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by historical standards, the real price (not nominal) of gold is actually a lot lower now then the high in 1980. According to active trader magazine, using the CPI as an index the price of gold hit roughly over 2,200 dollars. Even if you want to argue that the CPI is not the best indicator, on...

godamn TWS black out and my short ended up as a loss. I was shorting all morning and i decided to short some more in the crazy fall, but turns out i bought too low and bought back at a loss when my data came back. It was going to be record day for me, now all i have to show for it is a $150...

You mean minimized as in pressing the minimize button on the top right and still seeing the program on the task bar. If that's what you mean, no it doesn't work I've tired. Or is there a more advanced way of minimizing, ie doesn't appear in the taskbar, but runs hidden somewhere.

Yeah i just found out about that. Thank god!

It doesn't technically crash my computer, but if i have it open all day after some time it will screw up the entire display graphics, and everythings goes black pretty much, kinda hard to explain, but basically i have to restart explorer.exe and shutdown the java TWS program and i am able to...

ITs quite good, however you need TWS runnign simultaneously as well. Sometimes this makes my computer crash, but its not technicaly QT problem but TWSs'. Its also quite cheap so its the best solution i've found for the money i spend.

I'm quite new at this stuff, i keep seeing costs associated with this gateway feature. <b>Is there a cost to having this lightweight program? </B> Becuase my charting software needs TWS running to stream the data, but TWS keeps crashing my computer. I'm hoping this is the solution to...

Taken from investopedia.com " A stock split can also result in a stock price increase following the decrease immediately after the split. Since many small investors think the stock is now more affordable and buy the stock, they end up boosting demand and drive up prices. Another reason for...

Although the more recent news has shown that it probably won't happen anytime soon. I thought that since the stock is cheaper it actually is more attractive for the individual investor. My theory is basically this: Since the small individual investor now needs about $20,000 to afford a lot of...

Thanks NoDoji and neveralone, for your charting tips so far. I will definitely try quotetracker now. If money is no object, whats the best charting software you guys have used or heard about?

Well thanks to those who responded with some constructive criticism and trading setups. I guess i gave the wrong impression that I use the indicators exclusively. I just use them to help me make a decision. Normally i look at the level 2 and the volume before going in. My plan is to day...

Hey guys, I was reading in bloomberg that apple may do a stock split. I"m fairly new at trading, and i'm wondering what generally happens after the stock splits? My theory is that since more people can afford it, it will gain a at least a few percentage points immediately following the split...

Hi guys, I"m a new trader and hope to be trading for the next 10 years of my life at least. I'm pretty new and so far my account is down 10%, but i'm not sweating as I made some really newbie mistakes early on and didn't set any kind of stop loss. Lesson learned there. Anyways, i'm trying...