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No kidding. What could possibly be more important than having the best equipment. The hardware and the software you are using doesn't need to just "get the job done", it needs to at the very least keep pace with what the best traders are using. I'm not talking flat pannel monitors vs. the...

Atleast Realtick seems to be ready for supermontage. My gut feeling is that some of the DAT platforms are not. Guess we will know in a month or so. I guess the bigger ones have been preparing for it for a while. I also wonder if some of the prop firms that trade almost exclusively nyse are...

The best way is to get brokerage research. That is how I orgionally broke down the SOX and actually crossed into profitablity myself so I'm partial to it even though a lot of those stocks attracted some of the best most agile traders IMO. However it is tough for some of us to get that...

I read the amazon review of that photo reading book....probably not the book or work that rtharp was exposed to...but I have to post one guys review because I could swear that in another life it was me writing it. :-p I had the same luck with the speed reading course I tried. I know it's...

I want to hear more about that photo reading rtharp is talking about. I read a few books on speed reading and they didn't work that well. I still couldn't get that voice in my head to shut up that reads along with you sometimes...how does this differ...your mind just photographs the pages...

AT Attitude would seem to do the job....anyone have comments on them? Cheers.

Can someone recommend a basic screener or ticker for new highs and new lows in real time. Web based or whatever...I need something. I don't have my regular DAT platform today and without a new high/new low ticker for all the stocks I can't get a good feel for what stocks are well....you know...

BYBI....BackYard Burgers. It's going to play catch up to PNRA someday, great chicken sandwiches and right off of 52 week highs.

Some guys will offer up tons of advice about getting a mentor and what to read and watch, etc. So I thought I would offer up this which might otherwise not get said right away. Here is what I would recommend based on what I did. First of all don't fall into the technical analysis thing...

Read Trader Vic's books a couple of summers ago....one of them can't remember if it was I or II, but it had some really bearish thoughts on what would happend with regard to the Clinton Adminstration taking over and how that whole thing was going to play out on a Macro level. At the time I was...

I usually say "Risk Management", unless she is cute, then I say Film Director or Producer

My guess is the average holding period for most of us here is closer to 4.86 minutes than 4.86 days. Isn't the best reason to log trades is so that you can go back and figure out if your losing trades all have things in common and your winners too. Those stats you posted, I assume you...

They will probably offer their users Tradecast, becasue Ameritade bought them, and with AMTD and Datek hooking up, that would make the most sense. Eventually consolidation is going to hit home with regard to trading platforms as well. There are way to many of substandard quality right now...

Hey he could be right, my own theory is that volume over the last year dried up largely because Stewart and his boss could no longer daytrade Kmart around with their ameritrade account after KM's slide and subsequent bankruptcy announcement. Plus Stewart probably isn't trading much anyway...

Do not be fooled guys there is a huge difference in the overall quality of the software that is used by most retail firms vs. the software used by most of the pro firms. As far as I can tell the reason for this is because most of the pro firms trade NYSE stocks and most of the retail places...

A bloomberg machine if you know how to use it properly can pay for itself. I only know the basics, I mean literally 1/50th of it, if that but it really is the best all around trading tool out there. It would get everything.....DJ newswire, PR newswire, SEC filings, you name it. If you...

This might be a bit off topic, but I'l offer it up. I think the best trades are definitely quantifiable to a large degree even if we can't put an exact number to it. As an example almost every stock out there has a stock that it correlates to, too some extent. The more stocks that you are...

I've used it. I liked it better than realtick about a year ago. Like the guy above said, as far as I know you have to trade with them to use their software. That involves you paying about 50% (atleast) more than most of us here pay. ECN fees are bad enough but some offices they have and I...

Cramer is under some pretty strict rules now that he is on CNBC with regard to his holding periods, I mean he can't blast out of his losers...the contract he signed forces him to hold everything for 3 months I belive. Something like that. I just finished his book BTW....it was actually...

Well, I absolutely agree that most of the sell side research is pretty worthless as far as the performance goes, but I am simply trying to get a handle on the stocks in the sector and prehaps more importantly....how they trade together. I have spent some time at market-topology and have a...