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I tried doing a search for "Great New Pattern" on the new search page, and it gave an error about the search string not having enough words. Are the new searches working for anyone? -v

Tradex21, you shouldn't be slamming a senior member of this board known for his worthwhile contributions. Hitman is a 21-year old licensed professional trader with Worldco on Wall Street who does all of us a service by posting the details of his trades, winners and losses. Like many on...

This link has information about the S&P futures/cash premium and program trading levels: http://www.programtrading.com/buysell.htm When you see the LAST field of your premium symbol reach the threshold values, that is when program trades usually happen, as I understand it. -v

Uh, ktm, I think you mean Jesse Livermore. His pseudonym was Larry Livingston in Reminiscences Of A Stock Operator. "All gamblers die broke, and most of them become degenerates along the way." -advice to Victor Niederhoffer from his father -v

Dave's solution sounds great. Of course, I think it would be even nicer if the routes ARCA and REDI defaulted to their old active routing behavior and we got an IOC checkbox for these ECNs on the order ticket page (granted this would be slower for entering orders than Dave's way once you...

It's stunning that the active routing of ARCA/REDI was taken away, but perhaps even more unbelievable is that we can't hit liquidity away from the NBBO on these ECNs. It begs the question why the route is even there. As I understand it, if you have a hypothetical stock CRAP, whose bids...

It would of course be great if you could leave a stop order in place overnight, and the market was open and liquid enough for your stop to protect you if the market moved against you. It would change the risk/reward ratio for swing trading if this were true. Stock index futures provide...

Yes, you should be able to access the Index Arbitrage Meter even from a stock account. Type in the symbol NDX, select Index from the menu. You can do the same for SPX (are there others?). Once you have a row containing the index, right click and choose Show Arbitrage Meter. -v

I sent CNBC several e-mails during the past few months, to Squawk Box and Power Lunch, regarding the new margin rules, their arbitrary unfairness to "small potato" traders, the potential for quicker financial ruin for those with access to 4:1 margin, and possible market impact in terms of...

The "Trading Lesson of the Week" at pristine.com (free service) discusses double tops and bottoms. It looks at moving averages, relative strength (stock vs. futures, etc.), and prior trend to try to determine whether the structures will hold or fail. Ironically, using their techniques...

The Globex2 system is the electronic market used at the CME. It is similar to other electronic markets like the Nasdaq. The e-minis ES and NQ trade exclusively on Globex2. The larger SP and ND contracts trade in an open outcry pit during the daytime, and on Globex2 for the overnight...

Eldredge, I wish I knew why this occurs. From the feedback by Babak and others, it seems ZoneAlarm works well with Win2K. I'm in the dark ages running Win98SE. I wonder if this problem is specific to Win98. -v

The same thing happened to me when I tried using the free software firewall ZoneAlarm (v 2.6.88). Similar setup to Eldredge's, cable modem. Only the TWS seemed to be effected. The page switching slowed to a crawl. I tried to find a workaround but ended up ditching the ZA. -v

One of the contributors to the book "Day Trading On The Edge" discussed how two traders could use the exact opposite approach: with one buying breakouts and the other fading them. If they each used discipline and sound money management, and each was comfortable with his own style, each...

Folks, thanks for the info regarding the e-minis and NexTrend. Good news if it's $10/mo. Churasan, I believe the CRB index (cash) is CRY0'CE in NexTrend. I did a search in the Symbol Finder for Description contains CRB and Market Type is (any value), and that was the first item in...

Here is the email I received from NexTrend on this issue. I don't think they will support $10/mo e-minis. --------------------------------------------- In a memo dated December 14, 2000, we were notified by the CME that the CME would no longer offer a $10 real-time streaming quotes...

Barchart.com has intraday futures charts. Here is an example for the NQ...

I created an Excel file using QLink instead of the web query. Imported only daily close data for the past 200 days. Got a correlation of 0.82 between LTR and MO. Loews is primarily an insurance company, but they also own Lorillard Tobacco. Got a 0.95 between RJR and MO. Also, I got...

From this, it looks like the QQQ trades in a minimum size of 1 share. Trust Details Expense Ratio: 0.18% Short Selling Allowed: Yes, uptick exempt Ticker Symbol: QQQ Options Traded: Yes, American Style Trading Increment: $0.01 Trustee: Bank of New York Min Trade Size...

Hitman and Dustin, I compared LTR and MO and was surprised at the -0.30 score, so I checked the raw data. It looks like dividends are appearing in the table in place of the OHLC data. Not sure if this explains the correlation result. The market-topology site said these stocks were...