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lescor, Yes, what was the breakdown by strategy? The August/Europe meltdown saw very volatile, up and down market moves but this was on a weekly basis. Intraday moves seem to trend. Could this have been detrimental to your RTM strategies?

Hope so but consider that it's up over 40% in the last 5 days. I still believe it will close the gap but it may pause and gyrate a bit. On another note, I've found out I'm a Netflix junkie :D Never realized how many great founds one can uncover by being suggested stuff. Check out -...

This was a classic long play. Prior few days, there was increasing volume and strong uptrend. In fact, there's a gap to fill as well at around 103.

I always wondered what those weird outlyers were. Now I know. Traders messing around. It looks like the OP had company. Trading software is like a loaded gun. Gotta know what the safety does. :D NFLX

What irritated me about eSignal was when I found out they charged extra to use their excel DDE plugin. They seem to have a fee for everything. I was thinking of using eSignal as a backup but it's too expensive if you don't use it. Now that QP2 is out of the game, let's hope DTN isn't next...

It's relative. If your bankroll is $25k, $4k is devastating.

Yeah, doesn't make sense. Sounds like you did a market order instead of a limit order. Btw, you can check the audit trail log in IB. It should have a detailed outline of the events that occurred when you placed the order.

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It's working now. You need to get the new version. Then validate your setup. Definitely worth it. Saves at least $30 a month.

It'll pick up. First week back from major holidays can be slow. There have been some movers in individual stocks i.e. RL, SODA, NFLX.

Dude, that thing is like 2 years old. Funny as shit (or sad, depending on your empathy :D ) but old news.

Of course. OP was only asking whether a large or small range was better. Market is not gonna give you anything easy. Still have to know how to trade. But that being said, there's much more opportunities if a stock is moving back and forth with a nice large range. Scalp 1 or 2 points in...

The bigger the ATR, the better. It implies that the stock is a mover. That's what a daytrader wants.

The action is usually between 9:30am - 11am. So I always try to go with the signal between this time period. The move will either stop you out almost right away or it will hit target pretty quickly. Otherwise, you get stuck in the lunch drift like now where you are praying for 1-2 point...

MACD went over the zero line at 9:33am EST on the 2 min chart. I went long at price 736.2. I got out with after 15 min but if you had a trailing stop, it's still live. Most recent high was 742.20. Right there, at least 5 or 6 points. I usually use a trailing stop but the weak Nasdaq was...

Does anyone have an opinion on Glock 9mm vs Sig Sauer SP2022? Heard the Sig is the better gun.

Nah, just local to them. Ed Lampert could never turn it around. On the other hand, it was an awesome day trade. :D

I try to identify the 10-15 stocks that recover strongest in the most recent downturn. I'll wait for the next downturn, something like RSI approaching 20, then play the move back up. Always have stoplosses in place. Will weed out those stocks that aren't behaving. This is a long-only...

For equities daytraders, does the new 1099B format make it easier for tax reporting? As I understand it, brokers will now report the cost-basis for transactions, rather than just the sales proceeds. So traders with thousands of transactions will no longer need separate software, like...