deleted. It gets quirkier... I use two computers for trading, both the same, but they are not networked or connected in any way. I...

Turok, From your previous post: "My latency hovers around 60ms and if it rises over a couple hundred (the graph changes colors) I know my data is beginning to become stale." Bear in mind that a couple hundred ms equals 1/5 of one second. If your decision making abilites, not to...

Turok, I agree with you - pingplotter is an excellent utility which I use daily. for anyone not familiar with this program, it is similar to tracert but more user friendly(much more) But I am curious about you setting the program to ping once per second. It seems to me that pinging that...

size matching is not necessary: if you currently have one slot filled with 128MB, the next slot can have 64MB or 256MB it makes no difference however, you should match the type. Go to Crucial.com and input the brand and model of your PC and they will show you available options which will...

def, I know next to nothing of Echo (et al), only what I have read in recent threads here. So I don't have an opinion, positive or negative, regarding Echo and its peers. In any case I would not suggest that IB change to become like any other broker. I think IB is a real good thing, and I...

Thanks, def, for replying to my post. I appreciate that. I don't mean to press the issue too much, but I have some more examples of Nasdaq stocks un-shortable at IB. Today, (7/31) for example, WFII, EXPE, BBOX, ECLP, and PCLN (that I know of) could not be shorted. PCLN is a 6M volume...

The reason I started this thread was to offer the suggestion that IB could set up a new Pro trading division set up in such a way that regT would not apply (i.e., set up similarly to Echo and others). Keep the IB interface and everything else . This would solve problems for under...

I have been reading the interesting thread regarding Echo trade (and others) and prop trading vs. retail trading. It is reassuring to know that there are options available. Yet, some posters have noted concerns about pro trading firms which deserve consideration. All I actually know for sure...

You could look at Traderbot (traderbot.com). It is not a data provider but a real-time screener. You can create, store and run pre-defined screens choosing from many parameters. It is possible to do a "percent-gain-vs-open" or even a percent gain for the last n minutes. You can set many other...

I have recently (about a month ago) moved to IB from Datek. I found out what many of you already know...IB is reliable, professional, fast...and the commissions are unbeatable. I like their "Best_ECN" routing. I am also impressed that IB has a representative who monitors this site...

DSL has only just made it to my town, (Bloomington, IN) and that only from high priced out of town providers, so I have not tried it yet. I have 2 seperate connections on two non-networked PC's: 1) 128K ISDN run through a 3Com Office Connect Lan Modem - the modem is great, my ISP has has...

Thanks to everyone ...but I did not express my original question well. Datek is my only point of reference, it is the only broker I have ever used. If I do look at IB's actual short list, it won't mean that much to me because I have never seen a Datek short list (if it even exists) I...

I have been trading about a year, all on Datek only. Of course Datek has many problems...some have cost me $. And I am not certain that I want to be a guinea pig while the bugs (I assume there are some, from past experiences) get worked out of Datek's latest offerings. But...Datek does have a...