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I don't know if they're unfriendly to small investors or not, but I'm inclinded to think it's just legal ass covering. They don't want anyone down the road to accuse them of taking advantage of small investors.

I don't know. It asked net worth, liquid net worth and yearly income. I saw MBTrading has the following requirements: Minimum annual net income and liquid net worth is $50,000 This is stupid. What does IB or any other brokerage care what my net worth is? Oh, and considering I put...

I tried to sign up for an account with IB and it wouldn't let be because I didn't meet "the financial requirements." I'm curious about what exactly are their requirements. Is it basically an accredited investor? I know all you people around here using IB don't have million dollar net...

Soooo, uhhhhh, is that like a monte carlo simulation?

And if Osama Bin Laden is captured, and you're holding an overnight short, you'll be screwed royally as well. That's about the only "disasterous" scenario I can think of that would dramatically make the market skyrocket. Think of any others?

Tradestation is $200 a month for non-brokerage customers, right? A little expensive, no? If that's correct, Wealth Lab seems the better value at a $650 one-time fee.

unless you're an experienced programmer, YOU'LL THROW YOURSELF OFF A FRIGGIN BUILDING out of sheer frustration trying to use it!!!! I've been banging my head against the wall trying to figure this thing out. Sure, using the wizard and tinkering around, I can make some simple scripts, but...

Anyone know of a stock screener that outputs results in a format which can be cut and pasted? For both Wealth Lab and Stockwatch Pro you have to input tickers with spaces in between them. As of now I have to manually type my tickers into that format. Thanks.

Great link. Thanks.

Sorry, I should´ve been more specific...I´m talking about IB´s odd lot policy on swing trading with limit orders. I have a swing trading strategy that I´d like to test live, but I don´t want to put up the some $50K that I´d need to comfortably trade round lots. The strategy only...

IB´s website says the following: "Odd lot orders to open a new position or add to an existing position may not be routed to NYSE or Amex. SMART routing therefore will send these orders to other market centers (if these orders are routed directly to NYSE or Amex by the customer, they will be...

I second this question...

Or rather, it bottomed about 2 weeks ago. How do I know? I´m living in Spain, and about 2 weeks ago, three Americans started talking about how the dollar will keep going lower. They were talking about "making some money off it." These people aren´t traders and don´t even follow any...

With my swing trading strategy, my biggest problem are gaps...they completely screw up my risk control. Well, I´ve mitigated gap risk somewhat by never putting more than 10% of my capital in any one position, i.e. if a position gaps against me 50%, my total capital only took a 5% hit. So I...

What do you mean you "know" the system best? If your system is really a system, i.e. completely mechanical, there are no degrees of knowledge within the system. You either follow it or don´t. Are you suggesting either: a) the system is discretionary, and your edge over the masses is...

Question-- so you tell everyone about your reversal system, making it more likely reversals will actually happen, then won´t that screw up your entries? In other words, won´t you all be competing with each other trying to get in before the wave starts, thereby having to continually get in...

I'm sorry, you must've meant people who get too many kids will start to rob everyone else.

Wouldn't that be horrible if a Democrat won? We could have another market like the one under Clinton.:p

Ahhhhhh...now I see. Entrepreneurs while using 100+% of their capital, can limit their risk to 2% per trade by doing the follwoing: Let's say I sell used cars. Every car I buy is like one trade. I can either sell it at a profit or eventually sell it at a loss. Holding it will...

Is it just me, or are all entrepreneurs taking insanely stupid risks everytime they start a business? Here's what I mean-- in trading, you're taught never to risk more than 2% of your total capital on any one trade. Well, don't most entrepreneurs risk 100+% of their total capital everytime...