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OH BOY .... looks like its laundry time hope I do not find out later I got taken to cleaners with any late fills on my 2 stuck orders :confused: :confused: :confused:

my futures and equity TWS workstations are koo - koo translation .... not working ... stuck prices :confused:

I guess your entry signals are pretty tight else you would consider scaling in and out of your 10K blocks? i.e. for 3K each ... ok this equals 9K 36.00 35.75 35.50 bidding on island for example? or are current daily ranges too small to do this? Have you considered using E...

I am sorry to hear that RCG is having Introducing Broker problems? I worked for them in nyc 84-92 I remember one summer after Collins merged with Rosenthal and they brought in First American accts things were messed up for months in some accts and we did not get a day off all...

try their websites www.isld.com is one there are others

with the ETF's trading ... one can always hedge if globex crashes during market hours of course this assumes you have a stock trading acct somewhere funded with enough cash to do this

in june 2000 ( ? ) I went short 100 shares RMBS afterhours my broker could not execute a buy for me and I did not have a backup broker as I watched RMBS rally for about 30 minutes and $30 .... thank god it was only 100 shares and I made back the loss in a week funny thing...

hello everyone this is an update ... I was told that if I am using IB's software to send an order via their BEST EX. ... I am fine and do not have to worry if however I SEND an order DIRECTLY to the ISE EXCHANGE I MUST WAIT 15 SECONDS before my NEXT order can be submitted to...

Hi Does anyone know the minimun size option order that can be sent to the I.S.E. Exchange , and the minimum amount of time an limit order needs to be posted before one can cancel the order.

any opions on if this book is too advanced for someone who is not an experienced option spread trader? I once started reading Natenburg's (spelling)? optoins book many yrs ago and got lost in the "greeks" I heard charles talk and got the book at the trading expo but a first skim...

I wish to thanks everyone who found time and energy to reply to my questions about vacations and time off from trading. now ... I think its time for me to take a vacation from trading and do 5 loads of laundry (yikes) seth

I am interested in some feedback from traders who get no compensation or salary when on vacation ... how difficult is it for you to completely walk away for a week or two and block off thoughts of trading and income Also if you plan your time away far in advance or if it is after a...

Hitman <WorldCo LLC , New York City was fined $175,000 for violationg NASD daytrading rules > The report says this was from October 1998- March 2000 and involved a former CFO ? I hope you guys are running a tighter ship now ? Any comments ? Seth

Sorry if this is a newbie question ... Does AIQ or Metastock or any of the other good trading software programs available to us provide a way to look for bollinger band breakouts on a end of day basis? Perhaps on the internet there is a website that one can do this in? I would...

I find my best results are when I trade E Mini's less in scalping mode and more in trying to take a portion of the days range home. I will admit I usually have trouble with discipline here and tend to try to scalp more than I should. I also have stopped trading mini NQ's presently...

maybe this will work ? buy 156 , sell 100 , leaving you with 56 ?

would not you be able to buy 144 and sell 100 thus leaving you with the 44 you want to keep ?

wow ... 434 am ? time to go back to sleep ... ok ...our stock index futures ... will tend to follow the overseas movements of various markets ... If Europe falls out of bed beween 4-6 am EST we usually go that way. There are periods however that are really quiet ... so it is a...

I also suffered yesterday with the missing quotes and negative values and other funny stuff on my standalone version of the TWS. I called the IB Tech desk this am and was told to use the website version of the TWS for trading. this seemed to fix all the problems I was having thursday.

anyone ever see this indicator? I remember hearing about it a few yrs ago As far as $Tick goes ... when it makes an extreme move in one direction ... I try look to fade the move Mark Cook keeps track of $Ticks on a cumulative basis see active trader magazine Aug2001 issue