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I ran a filter almost exactly as you describe in FirstAlert, looking for the same kind of trades you are talking about. It took about 5 minutes to write it and it worked well.

Americans reading this thread, can you identify the following Canadian terms? two-four kraft dinner tim horton's Other Canucks, please weigh in with some more, these were off the top of my head.

I've heard them all and I think xsquawk is the best.

How on earth does day trading have anything whatsoever to do with investing?

Yeah, he is, but HOV makes him look like my gentle old grandma. BZH is also meaner than DNA.

YES. As has been mentioned, technical analysis is a small part of the overall trading picture. The level of proficiency needed can be had in a few hours of reading. I only use price, volume and trendlines, stuff you could understand from one magazine article. Others might spend years...

Do you want to reside in the US while you trade, or just join a firm and trade remotely from Canada? If it's the latter, it's doable. Residence is a much tougher nut to crack.

Depends on how much leverage you have available to you and how well you can manage the risk that comes with it. There are prop traders who can make well into 6 figures with only 10 or 20 grand in their accounts. After trading prop, I'd never ever consider trading retail again, for just...

I trade with Assent, and the sec fees are not marked up. It's based on dollar value of shares sold, not volume.

It's much better than it used to be. Slow periods now and then, but overall, not much of a problem. I have 64 charts up at once, plus hot lists, running over cable internet.

Yahoo finance's ipo page seems to list all stock issues. I check it each morning to see if there is anything of interest. Maybe some of the M&A sites like thedeal.com Have you done any arbitrage trading in your fund, or have you looked into it? I've been doing statistical arb for a while...

Didn't know, thought I made it up myself. I guess great minds think alike :p

Mill City Gold, traded on the Vancouver stock exchange, in 1994. Bought at about 75 cents, kept averaging down, held through some reverse stock spilts, name changes, etc. Got out of it for about a 90% loss eventually. Still have 12 shares in a brokerage account somewhere that I can't dump. I...

Did you see the piece on cnbc yesterday about the trader at Bear Stearns who is 95 years old? Has his own workstation and still trades on thier floor. Been with the company 67 years. Pretty amazing, and inspiring. I'm 32, traded off and on as a hobby from '94 to 2001. Didn't make any...

I'm 23:1 right now. Various non-directional arbitrage trades. No sweat.

It took me about a month to get very comfortable with hammer after using mouse based point-and-click platforms. Now there is no way I would want to go back. VPN and citrix are not the same thing. I haven't tried it yet, but the citrix version would perform the best over a dial up...

Hey, great thread, I was going to start the same one as I am about to re-do a trading room in the house I just bought. I can't decide on a theme or color scheme, but I want a stately, refined look. Going to go with a dark hardwood for flooring and some oak wall paneling and a darker paint...

After listening to a squawk box for a year and a half, I think I could trade the spoos blind, but would have to figure out a way to enter and manage orders. Just listening to the prices, ranges, the commentator and the pit is enough to get a pretty good gauge on the market.

I'm up more than 22%, but that's in spite of not participating in much long side action at all. I made it all doing various arbitrage trades, and some good shorts on select days. I basically feel like I've missed out on some great opportunity, but realize that my trading style just doesn't...

Yes, he's gone bullish. He was right within hours of the February bottom. Don't remember what his take was on the March lows. But he's taken profits rather quickly in those instances. I think he has issues trading against his bigger picture views of the market. No doubt he's been wrong...