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KTM, Thanks for the reply. First of all when you sell its going to be at the bid price so why in the world would they use the ask, makes no sense at all. Secondly, what if a stock gaps down one tick below your price and keeps trading down. Does that mean your stop will not go active...

KTM You say it took 3 min for your stop to go live. So according to IB after your price was hit 3 minutes passed before another trade occured at that price. Is that what happened? Did you look at T&S, was the stock traded that infrequently? If you have a sell stop on a long, what if the...

Dustin My only idea for you is to maybe try to include the sox index as some sort of standard factor. I feel it would be easier to correlate to an index instead of another stock. Good luck RC

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Concerning the "cars", I think that it is just a pit term for contracts of the full sp futures, 1 car =1 contract. I vaguely remember reading somewhere that this term was due to the quantity of a contract of say the grains( corn, oats or the like) were of sufficent size to fill a railroad car...

Metastock is analysis software thats all, Quotes plus is software that has some basic studies and has capabilities for you to program scans on their database. You must call quotes plus to get a cd of the program and data, then you would download the daily data each day for viewing in either...

I would hope that people could feel free to air any complaints with IB software. If IB or any of its employees feel thet there is too much complaining then they can always ignore it to their own detriment. I would think that this easy and free type of feedback would be a godsend for any...

I have been using preferred since last summer. I generally used their 7.75 trade and occasionally the autotrade if the situation warranted it. Since March I have noticed that the 7.75 executions are terrible. Long waits for a fill are common. If you put in a limit order your order will sit...

Yes those prints seem to be the other exchanges which are always ( almost) below the bid and above the ask. The nyse T&S also has lots of totally wierd price prints that can be 60.00 on a 35.00 stock. From what I see they can and do take larger orders outside the posted b/ask. I guess thats...

I have been keeping up with this thread on and off. One thing it has done for me is to look more at nyse issues than otc. I had been a 99% otc trader . I use quotes plus for my scanning, it comes with some simple ones and can also be programmed. I just modify the simple ones to fit my...

You must differentiate trade rules from emotion. If youre stressed whenever your position is negative you may always panic and lose. I have taken several very bad Tradestation based trading systems and reversed the parametersfor but/sell. Never worked> Ron C

Thank you for both of your replies. I have always felt that if I just pay attention to my trading setups and stick to the rules I would have more than a better probability of success. T&S works for me as I can see prices and better yet the pace of trading... though I'm sure mm's run lots...

I must have a mental block but I just cant figure out otc level 2 or even the order screen for nyse. I use qcharts for intraday data. I have downloaded and read several webpages and daytrading books devoted to this but I cant get it. Rather than all the fancy stuff Imight need to start with the...

I generally do not like the decimals. I find that the bid or ask prices move too much. I never had the problems with executing limit orders like I do now. If I put in an order for a stock thats not heavily traded at a price of say 25.50 I have seen many times the bid will move 0.01 or 0.02 away...

I have dial up 56k which is marginal. The ONLY other thing available to me is ISDN. It will run 130 per month but the right now my connectivity is my BIGGEST problem. Any ideas? Thank you Ron

Since I started this, here I go. I did get an esignal trial. I dont like the software compared to Qcharts but I can learn it. BUT No way of knowing if quotes are slow. If the server is behind you will never know it. Big problems refreshing charts. If you have a 60 min chart and log on say...

Thanks all. It cant hurt to give esignal a try. I mostly prep using daily charts on weekends and use supercharts with a different data source(cleaner data).Quicken charting has fixed time frames , a no-go for me. I think all the internet based services have their problems. My main concern is the...

Ken Thanks. I will do a trial of esignal this week. I am especially interested in the first 30 min of trading. I am more of a swing trader and dont like to get forced out of a position during the opening havoc, but with Qcharts I am often getting greatly delayed data sometimes over a minute...

I use qcharts now and I am just about sick of it. For months it has gotten worse, particularly the first and last 45 min of trading. I am checking out esignal and it looks to be a good/better alternative. I have had satellite service with dbc a few years ago and dont generally like to do...