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Since I can only trade for about an hour in the morning, I've been thinking to gap trading too, but for whatever stocks are making the news in the morning, not for SPY.

I am trying to find a method to scalp SPY in the morning, starting around market open, for about an hour (I am not a fulltime trader, so this is all I can do for now). Any suggestions? What I've been trying is this: 25 ticks chart with 24 period sma. Go short or long on the pullback to the...

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Actually, two questions: I sold short a stock on December 31st 2002, and bought it back on January 1st, 2003. Do I include the loss or gain in my 2002 tax. I think yes, because the sale was made on December 31, but then let's say that I buy back the stock not on January 1st, but after I file...

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Has anyone tryed this system. Is is worth the money? www.turtletrader.com

I have a DSL connection and I share it between my two computers. The computer that connects to the DSL gateway runs Windows XP Professional and the other one runs Windows ME (but it can be Windows 98 as well). I use Windows XP's Internet Connection Sharing and is working without a problem.

I have to admit that I didn't know how to read the T&S window. It was just the change in the bid or ask that I was looking at and I thought that they were trades. Sorry about that...

It has probably been asked before, but still: What are your favorite indicators/indexed that you watch, and what is your holding period. How and where do you scan for possible trades, or maybe you just watch a basket of stocks? Thanks for your feedback.

I have seen this many times: In the premarket, at aroung 8:30 AM, I try to buy a stock, say MSFT. I place an order (I use TradesStation) at the best bid, which is usually an ECN, and I immediately see it on ISLD. Now let's say that the best bid for ECNs is like this (in pre-market MMs...

I was just interested in some opinion about trading with fxcm. You can sign up for a demo account, and you can do trades in the demo account like in a real one. You have to pay the spread all the time, but you don't pay any brokerage or commission fees. They also have a mini account, and they...

Is someone trading with FOREX (www.fxcm.com)?

What is, in your opinion, the best scalping strategy, that you can use to trade from 9AM to 10:30AM, that is, half hour before and an hour after opening, and consistently make between $100 and $400 a day, with a margin account around $50,000?

What quote provider do you use with IB? Thanks, telozo

A question about MetaStock: They offer a monthly subscription for MetaStock 7.2 and Reuters DataLink, for $59. I assume that this is not realtime data. They also have MetaStock Pro 7.2 for QCharts - Subscription for $199. I guess this is the realtime version. Am I right? Or, to put...

Thanks Breakout, I will consider what you suggested.

I want to do some swing trading and the occasional scalping, so the commission is important, but I also want to be able to backtest my strategies, and run some real-time filters to find opportunities. I plan to start low, with no more than 200 shares a trade, and increase the amount as I gather...

Which one should I choose as my broker. I like IB, and I've seen many positive comments on this site about them, but it seems that you need to get a different quotes provider, and that doesn't come cheap. On the other hand I like Tradestation because you get an integrated environment (it's...

How is the new NASDAQ SuperMontage going to affect brokerages like IB or TradeStation. Any opinions? Will they need to update their software or is it transparent?

A somehow related question: I want to open a day trading account and I cannot decide between Interactive Brokers and TradeStation. Any suggestions? If I go with IB, should I pay for Level 2, or get a different data provider altogether, and if yes, which one is a good features/price buy?