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Neoticker worked fine yesterday with the IB datafeed. I think it may be a recent addition from them.

Thanks BobbyMurcerFan for your help. I checked both TC2000 and Esignal out and they were pretty good. I also found Neoticker last weekend. It's a little complicated to figure out at first but the more I learn about it the more I like it. It uses the inexpensive data from IB as well.

Wouldn't the biggest difference between the NQ and ES futures be the spread? For NQ it's normally 0.5 and for ES it's 0.25. If you're working with market orders, percentage wise you'll lose twice as much on the spread with the NQ eminis compared to the ES eminis.

I have a similar question. When a trader makes money on a short term equity trade, where does that money most often come from? Does it come from another trader that lost money? Does it come from a big institutional buyer or perhaps from an individual investor? Are we competing against other...

Hi, I'm shopping for some trading/charting software to start out with and I was wondering if anyone could reccomend something. The features that I'm looking for are as follows: -works with data from IB -has a playback ability to simulate trading with intraday tick files -good programming...

Michael, I'm from Canada and I asked for a demo CD from your office. I was told that you couldn't accept any Canadian clients. I understand there are reasons that you can't accept Canadians to trade with your brokerage but does that include just leasing your software?

Jack, thank you very much for sharing your ideas. Whether or not I can get your ideas to work for me, I'm learning a lot about stochastics, MACD etc. I have a couple of questions for you or anyone else here that may know: You talk in your postings about "wash trades". I couldn't find much...

Does anyone know what's causing the change in the market for the last year? Is it just because we're in a normal flat cycle? Is it because there are too many daytraders all following the same methods? Could there be too much programmed trading going on that takes advantage of any opportunities...

I set up a small account when I started out. I was hoping to just trade 100 shares at a time until I learned how. Then I found out about pattern day trading rules. That really limits me to what I can practice trading with. I've traded Nasdaq emini contracts but I have to be very careful since it...

This is a question for anyone familiar with Ensign Software. I've been trying to set up some simple automatic trading with Ensign. I can set it to give a sound alert for something like a moving average crossover. I then ran it with the simulated playback and it works fine. There is also an...

I was thinking of taking a vacation to Vegas sometime soon but it would be great if I could combine it with some daytrading business in order to get a tax break. Anyone know of anything that's daytrading related that I could go to in Vegas such as a course or seminar?

What if you reprogrammed your trading platform so that when you pressed the buy button you would be selling and if you hit the sell button you would be buying?

I was able to solve Einstein's puzzle in about 15 seconds. Just go to www.google.com and type in "Einstein puzzle solution". The first page you'll see come up is this one: http://rakkav.tripod.com/homeworlds/brainstem/pages/einsteinsol.htm and there's your solution. :D

Have you tried medved quotetracker? It's free and will work off the IB datafeed.

Thanks for your detailed answer Puffy. That answers a lot of questions for me. Hope you have a Merry Christmas!

I'm just starting to trade NQ futures intraday, basically just buying them on an uptrend and then selling them on a downtrend based upon simple indicators. I've just been buying them at the ask price and selling them at the bid price. My view is that if I place a limit order to buy instead at...

I can't really recommend any trading book in particular. However I would caution anyone about reading a book with "SWING TRADING" in big letters on the cover. I had a book like that which I often took with me to read while I was waiting for my kids at their dance and skating lessons. I couldn't...

I don't want to argue what you're saying, I 'd rather help which is what I would hope this board is all about. For $1.00 I can trade 100 shares with Interactive Brokers. Here's a handy site for comparisons: http://www.newsearching.com/nft/brokers.shtml As soon as I find I can make money...

Are Toby Crabels trading methods really that great that such a high price can be demanded for his book? The book might be copyrighted but I wouldn't think that his trading methods are copyrighted. Are there any books out there that tell about a similar trading system? Is his system summarized...

Sarnia Ontario here. Are all you guys using Interactive Brokers too? As far as I know they're the only worthwhile brokerage operating in Canada right now. If anyone's interested I can email them a realtime trading simulator that works with IB and Microsoft Excel.