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I went to the IB website and pulled a trade confirmation page for the day and cut out the account info and the other trades. The PM wasn't mean or rude or anything bad. Just asking how I could be short the stock without taking a lot of pain in COH as it moved higher during most of the day...

9400 gross - 7300 in ECN fees ??? DAAAAAAAAAAAAMMMMMM !!!!!! (not that I am saying anything about your trading as you have my total respect but that would mess with my head a bit)

Today started out ok and then became frustrating really fast. I started the day hopeful as the market was trading higher and I found a couple that I wanted to trade at the open from the pre-market action. I was able to make a couple of trades and then Tradestation my scanning machine...

Good day. no land mines and low stress. + 8274

I think you make some interesting points. I think you miss though when you say the "only way" is for both to share. On its face its sounds wrong and when you dive deeper it becomes increasingly obvious that there is more than one way to catch a mouse. If you look at a split to the 'house'...

That would depend on how you place your orders. Are you a liquidity provider or taker? I add liquidity in over 95% of my trades and so its worth it to me. If you also as much as me then its a no brainer. The thing is that most people are not 95% of either way but somewhere in the middle...

Thanks for your post. That would be really great if I understand the link correctly AND there is no cancellation fee every time it changes. Best to you RW

A look inside one of my trades today. I was asked via PM about my COH trade today and how I could find a short signal in it. The best part of using IB for a broker is that you can actually get paid to add liquidity to the ECNs and you can see some of the commissions are actually...

Todays open was uneventful until I could no longer short PFCB and then things became bad really fast. I started out the day shorting a couple of gapping stocks. PFCB and IR and while they where both great my broker (IB) ran out of shares for me to borrow against PFCB and I watched it peak...

Started kinda crazy and I dodged a bullet but after that it was rock and roll all day. + 10463

Thats interesting, I was thinking it would be a good short. I guess that makes a market. As far as I can tell that unless they figure out a way to stick adds into that highly limited number of characters I think its going the way of the CB (without all the trucker movies) maybe at some...

How happy Ford shareholders must feel that the government is actively working to destroy their investment.

I was able to make a few bucks trying to trade the HSI last night. I kept getting stopped out before any run up would happen. I felt the HSI was oversold as it was down more than the other Asian markets and the US market at the time was trading even to slightly higher. The good news is that...

Was able to make some from nothing. Scalped much of the day and Made IB a lot in commissions + 3490

I am thinking in late August would be a really good time weather wise. I thought about this some more today and I think maybe a meet in LA and then fly off the next day. I made this trip many times so its no big deal for me but I understand it may be a little bit of a leap for some. I was...

I been to most of the major cities and many not so major cities and I just love the place. The people are warm and friendly. I would like to get an interest level of traders that would like to go see the shanghai exchange and some other cool things in and around Shanghai. Maybe then...

Market started out lower with the majors pointing to a lower open That was fine by me as I held several shorts over the weekend. JAH was very underwater and I did not want to turn it into a long swing trade. so I started to scale out pretty quickely and it appears a little too quickly as it...

Mostly flat now other than the swing trades. - 6016

Wow, It appears you have not been to China. Perhaps you would like to go and see firsthand how entrepreneurship is alive and doing very well. Something I can't say the same for here in the US. You DO understand that in this world economic downturn that China is still probably going to grow...

I use both Tradestation and Stockfinder for my backtesting. I manually look at each and every trade so I cant comment on the automation aspect of either (they both have different capabilities of automation). Another idea is to use excel with a datalink to a data provider. You may be able to...