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In my experience actively trading listed stocks during the day it was best to work with mental stops. Only enter the order when your stop price was hit. I only used physical stops if I had to be away for a few minutes (e.g., potty run). I can't tell you how many times the specialist ran my...

I believe eSignal already offers forex quotes. It's approximately $50-70 extra per month depending on the level of service. I've never used it, but I've come across posts from forex traders who have.

Yes, in my experience, 95% of the time 'hitting the bid" with a limit order at the NYSE will be faster than a market sell. Note, this is true of the NYSE, not necessarily with the ECN's. I've done a lot of listed trading (1000's of orders). I've always used limit orders to get in and out...

You're not going to get as fast a fill on a 1) odd lot, and 2) market order on a listed stock. That's true for the entire day session, and even more so going into the close, or if the price is really moving, or if the specialist is packaging a big order, etc. etc. To test, try buying 100 at...

You're not going to get as fast a fill on a 1) odd lot, and 2) market order on a listed stock. That's true for the entire day session, and even more so going into the close, or if the price is really moving, or if the specialist is packaging a big order, etc. etc. To test, try buying 100 at...

I calculate Risk/Reward as follows: Risk is the amount from my intended entry to my stop loss. How many points (not $) I'm willing to give up to take the trade. Reward is the potential target where I think the trade may have run it's course. For me this is discretionary, based on...

If you're in a position, using IB, then create the two orders as OCA (one cancels all). Create the two orders and before submitting use an OCA qualifier to link the two together. I typically just use the stock name as the OCA qualifier. If one gets hit the other cancels. They also adjust for...

Perhaps I don't understand your question. The two previous suggestions on using the Support/Resistance drawing tool (TS' name for it) will accomplish what you asked. Are you looking for a EL code to run? I've never seen one that allows you "to click" a point on the chart interactively. If...

In V6 it was in the Drawing Tools - called "Support/Resistance" or something like that. It's a 'sketched' or 'drawn' item, like trendlines, not an EasyLanguage code you apply. If I remember correctly it's fairly adaptable. (FYI: No longer a TS6/7 user - went back to 2000i)

I've now had to add Number 3 to the Ignore List (along with 2 and the original). Funny thing, the majority of the tag names on my Ignore list have numbers in them.

good question on the order - I don't know and didn't notice at first. The list came out in this order from the Zack's query. I did cross-check a few off MSN's site. I'll dig a little more when I get time.

Zack's has good screener at: http://my.zacks.com/screening/custom/custom_index.php3 Feeling charitable today.. see attached

Slightly off subject, but that was an old article, from around 2000 or so. I'm not sure, but I think those scans would get you killed in this market.

You can do as dloomis suggests above, but I don't think you can get a bar or candle chart out of the spread, just a line. It computes the value on the close of the 'bar'.

Technically, that's incorrect. You could go through a significant drawdown without the account going into the red. For example, you could start with 20 winning trades in a row, suffer a 99% drawdown, and still be "green" in your account (i.e., above where you started. Drawdown is the...

If you want the "open" then I'd go the DDE route if anything just to save having to type 30 opening prices into a spreadsheet everyday. I use eSignal's DDE sometimes and they have a field for open. I would suspect most do. Before you go to the trouble you might scour the dowjones site to...

I'm not sure what you're after.. You could use a DDE link from your quote vendor to track the thirty dow stocks. The index is price-weighted. The divisor is available at www.dowjones.com. You could setup the spreadsheet to calculate the index value based on the last price of each stock...

I've been copying and pasting directly into my trades worksheet, just below my last trades. Excel 2000 is automatically parsing the data into columns, I guess assuming the new data format should match that just above. Don't know how or why it's doing it, but it works great so I'm going with...

I do discretionary trades based on patterns and S&R, not mechanical, but close. 48% winners, 2.2 ratio. I use one time frame for identifying the setup then look to a smaller time for the actual entry. However, stop and target are both based on the original, higher time frame. Also, I...

That interview was from a couple of years ago. I wonder if he's still hitting that ratio?