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    Need opinion

    i never trade on margin and most of the time did not use more than 1/2 of money on acc. trade 1-3 day swing. Cant increase size because of stocks volume. thinking about to buy some stocks with low volatility,high dividends, something maybe related to real estate. just to use capital more...
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    Where's Elaine Chow?, when you need her...

    must be this guy-...
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    Where's Elaine Chow?, when you need her...

    what kind of job is that?
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    IB feed down?

    no quotes for many stocks right now @ 11:56 i never use ssl login and i have old version of stand alone tws no quoted on indexes-vix,vxn,indu,ndx
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    Backtesting: Wealthlab, tradestation or Investor RT

    choosing tool is depend on what you trying to do. if you want to do backtesting on large portfolio of stocks-there is no substitute for wealth lab. and it a bit more complicated(read-have more capabilities) than any of mentioned above. if MA crossover work for you-you don even need all of...
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    IB API and Simulation?

    http://www.interactivebrokers.com/index.html go to ->systems->demo for latest browser version you dont need password for it,it there already. click on Configure tab,->API-Socket post-make sure Enable ActiveX and DDE is checked you not going to execute anything, unless you call method...
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    IB API and Simulation?

    exactly or if you want to test it in real life-just do not call placeOrder() method and store your simulated "trades" in some text file or something.
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    IB API and Simulation?

    what do you mean by simulation mode?
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    Help needed!

    are you still have some money and balls to continue your jorney?! what a tough guy!
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    MB Trading

    anyone work with MBT here? how was it? thinking about to switch from IB to MBT(mostly because of ability to short certain stocks). platform looks same,commissions-same, free L2, ability to trade bonds,mutual funds,API etc.. but-only 7 votes in rating(compare with almost 90 about IB), yahoo API...
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    anyone short TRMS today?

    heh..hard to borrow list..what is that mean? you have to stay in line for an hour? it must be either available to borrow or not))) anyway - np in IB to short that bastard peace
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    Help needed!

    good broker....if it nasdaq problem, as you stated here, why it become your problem? write a complain to broker, then go to NASD. ---------------but the status may remain the same until the next day etc, and there is nothing they can do about it----------- this part sounds really funny.. call...
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    Plasma Trading

    i always wonder, what do you people trade and how much money you people make to create such setups with 3-5-10 21"LCD's or even better 42" plasmas...personally i come up with about 50% up for year, trade swing 1-3 days with old P3 and two monitors..probably can do same thing with one.))) peace
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    Catching the falling knife.....hot through butter

    my guess that this strategy may work on bull market, but will fail on bear. i have plenty of system that work well in different kind of markets, but only couple work in both bull and bear. the only a question-how you will figure out -where you are now.)))) peace
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    nasdaq intraday data

    http://www.traders2traders.com/linkindex/default.asp
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    IB Market Depth/ Level II

    what is the difference between level 1 and 2? if you dont know-you dont need it.find definitions on web,then ask youself again.))))))btw-market depth in TWS-total crap. try to compare quotes and sizes with yahoo real time for example.
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    Short against the trend?

    i'm playing shorts only. in fact my system perform better in bull years, since there is simply more trades. so-looks like i'm almost always against trend(but almost always on MM side on open) and doing ok. moves down-much faster than rise-you can build good swing system on it. my backtests...
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    POLL: The dollar's decline: Stock market collapse or not?

    they buying US companies @ cheaper price due dollar/euro difference. that why market rising right now on weak dollar.
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    Bright Trading

    on your website-in locations -i saw Cherry Hill. it in NJ? can i stop by in this office,to take a look and talk to the manager? can you give me this office phone number? Thank you!
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    Yet another short that IB doesn't have!

    i can't short 5 out of 5 stocks,given to me by my scaner from yesterday. good price and volume stocks from $7 and 400K to 40 and 1.5M. entry conditions are meet on two of them and i did not make about 5% on each. how about that? but-what strange-i never see opposite situation. like-system bring...
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