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have you noticed how it openened around 54 again. The specialist clearly took someone to the cleaners last night

i agree. something isn't right. There is no way that all that volume can go off after the close without any indication prior. There was not a whole lot of activitiy the last 10 mins

same here. I sold my MWD a few minutes before the close. Something doesn't smell right !

are you sure that's the specialist and not some trade on some ECN ? My quote provider doesn't indicate that it's a NYSE trade

Splat, Go for it. Your background in physics will be very helpful. I know that other strongly disagree with this, but I consider trading a game of statistics and with a good scientific background there is much less risk that you'll get tricked by systems or methodologies that don't really...

what do you expect for one cent/share? If you want handholding, calendars, education and someone to talk to, go with one of the traditional brokerages (Schwab, Merril, Morgan Stanley, JPM etc) The only thing that matters is good execution and a stable platform.

I found OmniTrader signals worthless: they don't hold up in walk-forward testing. I don't know why you would want to pay for his subscription service then.

Gene, very thoughtful post on SPY execution. My experience is as follows: 1. routing to AMEX never (and I mean never) gives/gave me price improvement. I did a test about a year ago with market orders (both buy, sells and shorts of 100-500 shares): I consistently got filled at the worst...

I trade SPY intraday. You have to route to either ISLD or NYSE to get good fills (I use IB). Works great. I have found ISLD to be as good as the NYSE and fills are super fast.

I was only referring to Quotes. My friend uses Realtick for quotes too. He trades through IB.

jocli, I'm not surprised that OfficeXP doesn't help. Excel in officeXP is basically identical to Excel 2000. The new multi threaded Excel is slated for the .NET platform. So we just have to hope that Microsoft doesn't introduce other problems along the way. Just get Win2000 or WinXP...

I can only second AAAinthebeltways comments on futures vs stocks. I traded the S&P actively in 1998/99 including a bit of e-mini, currencies and bonds. The pit traded commodities are very difficult to trade - slippage is significant, delay of execution reports etc. All makes it more...

Actually, I think it would be fine to charge a small amount, such as 1 to 2% of sale price, $25 or something that didn't get in the way of selling your items. Ebay has a good model for what works

Quote.com has the best API I've had access to. The problem is that the datafeed is unreliable. From looking at the specs, myTrack looks like a good API as well. I've also used ATFI in the days when they had an ActiveX control (that's not the case anymore). A friend of mine uses RealTicks API and...

I strongly believe in intuition. While I'm almost completely a systematic trader, there are some patterns that I simply cannot code nearly as well as I can trade them. I have come to regard the intuitional trades as how I pick up new ideas and help balance the sometimes unpleasant drawdown of...

I agree with your observations. However, it's not that breakout don't follow through, but it's more that the follow-through is much shorter in time frame than in the fall. You should also remember that breakout type systems tend to make most of it's money in a relatively few of its trades...

I'd say that an upgrade to WindowsXP or Win2000 is your best approach. I'm running on Win2000 and have never seen any of the problems you indicate. I'm also on Excel 2000.

Depending on which video card it is, it may have audio codec's on it as well (for MPEG for instance). Try to see if there is any audio on your video card you can disable. Alternatively, if there is a good Audio codec on your video card, you may be able to eliminate your sound card. finally...

One of the problems with Excel 2000 is that it's not multi theaded, so it's easy to overload it with external realtime data. I'd suggest that you try to limit the number of quotes to, say 10, and see if it continues to lock up. I haven't looked at the TWS Visual Basic code lately, but a...

there is no one universal answer. You have to look at which time frame you trade and what profit target you have. I have found that 2 to 3 times the average (hi-lo) of the most recent bars (in your timeframe) to be a good value that won't get you stopped out based on minor wiggles. Take...