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Hi I use firstrade.com and this morning's glitch has already cost me about $3,000. I places orders near market open and they still havent been filled! They have a message on the front page saying there is a technical issue to be resolved soon. It is almost 11am and still nothing. J

Is it necessary to have/use both proper trading software in addition to the tools that your brokerage account brings? Why is trading software necessary if your brokerage account has charting, screening, etc? J

What a bout Larry Levin's Secrets of Traders .com? Anybody out there been on his mentorship programs? J

thank you phattails, great insights

Thank you all, indeed as one poster wrote there is indeed some valuable, helpful folks out there. And I have read some books its just that its all theory, no practice, and when its go live time the practice isnt reflecting what the books are saying! J

Forget books.... Are there any good/decent real life trading courses out there that can be taken online? I'm talking about real traders taking the time to teach what they know, in a hand in hand fashion and through the web. Ideally and irrespective of the cost, I'm looking for a...

If you're a day trader, how do you measure if you're paying too much in fees? For instance if you make 20k of profit a year but you make 2-3 trades a day this can eat half the profits. Is there a rule of thumb for how much is too much? What about traders that do more than that, say...

Yes, I know, and it is one of my all time favorites. And talk about a follow up for Mr Boyle!!!! seriously, any idea?

Hi, here we go again Does anyone know/have a technique for spotting tents before the form? By tents I mean the ones formed by a lower EMA, say 13 when it crosses a higher EMA, say 50, but shortly thereafter decides to go the other way. thanks J

Question for day traders; Was wondering if anyone here had a technique for spotting ahead of time when the lower EMA reverts and unconfirms a trend previously identified by the crossing of the higher EMA. They give me my only losses and are not too bad but would be great if they could be...

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thanks a lot guys, I will seek to equate this from a charting software

That easily shows the % of the 390 minutes the market lasts open in a day that are 'up' minutes? or... a count of green candles vs. red candles on any given day i.e. 200 green vs. 190 red thanks J

C, JAVA, FTEK, WFMI, SBUX, OMTR, VDSI, MDH, CCRT, CX, RCL, just to name a few of the ones i've 'invested' in. J

The new buy and hold......

Shorting all non single digit stocks seems to be the flavor of the month

Geez so we are going to line up for soup? After putting a man on the moon? How sad

Dow for year end, closer to 9,000 or closer to 7,000?

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