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My total days off this year have consisted of one day to travel to an investor expo, one day to re-load my operating system after a crash five minutes before the open and one day at the beach. So I guess only one real day off. I enjoy my job and really look forward to it each day. I am...

I generally like to be flat by the time a number comes out. Fortunatley, they usually wait until 10:00 and I'm almost always out of everything by then. But for those early ones, if I have some stocks that still look good, I make sure I've already taken some off the table and I'm ready to close...

I've used Qlink, which is part of the Qcharts package, and have been very happy with it. I think it's $80/mo.

I believe Don's numbers and think it's absolutely possible to do that well with the opening strategy. I made between 4-9 thousand in each of the last 3 months with the openings doing 500-1000 share positions. Remember though that Don uses 2000 shares and sits through some hair raising...

Even better than dead trading firms is dead dot coms. There were so many sun servers and cisco routers for sale on ebay in the last year that some analysts were actually projecting that it would affect the company's numbers. Would you pay $25,000 for a server when you can buy a one year old...

Well giving that to a few hundred traders shouldn't affect things too much! As long as it flashes green when I'm supposed to buy and red when I'm supposed to sell.

If you were really lucky and bought during a one minute window 5 minutes before the close, you might have made 15 cents. I got some of that, but paid up for the rest (my sell order was already in). Bought right before the close and lost a dollar 30 seconds later on the MOC print. It was...

I agree with Bob. The last addition, ATH, gapped down a dollar. I think UTX and GS were the exceptions. The hype associated with those successful plays probably drew even more people to the game.

Are these all interest rate spreads looking for the spread between higher risk and lower risk bonds to narrow? Do you only take positions in paper that is publicly traded on an exchange? Where do you get your info to decide on trades to take? Do you do any equity arbitrage, M&A or pairs?

Can you elaborate on that at all? Maybe compare strengths and weaknesses if you've used both. I'm only talking filtering capabilities, not charts or other features. Thanks, Corey

No reviews on this product on this site so I thought I'd ask for some feedback from current or past users. I spent a few months using FirstAlert and loved it. I've got some ideas for some filter based trading I want to start doing and was going to sign up for FirstAlert again, but someone...

Are you a retail trader or proprietary/professional? Did you have to acquire any licenses before starting to trade there? I see from their website that Andover is an SIPC member, but for licensed proprietary traders, they are not covered according to the proprietary disclaimer found here...

I think it's an unwritten rule. Once you finger it, lick it or sniff it, you gotta eat it. Probably applies to other things in life too.

Actually that S&P stuff is available as an excel spreadsheet right from the Standard & Poors website. For stock correlations try http://www.market-topology.com/home.html It used to be free, but now they charge. You can do a free two week demo and get all your lists from that. You can also...

Three words- "fast market conditions". That is their out for everything, they can suspend a lot of rules just by saying it's a fast market. The worst feeling is when you know you are about to get screwed, but you can't do anything about it because he won't let you cancel your order or you...

I'll have to agree with you totally on this point. I'm starting to just take a stock off the list for a week or so after a magor event and give it time to settle down. VZ used to be one of my money stocks, almost a sure bet when filled in it. I upped my share size in the stock and tightened...

Only one long today, and unfortunatley, 6 shorts. Managed them the best I could, but still booked the worst day for openings for the year, net -$1.72 You don't often get a run up like that after such a strong gap up open, so I guess it's just a matter of playing the odds and sometimes you lose.

I used to deride scalpers as brainless video game players who just gave all thier money away in commissions. But one of the strategies I was working on gradually morphed to fast in and out trades with the futures and before I knew it I was a scalper too. I've been profitable 4 out of 5 days...

The problem is that the fundamentals of a company and the price of their stock are not necessarily linked. When people are scared enough, they sell without regard to price. The same thing happens when they are very greedy. What 'should' happen and what is happening can be very different, and...

A few of us are back and forth on msn messenger all day. Looking at Paltalk too, just have to get my router configured.