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I have this exact same problem too. I trade SKF all day. Ideally I would like to trade it short and long. I am a scalper. I like to ride on momentum swings. My trades have very short time span. But in the past few sessions: no shorts available. It is ironic that when SKF was at 269 a few...

MACD was developed by Gerald Appel. Stochastics was developed by George Lane. ADX was developed by J. Welles Wilder. Since they have published/disclosed the formula in their books or something, everybody knows how the indicator values are constructed. Does that make it a "public domain"...

Or if you want to play the inverse of the indices: Dow = DOG S&P 500 = SDS Nasdaq = QID

I keep all my desktop computers on at all times. Why bother switching them off? But I do reboot them once a day. A lot of stupid software has "memory leaks". Which means the software allocates dynamic memory but never quite release them properly when they are no longer in use. As time...

Most graphics cards will work. Just make sure they support "DUAL" monitors (SVGA or DVT output). The important question is to know what bus your Acer computer has, and find the card (they have different bus types) to match. I use a few PNY cards myself.

What is it that a T1 connection can give you that a cable modem cannot? Is it used in commercial buildings or residence?

In my view, it's hardly worth thinking about. Hardware is cheap these days. I picked up a few Compaq boxes about 6 months ago from Fry's. Like $350 each. 3GB memory, 250GB disk space, Windows Vista and all. The processor was not top of the line like dual-core or quad-core or something...

I use TradeStation too. Is this $200 a one-time fee? Or a monthly fee? What happened to your software now?

What "short sale rule" were you referring to? In 1998, the NASDAQ merged with the American Stock Exchange, which mostly traded options and derivatives, creating the NASDAQ-AMEX Market Group. The combined company still operates as two separate exchanges, but is better able to compete with the...

I used to trade 4 stocks day-in day-out: GS, AAPL, RIMM, SPY Now RIMM is dead. GS and AAPL are not moving fast enough. For the past 3 months I have beeing trading only 1 stock (EFT): SKF No you don't need a stop. With its volatility, your stop order would probably get blown as...

This seems to be a question for the forum "Trading Software".

I don't expect a big capitulation. I expect a slow burn. A lot of people who lost money in their stock funds are already down by 50%. What's the rush to get out? There is no lack of people who rarely invest now itching to put their money in to buy this depressed market. I think that the...

They use numbers. e.g. 0001, 0002, etc.. to represent each stock traded at the exchange. I think very unlikely. It is like saying a baby will take over a 60-year old man to be the leader. The Shanghai Stock Market has only a few years of history since inception. In time (decades), maybe...

Those who believe the Ultra Short ETFs are bubbles are no different from the die-hard bulls who believe we are reaching a bottom. How to profit? If you believe in it, short the Ultra Shorts like SKF and SDS if you can borrow the shares. If not, keep buying the SPY, DIA, QQQQ, FAS, UYG and...

Very well said Mark. I agree with you. I trade for a living. I make good money from trading. A lot more than I ever could trying to teach other people how to trade. While I like helping others, why would I ever want to sacrifice opportunities to trade during trading hours to teach others...

Oh, no need to worry about being delisted by NYSE. FRE, FNM, AIG have been under $1.00 since about Oct 2008 and counting. They are still trading. NYSE has done a pretty good job in arbitrarily enforcing their stringent listing requirements for being above $1.00 for 30 days (recently extended).

This is wonderful! Takes two persons to monitor different data to come to an agreement to make a trade. Perfect! When they have a losing trade, they have each other to blame. Or maybe you just find another trader like you to split the cost of $3465 and he uses 4 monitors and you use your 4...

Good link! What is a business school teaching? How to trade the futures and equity markets like the pros? I thought they only teach the basic economics (supply versus demand) or principles of accounting or stuff like that. And what is a turret used for in trading?

I agree with that. Besides the Madoff and Stanford cases, I think the much bigger one are those toxic CDOs. Purely a Wall Street creation. Countries after countries around the world bought them because they had AAA ratings. And only to face huge losses. I am sure many countries are very...

IMO 2 x19 inch monitors is better than 1 22 inch monitor. An extra monitor is always better. I know. I have 15 of them. :-) http://www.elitetrader.com/vb/showthread.php?s=&threadid=43661&perpage=6&pagenumber=428 Having said that... 19-inch conventional 4:3 ratio is good. But...