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Chris Farrell wrote at least two books on stock daytrading. Until recently he had a web site http://www.farrelltrading.com, but when I try and access that site I get a message about nonexistent site. Does anyone know what happened to him?

Yesterday Zuizo reported that on Thursday the 17th CyberTrader had stopped using SCHB. I was quite skeptical because on the 18th, my trades of DD were still going through SCHB. Well today, I made several trades of IR, and I was quite startled when I noticed that their executions times were in...

I wish you were correct! Please go back and check your log again. On August 15, 2002, a typical CyberTrader log entry was as follows: New Order 1: buy 1000 shares of WM at 37.95 on AMRO Executed 1: Buy 1000 shares of WM at 37.95 from N Open Long: WM 1000 at 37.95 On October 18...

CyberTrader IS a direct access system. The NYSE is a "criers market" which means it is NOT an electronic exchange. All trades for a particular stock are cleared though the market specialist assigned to that stock. I am just grumbling that in recent months CyberTrader's NYSE execution times...

CyberTrader is definitely a direct access system. However, for all brokers, NYSE execution goes through the specialists. During one of my complaining calls to CyberTrader, I was told that the Schwab system (through which NYSE orders are now routed) did not have "direct access" to the NYSE...

I use CyberTrader to trade listed stocks. For several months the delay between submitting an order and when it was executed was usually somewhere (roughly) between 5 and 15 seconds. The log lists the orders as going throuh "N", and I was satisfied with the execution speed. Then somewhere around...

I would be interested in comments about trading listed securities on the NYSE where a specialist processes the order vs. trading the same securities on ISLD. Currently, I trade 1000 share orders on NYSE, so there's a $5 fee/trade on NYSE that would not be on the ISLD order. What about partial...

I was using a Philips tube 21" and a Samsung 19" 191T. After three years of use, the Philips stopped working, so I canned it and bought another Samsung SyncMaster 191T. I don't see any "grid" in the background and am very happy with my two matching LCDs, both running in 1280x1024 mode. I drive...

I appreciate your help. On my system it looks like "$SPQ S&P 500 End-of-Quarter" is the index that Farrell was referring to. -- John

Christopher Farrell, in his book "Day Trading Online", states "The other gauge most day traders use is the S&P 500 Futures Contract." On my particular trading system there are symbols for S&P 500 Index - Settle on Close, S&P 500 Index - Long Term, S&P 500 End-of-Quarter, S&P 500 Index, and S&P...

Like exe noted, the powersaver mode for my monitor does not work. My screen saver works OK, but both my monitors do not go into standbye mode. This feature did work OK with my previous card which was a Matrox G450.

This is my first LCD monitor, and I saw some favorable comments about it in Stocks and Commodities. The pixel pitch is slightly larger than my Philips 21" 201P tube monitor, but the Samsung certainly has more contrast. In addition, it puts out far less heat and takes us less desk space than the...

I replaced my Matrox 450 with an Appian Rushmore about a week ago. I am using a 21" tube monitor (1280 x 1024) and a Samsung 191T LCD running in portrait mode (1024 x 1280). My computer is a dual processor HP Kayak XU running Win 2K. The computer is about 3 years old, and I ran into only one...

Quite a bit earlier in this thread, Moderator tntneo stated that directional trading on the NYSE is more difficult than on NASD. I am a newcomer to trading, and I would like to make sure I understand what is meant by "directional trading". Also, why is the ease of directional trading...