Razor,
From my Dummy trades over the past 9 months I'd say expecting 30% of your trades to be 3:1 winners is overly optimistic.
It looks like you're not taking into account the many cases where neither your stop or target is hit.
It would be nice to see a little bit more detailed summary of recent trading activity (day, week, etc) in the Account window. e.g. #trades, Gross P&L (in addition to present Net P&L), %winning trades, avg. winner, avg. loser, etc.
I hear all you guys talk about "blowing up", then trading the next day. I thought "blowing up" meant losing all your money. If I blow up, I'll be combing the classifieds the next day. Who bankrolls you guys?
Here's a few suggestions for Book Trader:
1. Ability to place auto stop and trailing stop orders. As far as I'm aware bracket orders are allowed, but not these.
2. Ability to place stop limit orders.
3. Fix it so it keeps the last price in the center of the window. I have to hotkey...
I used Scottrade for intraday trading up until 3 months ago. The Scottrade Elite software has most all the indicators any other software has. But I think you have to have a $25K account to get access to that.
Scottrade wasn't too bad, but I'm happier with IB. Unless you're trading more...
I just looked at the charts of most of the stocks on the REG SHO list. After a quick glance, there doesn't seem to be an exceptional number of those making strong up moves - no more than any other list of stocks. I don't see how you can use this list to make money.
I called SBC and was told the only service available to my apartment is 128/384 Kbps. Since Roadrunner is advertised at 6Mbps, the math tells me that SBC DSL will be 15 times slower downspeed than what I'm currently using.
I track close to 100 stocks and view about 20 charts at a time with...