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    Stock Transaction Tax-Prep Software

    My annual thread bump of this for folks in need of a tradematching service cheaper than a lot of the standalone software products on the market. I somehow managed to do the complete opposite of procrastination and downloaded all of my 2010 trades from IB already. Sent them over to...
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    After 5 yrs, may switch off Tradestation, cheaper alternative?

    Going to wait until eSignal 11 to trial it (so I don't experience as many of the drawbacks some of the other posters mentioned), they expect it to be out in a few months I believe. No point in running a trial until then. So I'll stick with Tradestation (which I really don't have any complaints...
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    After 5 yrs, may switch off Tradestation, cheaper alternative?

    Well, I'm just about done... I looked at these charting platforms: Amibroker, Quotetracker, Investor R/T, Sierrachart, Multicharts, Ninjatrader, Neoticker, Ensign Used both IQ Feed (w/ LII) and IB's feed (w/ LII) (not many other feeds exist for the retail trader I've learned). Most of...
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    After 5 yrs, may switch off Tradestation, cheaper alternative?

    2 questions: 1. Does anyone know of a standalone market-depth & Time/sales ONLY app (no charting)? 2. Is Tradestation (and I'm guessing eSignal) the only platforms that show you a historical Time & Sales (with a vertical scrollbar)? All these other platforms basically just show you from the...
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    After 5 yrs, may switch off Tradestation, cheaper alternative?

    Awesome rec, just went to Ninja 7 (b18) and it's working so I can actually test it out now. Thanks!
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    After 5 yrs, may switch off Tradestation, cheaper alternative?

    Quick update so far (comments welcome as usual): -Got an IQFeed trial going and also added Totalview to my IB Datafeed for a month. I'm surprised that IQ Feed doesn't support Totalview, only the less revealing Openview, that could be an IQ Feed dealbreaker for me. -I eliminated Amibroker...
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    After 5 yrs, may switch off Tradestation, cheaper alternative?

    Good info again. FYI- I use IB's TWS with a little pt-click and a lot of hotkeys, it's fast enough for my purposes to do it that way. I would be very hesitant to switch order execution to a diff. platform given my effectiveness (& profitability) with IB TWS, I don't feel I ever miss trades...
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    After 5 yrs, may switch off Tradestation, cheaper alternative?

    Every bit helps, thanks, i'm still hunting around, will post back with my final decision, going to test out a few platforms over the next few weeks along with checking into data feeds. But very quickly, TS is only $100 if you are a brokerage client of theirs. I am an IB client, not TS, so I...
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    After 5 yrs, may switch off Tradestation, cheaper alternative?

    I'm better off sticking with IB because the amount I save in commissions by using IB overcomes any savings for using tradestation for free (additionally, execution, hotkeys, etc. in IB is huge for me). I just checked esignal and it looks like it's $170 for a similar package to what I'm using...
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    After 5 yrs, may switch off Tradestation, cheaper alternative?

    Here are the things I've liked about Tradestation and why I've used it for years: -Color-coded linking b/w Level II, charts, time & sale -Customizable quote lines -Multiple tabs so I can have indices on 1 tab, stocks I'm trading on another, etc. -Speed: When it's up, it is quick, but once a...
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    Stock Transaction Tax-Prep Software

    Just finished processing 30,000 matching transactions via Wayne @ tradematcher.com (trying to get a headstart on filing this year again). His prices went up this year, which is understandable given that I had no clue how he could afford to spend all that time processing these things for folks...
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    Stock Transaction Tax-Prep Software

    Just wanted to bump this thread again because just like last year, I decided to use Tradematcher again this year. Again it was $34.95 for the service, and again the guy successfully matched every single one of my trades for the 2008 year (getting a headstart on taxes this time around!). It...
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    To all Vista users out there...

    Luto- That was an excellent reply, I appreciate it. I think I'll give Vista 64 a try since I do have all new hardware, and I'll test out all my apps on it and if it works for a week then I'll stick with it, if I run into issues I'll go back to XP Pro. Sounds like Vista 64 has shored up a bit...
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    Quick question: 24" widscreen display height?

    That may be a good idea, I'll think about it. I may buy a generic 24" ws from Costco & try it out because I think they allow returns on that stuff.
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    Quick question: 24" widscreen display height?

    Communist, wow, great to see someone w/ the exact same situation...do you use Tradestation across all 3? Could you possibly post a pic at http://www.freeimagehosting.net/ or something just so I can finally see what it would look like outside of my imagination? It'd help tremendously because I...
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    Quick question: 24" widscreen display height?

    Can anyone tell me what their actual screen display height is on a 24" widescreen? Just the viewing area of the panel, I don't care about the border enclosure. I'm trying to see if my 31cm high screen display size on my 2 2001FP Dell's will match up in height to a 24" widescreen display size...
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    Anyone try LastXP?

    Valid points. I'll probably go the safer route and like you said, with quad core & 4gig ram, doubt I'll notice any diff. XP-64 I heard has similar driver incompatibility issues as Vista-64 does though. Does XP-64 cause any problems? Or driver concerns, etc.? My hardware should support ALL...
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    Anyone try LastXP?

    Any traders use it? Supposedly it's much faster than regular XP-32 because all the non-essential stuff is pulled out of it, and it goes up through Service Pack 3 as well, so I was contemplating giving it a whirl...
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    To all Vista users out there...

    It's starting to sound more & more like XP-32. I'll have 4gig ram (so XP32 will probably only see 3-3.5gb), but that's just for when I do home video editing...so from what I am hearing, even w/ Vista-64 assuming IF every driver works, the overhead of having Vista instead of XP would defeat the...
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    To all Vista users out there...

    I just finished ordering all the new parts to my new PC (that I'm building). Here are the highlights: CPU = Intel Q9550 CPU HSF = ARCTIC COOLING Freezer 7 Pro 92mm CPU Cooler (comes w/ thermal paste on it) GPU = 2 Sapphire 100237L Radeon HD 3650's Mem = 2x2GB DDR2-800 Mushkin MB = ASUS...
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