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Not to derail, but have you also used TWS on Ubuntu? How do you rate TOS against TWS, on Ubuntu? I am running TWS and it seems to work nicely but I haven't used TOS. I am trading on a Dell refurb with Ubuntu 18.04

History has shown us time and time again that while the S&P500 and other indices keep going up and up and up in the bigger scheme of things, they can all drop like a turd now and then, and keep sliding for weeks, months, even years. You will not win every day. And you will have expenses. So the...

Liquidity issues with penny stocks can beat you up pretty bad. However, these can also be incredibly volatile. Two kinds of stock that I know of that you might see go up 5x to 10x intraday... pharm, and penny stocks. I find pennys to actually be a lot of fun to trade. I sometimes scan for under...

I thought about using an RPi for my screener, actually. I use them for all sorts of stuff. I got one set up as an MP3 stereo, one set up as a chart plotter for marine navigation, one as a very portable computer with an ethernet port. They are a lot of fun to mess with. The problem for trading is...

No. At least it isn't in my bookshelf.

Don't know about audio books, but look at amazon's listings for books under the search terms "day trading" or "technical analysis" for an idea of what is selling. That's where all my picks came from.

Refund? I don't get it. So all these "trade with our money" outfits charge you up front for the privilege? Sounds a bit scammish to me. I will follow this thread with interest. Not that I want to give them a try or anything, mind you. I would rather trade with my own money, even if it isn't very...

I've got books and books and books. I am probably helping to support a lot of mediocre traders who find more profit in authoring than in trading. In reality after buying the first one, there was really no reason to buy any others. Any good general book on day trading stocks has the basics of...

Linux mostly picks up all standard hardware with no drivers and few issues. Dell is known to be very Linux friendly, in particular. Linux doesn't rely heavily on third party drivers. Most of the code is in the kernel already. It is a whole nother critter from WinDOHs. So here is what I suggest...

Yes, I AM trading with IB, running the Linux version of their TWS desktop platform. Haven't noticed any software or OS related issues so far. TDAmeritrade claims that ToS runs on Linux, but I haven't tried it yet. Newbie here, still underfunded, so I trade one day a week, three trades in/out...

I think that simply not allowing margin trading or shorting below a certain level of capitalization would be quite sufficient. Preventing commerce seems very unAmerican to me.

Don't confuse "demo" with "paper" or "simulated" trading. A full PAPER trading account with real time data will teach you a lot, but it won't teach you about a couple of things, like how much lag time there can be when you are trying to sell out of a position while the stock is in free fall and...

Maximum employability and employment earning power usually correlates with general ability, resourcefulness, intelligence, and willingness to work hard and make sacrifices. Those qualities would probably also correlate closely to viability of a career in trading. What this means is if you can't...

Do you support Linux users? Just curious. Not talking about webware... talking about actual Linux ports of the desktop trading platform. So far I have only found IB and TDAmeritrade to do so.

So what is a CFD? Sorry, newb here.

Bitter lesson number 2. Live the life, 24/7. You don't have time off if you want to trade. Heard on the news about this new fake hamburger that is getting some airtime in restaurants. I'm like, Yeah. Right. Me being a devoted carnivore probably descended from tyrannosauruses, I totally...

I have been following this for a few days. More often than not, the premarket action is a harbinger for at least the first hour of the market, lately. I am liking TQQQ for intraday. The run this morning would have been good for a couple bucks a share. I would have traded this today if I could...

From the TWS desktop, you have probably tried the menu item "Account / Subscribe to Market Data/Research" and got basically nowhere. It just dumps you on the client portal web page and leaves you there wondering what to do next. Well... Log on to your client portal. There is a Menu laucher over...

Oops my bad. Looks like everything is taking a rough tumble. I had a bit of tunnel vision there.

Started watching it yesterday afternoon and looked interesting in the premarket. I would have loved to have shorted a couple hundred shares at the bell. Too bad I am out of action today. PDT. Have fun everyone! Happy hunting!