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1) I'd go with IB...platform is inferior to TOS, but commissions are superior. For swing trading, the IB platform is fine. Now if you are trading options instead of shares, I'd actually use TOS since their option pricing is a bit more reasonable and their platform is really slick for options...

Smart idea to stagger your entries. However, I would go one further and even if you are not going to trade actively, I would move your account to a deep discount broker (IB or whoever) to save on commissions. This way you can invest small amounts monthly (say $500) and pay $1 for a trade. I...

LONG: AAPL Long AAPL at 211.55. Stop in the 207 area. No real upside target, but there is resistance in the $215-216 area, so that might be a good spot to move to BE if it gets there. I'm pretty crappy at updates these days.

If you are still considering trading these stock market bastard children, you might want to take a look at the available volumes and then calculate how large of a size you would need to make a decent amount of money when it doubles/triples in value. Then, if you are still considering it, ask...

As one of my New Years resolutions is to make sure I document my trading more diligently, I was wondering if anyone is currently using some sort of automated journal/diary, etc. There is something called StockTickr which has some of the things I'd like, but it's $50/month Ideally it would...

Warren's puts can only be exercised at expiration and they don't expire until 2019 at the earliest. A good chance he'll either be: A) Dead or B) Ravaged by dementia In neither case will he need to deal with the results.

You also need to ask yourself how you will be able to handle the psychology of multiple losses. The trade-off of a high probability system is that it typically wins frequently but small and losers tend to be infrequent, but quite a bit larger than the winners (If you find a high probability...

1.45% APR (Annual Percentage Rate).

Well, when I look at the numbers again this morning after the market opened, it's not quite as good as it was when I ran it last night...Max risk = $0.65, Max Gain = $1.86. BE at expiration a bit over SRS=$8. Certainly you could use the stop loss approach and that saves on commissions and...

Not exactly no risk, but what about a 12 month collar? Buy 100 SRS, Sell 1 Jan 2011, 10C Buy 1 Jan 2011, 7.5P Risk = $-0.39. (Close below 7.5) Reward = $2.11 (Close Above 10) Use TOS GTC Collar order and shave a few cents off the ask price... Main drawback with collars is that...

If you have an IRA and can't pull your money out, I guess you could research a bond mutual fund which meets your risk profile since TOS allows you to trade mutual funds. Myself, I would leave it where it is and just consider it an opportunity cost of your education. Even if you're talking an...

With 90 stocks, I'm assuming you might have some industry overlap? For example, if you have GS, BAC, WFC, in your lineup, perhaps you can drop a couple...or use the sector index XLF instead. Also, do all your setups occur at the same time (i.e: everything hitting because of general market...

GRRRR (troll cheer)....other trolls now have leader troll! Ruthless, irrefutable logic and correct maths cower to flatulently voiced concepts of quanta and energy. Mortal trolls would have to have contented themselves with bit parts in Peter Jackson films or be faced with onerous task of...

What would be interesting is to see a statistic of actual subscriber turnover rate and average subscriber lifetime for these systems, which I would assume is fairly high (1-6 months?). My assumption is that most people who purchase these systems are not big/professional traders but...

You probably won't be able to close it at $1000, even if SPY closes at $112 because all the time value won't truly evaporate until after the market closes, so you're going to eat the spread if you chose to close the trade. Also, while your risk reward is technically correct, it's sort of...

I don't think IB is the way to go for that since they are very limited with historical data in the short time frames. I'm not sure what you define as cheap...Tickdata has everything you want, but I'd guess you'll spend $500 or more depending on how many symbols you need (but that'd give you...

UPDATE: STOPPED OUT CEPH Pure laziness and broke my own rule: avoid bio-techs. Over the years I've been hit or miss on bios, one nice winner (remember AFFX?), but mostly blah stops. Chartwise it looked good, market looked ripe for a short term pullback and my entry was ok...just didn't want to...

By the way, I forgot to mention that StockFetcher is strictly an End-Of-Day scanner...If you run it during the day, it either takes the most recent price (delayed) or else the previous day's close, but it only works on daily data. You can't run your scan on 5-minute (or even hourly)...

www.stockfetcher.com Scan for any and everything under the sun. At $25 a quarter it might as well be free.

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