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I've been a telechart user for 10 years as well and think it's awesome. The sector groupings are pretty wide, as the OP mentioned. Google lists competitors, which may narrow it down some.

Google finance. Not an exhaustive list, but quick and free.

I was out of the office and came back just after SY started making it's psycho move. I missed the first minute but as soon as I saw the chart I thought "buyout". So I was very very cautious and dabbled with just a few hundred shares. Even at that I was down 3 grand in a blink. I touched...

When I hedge with an ETF, it's done as part of a pre-defined plan. One of my strategies involves putting on positions that meet certain criteria. I will take these trades even if it gives me a lot more longs or shorts. But I don't want the strategy to be dependent on market direction, so I...

If things were so mispriced, why weren't you in there on the offer?

Have you listened to the audio call of the action in the pit? JP Morgan, Citi, Morgan Stanley, etc selling size repeatedly all the way down. THERE WAS NO FAT FINGER. It was all real.

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This journalist did his homework. He's reporting what happened and looking at time and sales, a far cry from perpetuating the fat finger bs that keeps floating around. This is how it really went down. The reason stuff fell to a penny is because all the algos just turned off. There were...

Sterling and IB

Well it was time for volatility to revert and blow out some of the complacency in the market, but it delivered a lot bigger than I expected. P/L every day this week was reflecting it, along with volume. M-F pl: +17, -23, +24, +100, +14 for $132,000 on the week on 1.5M shrs traded. Best week...

Yep, that's how it works. And why I'm long a lot of this stuff overnight.

You think people will take the risk of providing liquidity if exchanges decide to just take away "unreasonable" profits? How'd you like your stop to get triggered with NO bids?

Well this blows. Nasdaq has decided the bust point on IWP is 18.66. I'm long 1000 shares at 15.01. Closed at 47. I figured I'd lose it anyway, but damn, it sucks when it is that close.

Quick update. Yes, insane day, as you would imagine. Actually it started out kind of lame, nothing really working, down 3k, including 2k on an error trade. Took a break and was going to write the day off and quite early. Came back just to check a couple open positions before I took off just...

There's a lot of variance in "news". It covers a wide spectrum from earnings, upgrades, lawsuits, other people's opinions, etc. There is a lot of subjectivity on how to handle it. My experience is that it does tend to go in cycles from working trading news to not working. But that's just...

90% of my gains this week came from one strategy. Another one accounted for 20% and the rest were flat or down a few percent. I don't keep track of trades per day, but it was busier than average. I'd estimate 40 to 50. My swing strategy is the only one that I actually use hard stops on...

Yup, that's the one. I've had a few over the last 8 1/2 years. Sometimes I actually made money. But each one teaches me something and refines the system further to prevent it from happening again.

Great action in the market this week, hope this pick up in volatility can last a while. Even with the vix still around 20 there were lots of big moves in individual stocks and sectors. +38,000 for the week, 688,000 shares traded. Daily pl was +16, +11, +8, -8, +11. Best week of the year...

That's an impossible question to answer. Probably would have done about the same as I did. I'm trading basically the same strategies since that time. Probably would have done better in the first couple years with the refinements I've made since. Could you pls re-size your chart or remove...

I would track it manually, but only if it's something I could do without taking too much time. I usually use excel to calculate and track positions so I'd know what I would have been in, then at the end of the day, copy and paste it to a log, or something like that. I don't have a bare...