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Thanks Simba and Joe for your time. Very helpful. -- SP

Thanks Private for your response. I should have been more clear in my expected PC usage. I'll be using the PC simulataneously for: + Real Time Quote Program (Qcharts) + Multiple Trading Software applications (IB's TWS) + TradeStation & RadarStation 2000i ProSuite. +...

The removable bar is nice, but I actually do like the icons. I liked the old one letter icons much better.

Has anyone purchased a computer recently for trading purposes? If so, would you mind posting the details of what you bought, the alternatives you considered to the various options, and why you bought what you bought? I'm in the market for a new PC for trading purposes. Thanks. -- SP

If we have a group of OCA orders under the same group name, it'd be nice if we could cancel just one order manually without all the orders being cancellec at the same time. For example, say I have a sell limit and a sell stop in on the same OCA group. If I change my mind about the sell limit...

I would also like smaller, text only icons. The new icons are bigger and hence take up more space in the TWS window. I need to either have the icons covered up, or make the TWS window wider to fit everything in. Thanks. -- Punter

I would find it helpful if we had an Market on Closer order type -- ie, a market order executed right at the close. Thanks. -- Punter

Thanks Rtharp for your reply.

Huby, Those are interesting stats. I like how you broke it down month by month and looked at drawdowns. Good layout. Probably worthwhile to point out that those numbers are of most concern if you trade a fixed number of shares on each position (ie, 1000 shares of a $5 stock, as well as...

http://www.alfatrading.com/ and http://www.marketclue.com/ Appear to be the same system and picks. MarketClue is a much more slick site though. -- Punter

Alfatrading's posted trades are a mix of sequential and concurrent trades. Their posted return figures is misleading. It would never meet the AIMR standards of reporting (see www.aimr.org). Furthermore, their total count of trades on their home pages doesn't match the number listed in...

I agree with Vikana's assessment of TradingMarkets.com. To make matters worse for them, their sales people need some help with their sales technique. Received a call from one of their sales guys this week who could really use a lesson on the tactful soft sell. On the brighter side, I think...

I'd find a stop order, which upon activation executes a relative order, very helpful. Thanks. -- Punter

Hi Folks, Can anyone please elaborate on EchoTrade remote trading? In particular: 1. How much capital you need to contribute? 2. What is the amount of leverage they provide for day/swing/intermediate term trading? 3. What are the restrictions on the withdrawal of capital and...

Candletrader, Thanks for the reply. What kind of trading do you do? Can you elaborate on how long it took for you to become a profitable trader, and what you had to do/go through to reach this end? Thanks. -- Punter

Hi All, For the consistently profitable traders out there: How about sharing with us the trials and tribulations you went thru before achieving your current state of profitability? I have yet to become a consistently profitable day trader or swing trader and would appreciate learning more...

Would be nice to enter new tickers without having to take your hands away from the keyboard. Currently after specifying the ticker and pressing return, you need to move your hand to the mouse to select the routing. This gets tiring if you are entering a bunch of tickers to trade. Would...

Baron, I would find EliteTrader a lot more helpful if I received just a single e-mail each day detailing which of my subscribed topics had new messages posted to it. Right now I get individual e-mails throughout the day, and if I am subscribed to a lot of topics, these e-mails clutter up...

Thanks for the update Def. Personally, I think it's makes more sense to provide an inactive account setting: that way IB can earn money on the interest rate spread (ie, by not paying interest on the first $10K of cash) on the cash balances, and users can avoid paying fees until they are ready...

IB's export to Quicken feature still does not work properly for me. It works best if you start from an empty Quicken account file, but even then there are problems (which I have pointed out to IB's technical support). Sometimes Quicken tells you that a corresponding buy is not available to...