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    ANNOUNCEMENT- seeking traders interested in overturning the PDT rule

    Summarizing some points against the PDT rule here: Not adjusting to volatily. The average daily range is 1/3 of what it was when the rule was enforced, yet the limit is still 25K. The rule applies even if you are not daytrading Example using a strategy with holding time from 1-15 days...
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    Who to pay in Chicago to order and set up my computer system at my house?

    Hi , No you do not need any special hard drive to trade and in the other post the Ultimate setup was discussed. Still to focus on disk IO is smart. So go with 10K ata disks for performance. Buy 2 for fault redundancy, setup in raid1 to mirror each other. If you want take it further add a...
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    Tradestation and SQL problem

    converters: http://www.sg-chem.net/u2win/ http://www.bastet.com/ http://www.gammon.com.au/files/pennmush/unix2dos.zip
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    Automated email signals executer.

    one can of course develop a program to do this it can also be achieved using batch scripting and the right tools. for downloading the emails one can probably use getmail for windows http://www.interlog.com/~tcharron/getmail.html or postie http://www.infradig.com/ then grep info...
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    Help with Windows 2000 Pro Desktop!

    2) In Internet Explorer Select Toools,Internet Options Select Advanced tab Find Show Pictures and Activate it
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    Any suggestion : )

    may be a good idea to tell a us a bit more on what features u need. Quotetracker might be something for you: http://www.quotetracker.com/
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    Let the Math Do the Work!!

    Short ^OSEAX.. http://finance.yahoo.com/q?s=%5Eoseax is Oslo Stock Exchange, Norway, mainly follows oil these days up over 300% since feb 2003 trend is your friend ???
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    trading ( price ) data indicators for europe equity exchanges

    esignal: http://www.esignal.com/esignal/features/exchanges/ mytrack also got all of those you mention Yahoo good for end of day
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    The Ultimate Scalping Setup (HW&SW)

    looks like ft71 got something wrong with the IB setup tested. I use IB and cannot report such delays. Ping time to the interactivebrokers.ch server is around 70ms ( from norway) and execution speed is good. also a note on the use of 15K scsi disks; the disks makes more noise then ATA disks...
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    Malta

    The place looks to be as good as it can get for a trader. Also once you have a permit they do not have any requirements for actually staying there. from: http://www.henleyglobal.com/maltaresidence.htm *** A further advantage of this status is that as long as the resident abides by the...
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    Malta

    or maybe not taxed.....: http://www.henleyglobal.com/maltaresidence.htm *** Income Tax: A flat rate of only 15% tax will be charged on all income (less personal allowances) received in or remitted to Malta subject to a minimum tax liability of Lm 1,800 (approx Euro 4,500) per annum per...
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    Malta

    from: http://www.cdf.com.mt/pages/permanantresidenceinmalta.htm *** What concessions can this scheme offer you? An unusually low tax rate Permanent residents are taxed at the rate of 15% on all income arising outside Malta and remitted to Malta. The minimum amount on which the tax...
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    The Ultimate Scalping Setup (HW&SW)

    http://www.pingplotter.com
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    The Ultimate Scalping Setup (HW&SW)

    laocoon seems you like you have got most things covered, except for using a laptop. Disk IO is probably the single most important factor performance wise and most laptops still use slower performing 5400rpms hard disks. So since you want to discuss the ultimate setup , the best thing...
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    Any way for a rookie to trade oil/gas?

    http://www.nymex.com/QM_spec.aspx e-miNYsm Light, Sweet Crude Oil Futures Trading Unit 500 barrels. Price Quotation U.S. dollars and cents per barrel. Trading Hours (All times are New York time) Sun 7:00 PM – 9:30 AM Mon – Thu 10:00 AM – 2:30 PM 3:15 PM...
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    Any way for a rookie to trade oil/gas?

    http://www.stockmaven.com/ICenergy.htm http://finance.yahoo.com/q?s=oih
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    How do u trade for one setup on more than one stock

    You might want to do some more research on those 'other stocks' How strong is the correlation between below 3 do you think?
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    IB subaccounts

    steve an example opening two postion at the same time probably not so good. say your designing a model testing it for long only , and another one testing for shorts only. it will not get the same result as having one method that reversing on sigs in the other direction. say one have...
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    IB subaccounts

    >Unless I'm missing something, paying an extra 12 commissions >doesn't seem to be worthwhile just to save some record >keeping. imo you are missing something. manuall record keeping will probably cost more in errors and slippage than you save in comm. also one cannot get real time...
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    Hearing Audio Alerts on Other Side of the House: Please Help Me Sleep!

    another idea that popped up. get a laptop or a pda with wireless that works in your bedroom. create email alerts sent to an address only used for the alerts. set the pc/pda up with audio alerts when a new mail arrives.
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