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Topping my foot. As they say, never short a dull market.

Where do you think the NYSE got $139,500,000 to pay its CEO Dick Grasso?

On Friday, in addition to the power outage, we will have to digest an options expiry and so-so Dell earnings. We may have a relief rally on Monday, though.

Sooner or later, all stock transactions will be executed electronically, as they should.

Then there are DIA and ES options.

Here's a good, and easy to implement, solution: for each ticket symbol, using robust statistics (i.e. median) estimate the max. distance between consecutive ticks, and filter out outlier ticks. Throwing out a few good ticks is not nearly as harmful as letting a bad one in.

For example, the Keltner Bands are calculated using the ATR of N consecutive bars. An out-of-bound tick results in a very long bar which in turn widens the bands.

QQQ and SPY

Quotetracker works only if a bad tick is in the highest/lowest bar in a chart, which is not always true. Ensign has a spike filter that does not work.

Is there charting software capable of filtering IQFeed bad ticks?

What can IBtrader do that TWS can not?

By definition, adding to an existing position lowers the reward-to-risk ratio.

Can't beat tradng with a 20/20 hindsight! :D ---

Just say "NO" to street crooks. Stocks ought to be traded the way e-mini's are.

Stochastic is a counter-trend indicator. It works as long as one takes postions in the direction of a trend, and uses stops to protect against a trend reversal.

To answer my own question: BigCharts.com has a %compare indicator that is suitable for development of pairs trading strategies.

I opened a F&FA hoping to make it easier managing eight individual IB accounts that belong to myself and my family. Unfortunately, there was no way to transfer an existing account under the F&FA umbrella, and I did not have time to go through the "new account" /"transfer" sequence, times eight.

All indicators are indeed useless - except in the context of a trading system.

Hello, Could someone recommend charting software capable of displaying the intra-day performance of a pair, preferrably in real-time?: i-d perf = symbol1_%change - symbol2_%change Thanks, dis

We rolled right into a trap Saddam set for us, and are backpedaling. Both Plan A (decapitation) and Plan B (storm) are already history, and we a left with Plan C (siege a.k.a. quagmire). If this is success, what is failure?