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Try turning off ssl and see if it improves your connection. Mine did but I cannot say if that was really the reason. I still have occasional very short disconnects but not the frequent ones before.

Another lesson - the market doesn't care about what you believe.

shneed, i use cci and least square moving average. learned it from woodie's cci club.

If your broker is IB, then you can use IB's data feed. If not, other low-cost alternatives are money.net and marketfeed. -johnny

I upgraded to the latest version of IB and noticed that some hotkeys are not behaving correctly. For example, I used to be able to add a market data line by clicking in an empty row and typing the symbol. Now, when the symbol includes one of the hotkeys, such as T for transmit, C for cancel, B...

I agree that identifying one's weakness is important to improving one's discipline. If one is aware what these are that contributes to losses, one should be able to eliminate them. In my case, my trading journal helped me identify my common mistakes, such as not adhering to set protective...

I'm fairly new to tape reading. Since this thread is about tape reading, I also would like to ask for suggestions, tips on improving tape reading skills? What do you look for when reading the tape? Thanks.

With the risk of holding positions overnight, GNSS and SEPR immediately come to mind, I know many still conitnue to hold positions overnight. I know daytraders don't have to worry about this. With the rest, what strategies do you have for taking stocks overnight. I think this is going to be...

Thanks guys for this wealth of information. Because of my time zone (Guam island in the Pacific), I normally swing trade because I have to sleep just when the market starts and awakens during the last hour of trading. Thus, I have to put stops to protect me against any major event while I'm...

Thanks wwatson and rtharp for the comments. However, I am still curious to find out the reason behind market makers action to hit the stops first before letting the stock go the other way. Why do they want to take the stops out? Are they just scalping or is there any other strategical reason...

Used 754.2 whole day Friday and did not notice a problem. I even traded relying on the quotes and did not have problems. I don't know if this matters but my system's config are: P3 850 Mhz, 512MB RAM, Windows 2000 Professional, 56K modem connection.

agent99 & vikana, I had 754.2 but I did not have the problems both of you had.

I have read somewhere that market makers at times will take out stops first before making the move to the other direction. For example, before a stock moves up, the sell stops just below resistance are first taken out before going up. I am thinking this could be the reason why sometimes after I...

Has anybody used the TWS Excel spreadsheet for trailing stop? I would like to use trailing stop but I am lost on how this can be done in Excel. I am not that familiar with Excel's programming language. Would anybody be kind enough to show how this can be done or if anybody has a written code...

One of the indicators used by traders to determine S/R is the Moving Average. However, different traders use different MA periods. It seems that the most popular are the 20, 50, and 200, though, others use other numbers. To further complicate this, there is simple or exponential MA. I have...

TERN - Stock has broken uptrend line and now Looks like it has formed a bearish flag after a downtrend. The stock has consolidated higher on low volume which is bearish. I would wait for it to move higher on good volume before I go long on this one. There seems to be not much buying interest...

Check out www.starmine.com. They also rate participating analysts from different brokerage firms. - johnny

I remember in one of IB's communique that there is a fee for Level II. I think it's $75. Anybody knows the status of this now? Since it is available as a choice when you right-click on a stock with Best routing, one can accidentally click on it. Is one going to be charged Level II fees that...

Ability to enter several orders in one OCA group from a single screen or dialog (order) box would be handy. After entering a position, I always enter an OCA group order - one sell order at my target price and one sell stop order to protect against unexpected price movement. Currently, I have...

A different question. I have never tried putting stops during pre-market and after hours trading but have always wondered if IB stops are also valid during this time. There were occasions when I entered a position pre-market or after-hours but would like to put a stop right away since I won't...