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How much exposure does 10,000 contracts represent anyway. I mean how much money did someone "put to work" there for us non future types. Also with an order this big....isn't it really hard to find someone to take the otherside. I mean an order like that is usally worked for a while right...

500 to 1000....are you talking nasdaq or NYSE? NYSE....probably not much of a problem...on nasdaq IMO, that is a big jump my friend. Nothing wrong with slowly adding 100 shares at a time to your defalt size. Maybe Supermontage will help...but a lot of times on nasdaq it takes me three...

If anyone here has thoughts on trading Gold stocks I would be interested. Especially in Today's action. I know they are illiquid and move like a snail sometimes but I think they could still make a big move before years end. I was somewhat perplexed today because normally when you get a sell...

I have a two fold question. I don't trade a lot of NYSE's but have begun trading more of late. My first question is, lets say I am in an NYSE stock short and it gets killed. It drops a half point and I feel like a big print is comming and I want to get out (buy it back). What is the best...

Your software should make it very easy. On your level II box it should have the following. ChgOP and Chg. or something like that. That way when you are flipping through stocks you immediately know hey COF (for example) is down 4.69 percent from the day and 3.2 percent from the open. That...

What are you using for your quotes? Satellite, DSL, T1? Sounds like it was a datafeed problem to me. Did you trade from a PT office or from home? I hit thousands of bids and offers with their platform from an office when I traded there, never had a problem with the shares not being there...

If you want to learn about semi's indepth read microsom by George Gilder, for Fiberoptics read Telecosm by George Gilder. He has a broad understanding on both sectors and both books will help you learn more about the sectors. If you want to learn which stocks are IC's, which are PLD's...

I'll add to that last point. The main thing to understand is simply that the indicators that work in trending markets suck in trendless markets and visa versa. Most traders after a while know their strengths and weakness so what a lot of sucessful traders do is they have adapted an indicator...

Ofcourse INCA bought them....so if they didn't have it they might have a grip or two. :eek: Avalanche...

Does that auto spread thing do stocks. Seems like everyone I know uses Excel and DDE mumbo jumbo. (which I'm trying to learn) :-) Also will do nasdaq stocks or just nyse (assuming it does stocks). Oh and would I have to open an account, or can I lease the program. Thanks.

Damn maybe I need to reinstall it. I usually use Ben but wanted to check out this one and I've never listened to nasdaq squawk. I'll try it again tommorow. Cheers.

A long time ago I used to use stochastic (sp?) to confirm that bollinger bands were likely to "hold". Infact using First Alert I built a scan that would alert me when any stock in the nasdaq 100 had printed out side of it's bollingerbands AND the stochastic had turned over. the k crossed the...

Did anyone use X squawk today. I downloaded it....and everything seemed to be configured fine...but it never worked. Said "no broadcast" I think. Then when I try it right now at 8:00 ET it says "Status: Receiving Broadcast". huh? still don't hear anything. guess the traders have...

I was looking at one of those charts earlier and SE watches the PREM on a 2 minute chart. I am just curious is this what most traders are doing? I had tried it on a tick by tick chart and found it distracting. This looks much better to me....more like how I watch TICK. Not sure why I was...

why sunw? it's a five dollar stock that is super thick. are you immediately re bidding or offering the stock. Do you use a lot of invisible orders. also what trading platform do you use. haven't scalped in a while. just curious. cheers.

Well it's not "technical" per say, but the best indicator I have found is simply other stocks. Jesse Livermore called it Tandem trading, others call it sector trading, sister stock trading, crutch pair trading, etc. Whatever you want to call it, stocks in the same sector move together and...

That book someone mentioned a few pages back, "Zen and the Art of Poker" is the best 10 dollar book you will probably ever find on trading psychology. :-P Cheers.

It seems to me eventually all the mergers are going to result in scalpers having to worry less and less about hotkeys as things progress. At least that is what I hope. However I could be wrong now most ecn's have reserve functions, the ability to hide orders, etc and there is no telling what...

Not free, but Astrikos.com is the best website for indicators that I have ever seen. I generally refuse to pay for anything except realmoney, a squawkbox and them, because there is so much free commentary out there, but astrikos is the real deal. They have some astrological stuff which...

So what is the new combined companies trading platform going to be? Sterling? If so how about some comments on it from current users. Thanks.