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This is probably not as feasible with so few shares, but to avoid overnight exposure sell your position before the close and buy it on the open. I do this a lot, especially recently with the terrorist potential. Positives: You eliminate overnight risk, your stops are always working, you may...

I believe the logical choice would be Seven of Nine. Her Nano Probes would come in handy.

I tested it and I can still loose (lose) money:)

I did many shorts today to get stopped out towards the end. Lost about $900. My trades are probably similar to Tony's. I'm hedged both long and short overnight with 600sh each direction, but I'll bet we go up tomorrow and the next day due to the intraday reversal today and the short term...

Just started using Tradelog with 3 different brokers and wish I knew about it years ago. A few clicks of the mouse and I automatically load days, weeks or months of trades electronically from my brokers, and can see my schedule D instantly, along with interesting trade analysis reports. Thanks...

I believe it's two bids at or greater than your election price for a Buy Stop. If it's like you say, that would be a good reason for failure. Another complaint I have is the Bid being used instead of the Ask for buy stops, because it's hard to know the spread and thus hide your stops...

I don't use "Stop Limit" orders, only "Stop Market" orders, but my sell stops fail about 10% of the time. I do at least 10 a day and seem to have one fail each day. The majority execute fine, but still one failure can be expensive. I propose they monitor the problem by having an exception...

Get Win2000 Pro. http://www.elitetrader.com/vb/showthread.php?s=&threadid=1696&highlight=win2000

My first venture into daytrading (or maybe second), I went long a 100sh of some stock (thinking I'd start small with less risk) and immediately started losing money. I didn't want to lose money my first day, so I held on figuring it would recover. I had a job so I left and went to work hoping...

Since no one else has answered you I'll tell you that you can. I just haven't done it myself yet aside from the online statements and email. Check out this link: http://www.armencomp.com/ They supply accounting software that supports direct download from IB. Also www.captools.com has a...

I carry overnight positions 80% of the time, and I'm wrong a lot, but cut my losses when s/r is broken. On the 9th I was 100% short (10 stocks) overnight anticipating a selloff since stocks closed below their opens. This obviously didn't happen and I covered my shorts at the highs of the...

Too bad Neo-hr, this was a perfect day to ride some swings. When you enter a day like this you can follow 60 minute bars and use their lows as trailing stops. I was long 8 stocks since yesterday and casually followed them all day moving up my stops each hour. When the first 60 minute bar low...

They do offer 4:1 intraday margin. I'm not classified as a daytrader, but do have 4:1 margin. I can't find Superdot as an option, but NYSE executions are good. I've saved big $ since switching from the $10 a ticket brokers. I like to spread my shares over a lot of stocks, and they work great...

You do need to get good advice on how to do this. You're probably looking at $700-$1,000 in attorney fees to set-up an entity to trade through legally. Then the initial consultation fee by the Accountant or attorney of ?. Then an annual license fee to the State of $60 or so, plus $300-$600...

They're going to change this law soon I hope. It sure would make things easier.

I didn't notice any problems, but luckily I had all my stocks purchased in the morning. That seemed to be pretty heavy volume towards the end.

Neo, just post your jpeg, word docs, or Excel spreadsheet in the "Attach file" section with your reply, and use the Browse button to find the file on your harddrive. It needs to be less than 102K total I believe. :p

I thought so myself, glad to see others agree. You get a little run, then everything quits. Still up 5.3% for the month though.

I may be wrong, but I don't believe the cash received increases buying power. To the contrary, it takes up available margin. Also, some brokers pay interest on the short account money, but I don't know if IB does? To me it wouldn't make sense to have your buying power increased from a...

I have $8,821 of stock short in my IB account. It currently reads Initial margin requirement: $4,410 Maintenance Margin requirement: $2,823 I am classified as a daytrader (even though I don't daytrade) with 4 to 1 margin. Initial margin requirements: For a purchase of...