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in my opinion, start out swing trading first, no pattern day trading rule for one, and you'll loose less in commissions.

I noticed this too this week and I spoke to IB about this. Apparently the only solution to the datafeed problem is to create a new user in your account. Therefore you have a new login and password, it can still be yourself and they allow that. However, you will have to pay for the additional...

Thanks for your response. There is the DDE excel that came with the IB download package. Is that what you are referring to. Because it basically looks very similar to the ActiveX excel. I have no idea what the difference is. Also, i did download the API package from the IB website, it...

Hi folks, Basically i'm looking for something like excel to be able to create orders and send them through IB's API. I looked into IB's excel activeX package but its currently driving me nuts as I can't seem to edit anything, and any time i do so, it gives me a message "TWS Control is not...

depends on your size, if you trade about 100 shares or less then yes it is, if you primarily use limit orders and wait to get hit, then yes it is cheaper as well, there is no harm in trying it out for a few days, it takes 24 to 48 hours to initiate, and you can see your exact commission cost in...

you can do anything you want using excel's macros. It uses a program called Visual basic. Basically what you said isn't hard to do but you need a site to scrape that data off. The hardest out of those you listed is the lowest price between those times. The rest is easy peasy because you can...

Thought this chart might be of interest. http://www.google.com/trends?q=facebook&ctab=0&geo=all&date=all&sort=0 the popularity of facebook appears to be leveling off. That chart shows facebook searches in google. You'll notice the majority of the people searching are from non US...

Would creating subaccounts affect the PDT rule? For example if I were to have 3 accounts with $10,000 each. Would i be able to daytrade all the subaccounts if i wanted to. Also, do you have to pay extra for the so called corporate account. Thanks!

Did we see a short squeeze in the first 20 mins of SPY/ES action? I have a feeling a lot of people sold short the open because of the quake.

Input director works perfectly for thus, no delay at all going from pc1 to pc2, no hardware required and its free, instal takes like 10 mins to sort out, it connects the mouse and keyboard via the internet connection.

Low volume illiquid stocks can have widespreads too. Check out finviz.com and use their screener.

Yeah i'm also looking for something like this. I figured I'd need a full customizable trade entry/exit software that runs through IB's api.

You could always hold a quarter of the position and put a trailing stop of like 25% or whatever you deem is the better % number. Ie if a stock is curently 40 dollars, set a $10 trailing stop and don't touch it. I'm sure its easier said then done.

I believe earth does gain a few hundred tons a day from space debris/dust. But then again there might be some loss of mass through atmosphere gas leakage. Perhaps the sun has influence on mass too?

I saw an ad for a very similar coupon website. The ad looked just like groupon, but was called wagjag.com. Seems to me that it is a very easy business model to copy. Whether or not they made a mistake not taking google offer, i think it's too early to tell.

Hi there, can you lead me in the right direction of how to get streaming quotes from yahoo to excel? I'd imagine it's free right. Thanks, And sorry the only way I know to do what your asking is get steaming quotes from IB onto excel for example. Keep in mind IB isn't completely unreliable...

There's this but this is historical data, you may want to ask up to what date is the data available. The most recent is nov 5th 2010. http://www.pitrading.com/intraday_ascii_data_stocks_edition.htm

Could you explain in more detail what you meant by this. Thanks

I totally agree. This in my opinion is probably one of the major reasons why TA works in many instances. I believe statistically speaking the probability of a certain event occurring like a bounce of a trendline or a retest of the highs, like in the example above, can be influenced by everyone...

Retaildaytrader, Just wondering how your able to add the $SPX chart on the background of that $SPXA50R chart. Is that a members only feature? Thanks