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    Does IB screw you on MOC orders?

    Wondering what happened to my order today. I put in a MOC sell order on SPY and got executed 132.70 even though the close seemed to be at 132.75. I put in a ticket and was told that the 132.70 was the close price on NYSE Arca according to Bloomberg. That price is outside the closing bar for...
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    Download IQFeed's data

    Apologies for being ignorant but is there any sort of a guide on how to do this? I just see the code and I have the responses.dll file in the directory, but otherwise I am unsure on how to proceed. My systems have been a Frankenstein of excel vba and ninjatrader and I am hoping to move in a...
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    worst days for mean regression systems

    market picks a direction and just keeps going till a certain point, then turn around and keeps going in the opposite direction. what happened to intraday vol?
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    Discrepancies btwn iqfeed and ib data

    going back and comparing the data from the feeds reveals an astonishing number of discrepancies for the ES contract. I am wondering if this is normal and if so what is the reason. Would you recommend that I suck it up and pay the extra 20 a month to get rt data from iqfeed, because at this...
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    requirements to day trade futures

    Are the equity requirements of a $25k account the same as they would be for a stock day trader?
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    OpenTick Out of Business ?

    would it be possible for someone to help me out and get me some tick data since you can't sign up for an account right now? Thanks in advance.
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    Why is IB down on Saturdays?

    takes an entire day out of being able to do anything remotely useful when the markets are closed. I don't get it.
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    How do you trade stocks?

    what will be the impact of the tax and how so?
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    How do you trade stocks?

    Whenever I have tried to trade stocks on an intraday basis it seems to have ended in disaster. It doesn't matter how much support or resistance the bid or offer provide, the stock follows the S&P futures. There could be over 5% of the avg daily volume sitting on the offer but if the futures...
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    historical data for back testing equities

    thank you very much tradelink
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    historical data for back testing equities

    Can someone please tell me how to get historical intraday data for equities at no or low cost? Any help would be much appreciated. Thank you.
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    charting software

    Thank you itr and uex
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    charting software

    i'm using IB's generic TWS. If there is a better suggestion out there I am more than willing to take it. Generally I have been a "watch the tape" kind of trader, but I am trying to get into charting, however after a couple of different refreshes, IB gives me the violation and I need to...
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    charting software

    Currently I am using IB and the violation of requests for historical data is killing me. How can I overcome this?
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    Day Trading Thoughts For Thurs. Jan. 8

    Thank you. It gives a reasonable filter to look for moves especially at the open. I don't usually post on forums, but I think when a person takes time out to try and clarify things or help others, they should be commended and thanked. As for the on mad money part, I think that he is talking...
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