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It totally depends on your style. If you are a very short term scalper, it would be a help. Anything else, I doubt that it could do more for you than maybe help with timing on your entry. I mostly scalp and couldn't trade without it. The longer you listen to it, the more it grows on you...

Today was like triple witch all over again. 17 fills, 12 of them long. Dumped the shorts right away and watched the longs go. Just looked at p/l and listened to the squawk box, dumped it all when things turned. Too bad I cut my size substantially to only 500 share average size. Still netted...

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I grossed $.65 today on 4 longs and 5 shorts. Dumped my longs when things turned south and did well on the shorts, but got out too soon as usual. I agree with the previous comment about more fills than usual lately. It seems that the extreme activity in the market is just creating more...

Anything you can find in a good trading book has also been covered here. As well as a lot of useful info you won't find in any book. You just have to wade through a lot of fluff. Whenever new traders I talk to are looking for advice/ideas, I tell them to come to this site and just do a...

You mean by pooling our resources and buying all at once to make the market go up? I could probably round up a million with my professional leverage. You get a bunch of other guys together and we'll pick a time to start buying, just let me know. BTW, you go first.

Today sucked for me, 6 fills, all shorts. Got some profits out of a couple of them before everything reversed and ripped higher. -$.98 gross, luckily still using reduced share size. They all eventually came back, but things look so much easier in hindsight.

I added a column that shows the price at 3:59 est. If it's more than .4% different than the official closing price, I check out the chart. It flagged 4 stocks from Friday's close and caught the 20 cent gap on HON. This should work pretty well and save a lot of time.

That would work, but I automatically pull my closing prices into my spreadsheet from my data feed and don't enter them by hand. I use qlink too and might be able to set up a column that shows the 3:59 or 4:00pm price and compare it to the official closing price. If they are out by more than...

yahoo lists ex-dates on the detailed quote page

Try the search feature on this site. The subject of bullets and conversions has been discussed numerous times, including the cost of them. I pay 2.5 cents/share for bullets. You still have to pay the regular commission to actually sell the stock. I've never gotten a conversion, but I think...

Don, Back in December you posted a spreadsheet showing the stats you've achieved with this strategy. I was wondering if you'd be interested in giving us an update on the big picture since then with a current version of the spreadsheet. I'm a real numbers guy and would love to have a...

Depending on which exchange the firm is a member of, you may have to pay an annual exchange membership fee.

8 fills- 3 longs, 5 shorts. 5 wins, 1 loss and 2 scratches, grossed $1.02. I've cut my size from 1500 to 900 shares this week because I was concerned about extra volatility and lack of liquidity resulting from the holiday. Too bad because yesterday and today were good days. Regarding...

I lost some money on Monday too, and it's clear to me that the reason why was because of the number of large imbalances at the close on Friday, which was the end of the quarter. For example, I was long NKE but couldn't figure out why because on the chart, it looked like the thing had gapped...

You've got be flat before the ex date or else you pay. You can't close your position on the ex date, it's too late then.

GreenDog, how are you planning to play this merger? It's an all stock deal, but as long as NOC stays within it's price collar, TRW should be pinned to $60 +/- whatever risk premium the market assigns to this deal.

Congrats on the news, sounds like a true win-win for all involved. As a current Echotrade member, I'm really excited about whatever new stuff comes down the pipe. Corey

There's a few of them delivered over the internet. I use xsquawk.com. www.los.net is another one.

When I'm long- "30 bid and a half... half's trade...half bid...80 offered...0's going now..MERRIL BIDS 100 AT O...GOLMAN LIFTS HIM...NEW HIGHS...MERRIL PAYING UP...HALF BID...REFCO COMES IN WITH A 100 BID AT 80...ONE'S TRADING NOW...NEW HIGHS AGAIN!!! I listen to a squawk box all day and...