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karabugla, I also trade intraday breakouts/breakdowns.. i generally scalp though.. usually i sell half of my position when the stock starts to stall.. and then watch for a move with higher volume/increased pace of buying to sell into.. of course if the ndx starts taking a dive i might...

could you imagine going into a new doctors office for a checkup.. (YOU) - "Hey Doctor, im here for my appointment.. ~looking around~ this is just an empty, rundown shack!?.." (Doctor) - "Yeah.. I really keep my expenses down.. no rent, no lights, no insurance.. ..go ahead and take off...

tom_p the answer seems simple enough.. trade with the Big Boys instead of with the traders they are jiggling around.. actually, trading agaisnt the stops of other traders isnt such a bad idea.. for instance a stock that is consolidating near its yearly low.. you know once it blows through...

im sorry ajax.. the admin here doesnt allow this type of thread/discussion unless IB starts advertising here.. we are all trying to comply with his wishes but you can ask def over at http://www.daytradingstocks.com/ubbcgi/Ultimate.cgi i will be happy to relate my experiences there as...

when i was a kid playing video games.. i used to play and play until i would achieve a really great score.. then, the next time i played.. if anything went wrong i would immediately hit reset.. because if i couldnt beat my last score, the game didnt interest me.. so, instead of playing the...

thats what arbitration is for.. but it would be more hassle that its worth to hire an attorney to sue over 11k.. brokers have tremendous legal advantages.. i can at least count myself fortunate that the stock did not decline in value.. actually, i think OJ and Osama have alot in common...

i used mytrack for a couple of months last year.. for the most part their software worked well enough but there was an error with my account.. somehow they routed a couple of my orders to two exchanges (knight and NYSE).. since i am always flat at the end of the day, the next morning i called...

a crossed market is a market where the best bid is higher than the best ask.. a locked market is where the bid and ask are equal.. you wont cross the market by hitting an ecn at the best bid/ask.. you can cross the market by posting a bid/ask that is greater/less than the current market...

tradervic.. you cannot earn 100k+ in IT without a proper amount of education/experience.. trading is exactly the same.. the market is the market.. while we dont have the go go days of the past couple years, there are still plenty of opportunities for profit.. but this business requires a...

i dont get it.. if def, rtharp, hitman, praetorian, tony oz and other contributors are restricted from posting due to their various affiliations who will make elitetrader worth reading? i can see a need to better organize the IB posts, but i think its a mistake to run def off.. def adds value...

congratulations exec.. =).. thanks for the advice.. -qwik

that was great =) im dead in the water this am with quote problems and ran across this clip that my brother-in-law sent me which explains why the palestinians throw rocks instead of use guns.. i dont intend to offend anyone, or make any kind of racial prejudice.. its just a funny clip and i...

yes.. its quite frustrating.. i hope ravenquotes update to use quotes from esignal comes soon.. -qwik

Hitman, congratulations for keeping your cool with Mrs D (Diablo?).. probably the fact that you have a better setup than other traders has less to do with you being better than other traders and more to do with the fact that they like you.. never discount the power of favor =).. but, watch...

i was short JNPR this am when IB went down.. had a stop at 20.96.. when the system came back up i looked and my stop didnt get filled until 21.30.. i guess their main quote system must have gone down.. i am not able to log into the system again now.. i had 2 positions, short INTC and...

neo.. the setup looks ok to me.. when you get in ahead of the break you have to be prepared to be stopped out more often and you also need to give the stock a little more room to jiggle about.. when the third retest of a resistance level is preceded by a larger pullback (price/time) than the...

creating a hedge box is legal on the NYSE.. im not sure about the AMEX.. it is not allowed at all on the Nazdaq.. i dont think it is a problem to hedge on the Q's because there is no uptick rule to violate.. -qwik

there is no safe place to be if there is a chemical, biological or nuclear attack against america.. it would throw the world into chaos.. for instance.. say a suitcase nuclear bomb is detonated in a major city.. the US will be forced to launch nuclear against ALL of our enemies that have...

sniper.. i might be able to shed some light here.. traderx = shortnfool = buckylee -qwik

sahsa i was with cyber for about a year and a half.. somehow their quote server stopped allowing me to connect to their computer and after a few days on the phone with their tech dept i decided to switch to IB.. my primary concern was that IB would be too cumbersome to use, but with...