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Hi folks, I usually trade stocks that are older than 1 year. I'm starting to trade younger stocks (IPO'd less than 1 year ago) with good results. However I'm finding it hard to organize myself efficiently everyday before the trading day. Too much data flying around. Is there a paid service...

TOS has a Hard-to-Borrow club - are you in it?

Hi, I'm looking to simulate candlesticks from past days. So when I start the clock at 9:30 ET for a given day in the past, I'd like to see the 1 min candlesticks for the stocks I want. And to be able to trade them and see my pl Is there any software that does this to your satisfaction? Do you...

Hello, I want to simulate a day in the past and am using ThinkorSwim OnDemand ThinkorSwim has the OnDemand, but it doesn't have market scanners for a given day in the past. any suggestion where i can get market scanners for a particular day in the past? i'm just looking for pre-market gap...

yes monte carlo simulation can be fun. i'm still struggling to understand how you use the ideas of the Central Limit Theorem to trade intraday on the long side? :p

Hello, Can I pick a day in the past, then scan the biggest pre-market movers for that day and paper trade them? I have a live and a paper accnt in IB thanks!

great book for mkt-makers. made sense 15-20 years ago when exotics were big. safe to ignore this book now.

Hi folks, Here's my simple underlying philosophy that has helped me TREMENDOUSLY in intraday shorts: It hurts to have a collapsing stock much, much more than it satisfies to have a equally performing stock. I've structured my strategies around this SINGLE idea. I've used gappers, green-to-red...

nice answer. ty! while i have your attention, any suggestions on an scanner? I use TC2000, and just need basic pre-market scans. ty

can you confirm that IB is indeed the TOP trading platform for shorting stocks ? and the reason behind it? that would greatly help my decision! :-) gui was one of the reasons, IB customer service is terrible too, compared to ToS. if it's indeed the best, then i don't mind using it.

Is there a free paper-trading platform that is best suited for short-selling of stocks? I'm moving from Interactive Brokers (too 20th century, lol) and so want to check out a few platforms before I go live. ThinkOrSwim came very close but they have a Hard-To-Borrow barrier of 100k, before I...

how about short selling? ToS has this HardToBorrow thing, IB much more smoother.

TT was amazing when i used it for futures. book trader is only so-so

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Hi, I've been using Interactive Brokers for live trades but it's a bit outdated compared to, say, ThinkorSwim. However the short selling is fantastic even for Hard-To-Borrow shares (compared to ThinkorSwim.) Is there any platform you recommend that has the best availability of stocks to...

Ty, Overnight. I just needed it for a report for Wednesday evening. Any website that has good coverage on oil stats? just a basic summary like this WSJ article: " The EIA said U.S. oil inventories fell by 2.7 million barrels last week, but gasoline inventories rose by 7.5 million barrels...

ty, i have seen their page but am missing any relevant trading related news tehre. do you suggest any particular page there? ty so much

Hi folks, ANy place I can get a decent summary on Wednesday evening regarding the DOE oil stats and its effect on prices? Something like: crude down 2.7 mln bbls, gasoline up so and so, disty up so and so... THe price was affected in this way, etc. ty so much!

Hi folks, Any good site or email that provides a good summary for US option markets? ty

Hello, How can I access constant-tick charts in Reuters or XTrader. I use TT for trading. thanks