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I don't know how to do a screen capture, if someone can tell me how to do it, I would be glad to post it.

I have been using QouteTracker with the IB feed. I am using Fast Stochastichs with a setting of 34,34 on a one minute chart. Can anyone comment on whether this is the closest to Quah's charts or not? Thanks in advance. PS Quah you have been doing a great job here, and I appreciate your...

Gnome, Thanks for the reply, I am using the new version of eSignal. I'm pretty sure that it is my worksheet that is maxing out the cpu. When I shut it down, I never max out. Are you saying that a faster cpu wouldn't really help? What would help? I can't split the applications because I...

Gnome, I used to think this too, but lately I am wondering. I run eSignal and a pretty good sized Excel worksheet using ddl from eSignal on a P4 1.8 WinXP machine with 768 ddr (I think that's right). When the market is moving I will hit 100% CPU Usage, but always have more than 400000...

I have had a couple of outages. I get the message "no password", "no data", or something like that. Within a couple of minutes the boxes turned back to green, and everything seemed fine. :confused:

Sorry to get off topic (and show my ignorance), but what does SAR stand for?

It looks like IB won't even display Island quotes. This has me looking more at NQ. This sure is a dirty game sometimes. I don't know how anyone can believe that the SEC has any concern for the individual trader or investor. Dear IB Trader: Due to regulatory action taken by the SEC...

Scott, I called esignal support yesterday and today after the market closed, and the quotes for NYSE stocks had gone bad (MER MWD SBC VZ are the ones I follow). The men who helped me were accommodating, but didn't seem to have a clue. They both said they would pass the information along. I...

I assumed that they were aware of this. I will contact them and see if they can help me. Thanks for the help.

I wish eSignal had accurate quotes before the open. It used to be that the NASDAQ quotes were okay even though they NYSE quotes weren't any good (I should say the ecn quotes for NYSE didn't seem to show up, obviously there are no NYSE quotes before the open). Lately, none of the quotes have...

I am always in, but I trade pairs, so I am half long and half short. This seems to work fairly well for me, but it requires some serious money management. At times I only have a portion of my capitol invested, but when things get really spread out, I will bump up against my 4 to 1 margin if...

I got the same e-mail and still don't have a clue what it means :confused: . Def or anybody else, can you explain what this means? Thanks in advance/

I have been trading with IB for about a year and a half without a backup broker. This may seem foolhardy to some, but for the way I trade I think it is best. I don't enter any single trade in such a way that losing connection to IB would devastate my account. I benefit more by being able to...

Actually, even the uptick rule doesn't apply. The only rule is "be careful", liquidity usually is low, and you can get a trade for $1 more or less than you had in mind (or even worse) because of bids that are $1 off (and I don't think you can bust a trade),the spreads tend to be big, sometimes...

August was a little rough for me. I have been trading QQQ against DELL, and it beat me up in August. It did give me the push I needed to add a new rule to my method. I knew I needed this rule, I just didn't know exactly what the rule should be. I learn most of my lessons the hard way...

I think you might be referring to me. It was actually 1997 when I traded 1000 share lots, but I did in fact trade 10 share lots last summer with IB until I was profitable doing that. This only works with NAS stocks, IB requires you to open NYSE positions with at least 100 shares. I trade...

I look for these firms. Please tell me who because I have never found one. If you don't want to post the names for some reason, please send me a PM.

I will second that. Who is cheaper for less than 1000 shares of stock?

It would also be just and fair if they charged for taking away liquidity and charged ECN fees like most other brokers. Every time I hear about another broker that is supposed to have commissions as low as Interactive Brokers I check it out. By the time I work my way through their convoluted...

Because they don't charge any ECN fees. I love there simple commissions with no BS and no added fees. A penny a share up to 500, and 1/2 a penny after that - nothing else. No ticket charge, no ecn fees, no cancelation fees, no NYSE fees, no software fees, etc. etc. I hope they don't change a...