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Is there any way to tell if I am doing okay with PSU besides seeing system unstability? I am fairly computer literate but I am kind of green on graphics cards and PSU.

I currently have two monitors running on an add-on ATI video card that came with my 3 year old Dell E510. I have a third monitor coming soon (man, 24 inchers are cheap now) but I just found out that I cannot use the on-board graphics to drive it. Apparently Dell BIOS disables it when an add-on...

I see. I was wondering about ES/NQ BTW.

A newbie question: How does the exchange determine who's limit order gets filled first when the price finally reaches the target? Do they keep track of order placement time and execute in first-in first-out manner? Often the price target is a resistance or support so I can see the book is...

Yeah, since yesterday it felt like someone had an early peek at INTC numbers. I think this afternoon or tomorrow morning will be the near term top on NQ depending on how the intc call goes.

IB does update SPX around the clock. But even during regular hours, I find it very close but somewhat different than the quote from other sources (Yahoo, TDA, WSJ etc). For some reason, IB's quote is more frequently updated than the usual 15 second update you see with Yahoo and others...

No, I covered ES overnight at 890. Was trying to game the little bounce up this morning but I should have stayed with the bigger picture which is SP500's head and shoulder breakdown. Looks like COMP and NDX has joined the breakdown as well this afternoon. Very weak technically. Yeah, I also...

I have noticed you and I often have very similar entry points on NQ and SP500. Was mostly short recently until this morning when I went long on NQ at about the same time and with the same target as yours! Took a loss. Waiting for reentry signal for now. Will go heavily short if NQ reaches 1445.

How about this one? Willing to hold for a while? Just curious.

I should have googled it. It looks like tickdata.com sells tick-by-tick historical indices so I am good with the data. Just need to find a playback sw.

I want to backtest my strategy but it is not something I can model in software easily. i.e. I can't run the automated backtest. Instead, I want to practice/evaluate my trading on old quote data being played back by a software. Is there a recommended SW for this? Preferably, it should be able...

It would be great if IB can improve the charts. It would be even better if IB could make the chart refresh rate user adjustable. Right now, the lag can be pretty big and makes it less useful. Thanks to others as well for suggestions. I will check them out also.

Great, I didn't realize I could put in a fractional number there. I see that, during normal trading hours, the delay is almost negligible for me too. I still see 1 sec delay during night time. Maybe the socket between QT and TWS runs more smoothly when there's lots of traffic. I can now...

I opened an IB account for futures day trading and need a good platform that works on IB. Currently I am using all of the following software to have access to certain chart features but is there a software that does them all or most? - TDA StrategyDesk: It has a chart "bar" counting feature...

ContangoJoe, I was thinking of only futures, not futures options, but it's an interesting thought. Like you mentioned, I should consider using put options when going heavily long on futures. I did check out the NQ options and it doesn't seem to be nearly as liquid as QQQQ options though...

So I am trying out my new account with IB and find that their S&P 500 index quote (their symbol SPX) is somewhat different than what I get from TDAmeritrade and others. For example, today's close is 921.23 on TDA, WSJ, yahoo etc. But IB's quote shows 920.16. And the discrepancy is seen...

I have been a stock investor over 10 years but recently started trading near-money QQQQ options as a day/swing trader. I don't know much about futures but after studying it a bit, I am now considering switching to it because it seems to me the transaction cost seem much lower for futures (at...