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    Does trading wear you out?

    I find that dealing with retail brokers and data vendors and their "it's your ISP" etc attitude grinds me down psychologically more than trading. Starting to dumb down and deleverage everything I can to the point where if it breaks and they refuse to fix it I can just work around it, accepting...
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    Canadian Stock Screener

    http://www.smallcapcenter.com/tools_technicalSearch.asp?page=ANALYTICSSEARCH_IN.ASP http://www.smallcapcenter.com/tools_financialSearch.asp?page=FINANCIALSEARCH_IN.ASP If anyone knows of others please post.
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    Been using Bloomberg. Need something new. eSignal?

    Metastock Quotecenter
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    Weird IB / Sierra problem

    Same thing with TS2000i connecting via metaserver. No changes to PC since Fri. seen milder versions of this several times in the past It seems to come and go over a period of weeks with no changes to my installation. Never seen it this bad.
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    Currency Trading !

    Yes, that is a valid point, but it might happen so quickly that little is learned.
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    Currency Trading !

    Trading with 200:1 leverage in a noisy market where some big players are not leveraged is not for beginners.
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    Any psychologist on this forum?

    Study 'animal behaviour' as a subject. You will learn much more about people than if you study psychology.
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    otcbb at IB

    Anyone trade TSE Venture? Is it quote driven (market makers) or order driven (central book)? I am open eyed to the OTC scam aspect - all those companies with USD200k on the balance sheet doing deals in China, finding oil in Mongolia or discovering a cure for cancer that has eluded...
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    Hang Seng and Nikkei futures

    Also look for a very thin basing morning or pattern completion and beware of cash equity shorts numbers which come out at lunchtime (or news).
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    Trading and Internet latency

    You should also factor in the time your brokers server takes to check your credit standing and approve your order - an issue with orders not placed ahead of time. This is usually the cause of the WTF type latency.
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    HK online brokerage

    Any plans for Taiwan or Korean stocks?
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    What are your Trading Breakthroughs?

    Livermore's great and overlooked point is that you can't override you nervous system hard wiring so you have to trade in a way that it can't trip you up.
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    Learn the Truth About the REFCOFX/FXCM Relationship

    Actually, Hwala does not involve any actual cash transfer, it is book entries at either end - why gosh, that would be a perfect match................
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    Learn the Truth About the REFCOFX/FXCM Relationship

    It's called 'Hwala' banking, but did not realise it had credit standing in the global interbank market
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    Learn the Truth About the REFCOFX/FXCM Relationship

    Amazing how they were able to continue offering clients access to all that interbank liquidity after the banks cut their [credit] lines (took about two minutes before there were no quotes on Refco's Currenex, apparently).
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    TradeStation Alternatives for Investors

    Metastock Quotecenter (AKA Reuters Bridgestation) has fundamental data. USD135/month
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    EBS liquidity

    As I understand it you see only quotes from your banks your prime broker has counterparty relationships with. So if your prime broker was small you might see a wide spread and if it was CITI or DBK you would see a tight spread.
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    Do you trade other countries' stocks?

    KGI in Hong Kong offer cash equities in Hong Kong, Taiwan, China B and US via web based access. Korea + others not direct from HK based account. They cater to active clients and cover the more speculative markets i.e the ones where the HK/TW syndicates are active. At the retail level you end...
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    How to read the tape

    1930's style tape reading sems to have been as much about knowing which pools controlled which stocks and therefore noticing when they started to get busy as it was about trying to read supply and demand.
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    real time market scanner

    Anyone know if there is a non datafeed, non CPU/RAM, non bandwidth limits with TS2000i? (TS8 1000/2000 limit is datafeed) i.e. is there a hard limit built into the program or a maximum the program can handle irrespective of PC spec? Would be a very low number of messages per symbol for...
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