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trading is complicated, programming isn't :-) It can be because of what my job is, but I think that every system with strict rules (and I mean really strict, so that everything is a number) can be automated, although sometimes it can be a bit harder because of technical limitations, like in...

it looks more like you are tallking about the course of a variable, rather than its value. I guess you can still do that automatically, to some extent. You can program for example rules based on average, max, min, variance, slope, frequency.

:) You are right, my system is not that great, although it doesn't seem to be terrible. To be honest, it's not even very well defined. I'm trying to define some rules, but what I always see is that there is something I would lose, sometimes because of pure randomness (I guess), sometimes...

Can you make an example of such a variable? The only case I can imagine is a variable that is made by personal judgement, like a confidence value. That would imply some personal discretion

I keep on reading about how people should stick to the plan they made, even if it implies an occasional loss. Still, besides the common beginner's mistake to forget the plan (and lose money), I also read about discretionary trading. I have to assume different people just do things in different...

I understand. Sorry, I thought you were using TWS, but you are actually talking about WebTrader. I agree, it's not very nice. I assume they need some fancy DHTML feature that only IE has. If you don't have a JVM to run TWS you should indeed look somewhere else

Where did you see this? It's a Java based application, and it shouldn't be browser dependent. I didn't find any information about this on the site either.

Interesting answers. I think I'll spend some more time on it. Thank you

Thank you for the answers. I understand that to estimate a stock's price you have to make some assumptions (for example about the future cashflows). I also understand that there are different techniques, and maybe some people might have different information than others (although, in the case...

I was looking at AMD, and I was impressed by the price target summary on Yahoo. The low target is 10, the high target is 65. That's more than 6:1 ratio. I can understand there is some uncertainty about AMD, but this looks really a lot to me. How can professional people value a stock and get so...

I personally prefer the user friendliness and the overview that a news client gives me, compared to the normal forum web interface. It makes it easier for me to browse through the posts and follow the threads. I'm not sure, but maybe it's possible to have the posts on both the forums and a news...

So this makes times shorter, I assume. Is it a big difference? I guess this is the reason why the investopedia simulator doesn't allow trades with large volumes But I'm far from reaching that point :-)

Really? Where? Do I need to be a regular member, with a fee? The only thing I have seen is the demo account, but as far as I know I can track very few stocks yes, that looks nice. Thank you

no. Are they worth a read? Which one particularly? This guy seems very interested in futures, which at the moment are a bit too much for me

Hi. I'm an absolute starter, and given my lack of experience and my limited financial resources, I wouldn't be happy to waste a (for me) good amount of money in a short time. I know that there are some sites on the internet that simulate a stock market. One example is the investopedia...