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I want to be able to click a button and automatically be able to have a buystop limit placed one penny above the day's high and make the that limit 5 or 10 cents wide. I trade stocks and need to be able to automate my order by the click of a button.. I need this in order to be fast enough...

Umm... Thats why scalping for 1-2 points doesnt really work. You forgot to add the cost of commisions. You are playing a losers game where the odds are highly against you. --MIKE

You rule. After a few more days like that... u can teach the lemmings on how your MACD/RSI reversal system pullback is printing money. GG... u are the best of the best. --MIKE

What brokers allow u to short the China stocks like SOHU, NTES??? I know IB doesnt. --MIKE

How much $ did u lose? I actually had a great day today. I was just making light out of the situation. --MIKE

Anyone that went long FLEX into the halt.. may you RIP. --MIKE

Was that a joke? I think 5k shares is a pretty big position. --MIKE

Ever hear of a place called Connecticut? --MIKE

If you have an edge playing poker.... and it looks like u do... dont stop until you make a million. Just ride the poker thing as far as u can. Trading will always be there. Money is still money.. whether u make it via poker or trading.. in reality u are still gonna be stuck on your PC...

Looking forward in hearing from u soon...

I use IB broker.. what would be the ideal type of routing? Would SMART be a good idea? Also.. if I were to place market orders.. is it highly likely that it can get frozen with the amex specialist? What ECN is a dominant player with SMH? --MIKE

Does any successfully daytrade the SMH... I am talking those that daytrade for quarters? Is it liquid enough? It appears smoother and more liquid than some of the semi stocks. What interests me most is the fact that u can short w/o an uptick. Does the fact that it trades on the AMex make the...

I just read that Grasso received a $5mil bonus for get this..... " 9/11 leadership". http://news.ft.com/servlet/ContentServer?pagename=FT.com/StoryFT/FullStory&c=StoryFT&cid=1059479768696&p=1012571727088 Total bullshit! I demand a resignation and tighter scrutiny on the whole NYSE...

Afterburner, Are you gonna continue the journal or are you taking a break from trading? --MIKE

I have an easy way to tell. Lets give Grob some more time and see how many posts he averages per a week. If he is doing around 100 posts a week.. then I bet its him. --MIKE

What software are you using? I assumue you have a multimonitor display. I have noticed that you mainly trade breakouts out of bases.. which is smilar to the type of trading I do. Do you use buystop orders or do you use limits. Also do you wait for the 5min bar to close before entering on the...

Joey, I'm just curious as to what time frame charts you use when you are daytrading. --MIKE

Good work today... Just curious as to how you find your setups? Do you just have a list of stocks you follow or do you do some type of scanning? --MIKE

Check out this article.. http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=74&ncid=738&e=6&u=/cmp/20030909/tc_cmp/14700157 If everyone stopped swapping files I wonder how this would affect computer sales and DSL growth. The truth is that file swapping is a major catalyst for PC and...

Easier said than done. --MIKE