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What's wrong with just pressing the print screen button then pasting the image into Windows Paint for editing?

and 1¢/share for Questrade

Your best bet in Canada would be Questrade: http://www.questrade.com/join/fees_webtrader_equity_options.html If I understand their pricing structure correctly for Canadian equities it would be $17.95 for the first 5000 shares if the price is less than $3. I don't think anyone else in Canada...

North Pesos, do you think that Tradestation will ever make it to Canada or did they give it up? I know for now we can open a futures account with them but that's pretty restrictive. I was starting to teach myself to program with Ensign software but if Tradestation is coming here I'd prefer to...

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Someone told me that a lot of people from the IDA, OSC and the other securities regulators are friends with all the big brokers in Canada. They hang around with each other, go to the same parties etc. The regulators say that they are protecting us the small investor from harm but I think that...

Questrade just started to offer RRSP accounts with Canadian exchanges. As far as I can find their commission is the cheapest right now for trading on the TSX, 1¢ a share, minimum $17.95. IB is the only game in town for Canadians wanting to trade US markets. I have few complaints about IB but...

I want to be able to make a simple daily chart of some stocks from the TSX. All I need is to plot two moving averages, one shifted up by a few cents and the other shifted down a few cents or basically some kind of a moving average envelope. I've been able to download Yahoo daily data for...

Try clicking and dragging on the bottom legend of the chart to expand or shrink it. There are archives of daily intraday Futures charts for Ensign here: http://www.dacharts.org/archives/Playback_Files/ It would be nice to have intraday charts for months instead of just a few days at a...

Sierrachart will take ASCII data. What I did was subscribe to Qcharts for a one month free trial. They have a very good historical database. I was able to download data, then convert it to ASCII files with hypertools (free) from here: http://www.hypertrader.it/default.shtml I then had to...

Did a windows restore and got rid of the problem. It looks like it's caused by this Windows Update: "Cumulative Security Update for Internet Explorer 6 SP1 (KB824145)"

I just noticed a problem yesterday with the vertical scroll bar on Internet Explorer 6. Perhaps it has something to do with the latest Windows update. Normally when you click above or below the vertical scroll bar it will page up or down one page. Now I notice on all three of my computers...

I've just started a discussion group for Ensign Software at this address. Ensign Software has a lot of very good information at it's own website but I thought it might be useful to have an open forum where everyone could post. It's at this website here: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ensignsoftware/

If you want to trade for yourself get a degree in Business or something that will help you to find a good job. I believe over 90% of people that try to trade for a living never become consistently profitable. So be practical and be prepared for the statistical probability of never succeeding at...

Here's a picture of the president of Swift Trade. Perhaps he's too busy making money to find time for a haircut?

I remember seeing this thread where the speed of data from IB was compared to some others: http://www.elitetrader.com/vb/showthread.php?s=&postid=350500&highlight=esignal#post350500

You can get charts for all the main indexes. They don't have TICK or TRIN and I'm not sure about the rest.

Right now its the only charting program that has made any attempt for backfilling IB data. I'm sure the glitch could easily be solved. But then do I want to solve it? If I could just buy at the bottom of the circle and sell at the top??:D

It's been working fine for me. I have had a couple of glitches, see the attached chart. Either the prices are trying to draw circles or I suspect the backfill and actual data are 1 hour out of synch.