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This was your mistake. Regardless of whether or not you made a profit, you must fill out a schedule D to show the IRS what you paid for your trades.

I'm trading the 10y note march contract (symbol TYH09 on tradestation) and I just need a little clarification on when traders rollover to the June contract. I've read elsewhere on elitetrader that it is 1 or 2 days before first notice day, which for the march contract is 2/27 or this Friday...

Hey, when you can't debate on the facts, pull the race card. Excellent plan! This way, you'll never have to address a tough question. Kind of like Palin when she goes on Hannity.

It appears that Tradestation has eliminated their daytrade rates for the e-minis, if their latest margin page update is to be believed. No more daytrade rates at Tradestation. A rather surprising turn of events if you ask me.

Now TS is reporting me flat with the correct P/L. I wonder how/when we will know if all is ok?

It's not "all fixed" I noticed that it finally cancelled my order that was sitting in the matrix (that was in reality EXECUTED), and it finally showed my proper position (short) in the TS matrix. I then immediately entered an order to cover at (thankfully) the price I would have covered had...

Yes, this is terribly frustrating. Their support forum seems down as well. I have an order hanging out there that I don't know if it is cancelled or not....

OK, quick question (and sorry if this has been asked and answered before)..... Is there a rule of thumb, when using volume-based bars? For instance, 10,000 contracts per bar is the ES standard, correct? 2000 for NQ? As these contracts gain/lose popularity in the future, what would prompt...

I mean, seriously...this is the 2nd or 3rd night in a row when they have gone down around 1:00am NY time....WTF?

Yeah, you just keep believing that.... I suppose Soros doesn't have an agenda either....

Is that a different time frame than the usual 10000CV ES chart?

Well, my order was "Auto Routed" not placed specifically with NYSE (that's not an option with the broker I used in the trade example). This whole thing smacks of a conspiracy considering the news that was about to break on oil at that time. I'm still pissed at how this all went down, but...

And let me state it once again for those who glossed over it the first time....I've been trading with MARKET ORDERS since January with NO COMPLAINTS. No serious slippage. This is to be expected when one is trading high volume NYSE issues such as TSO, GS, MRO, X, etc. etc. This wasn't an...

No, unless IB is considered delayed quotes, which they are not. And no, the trade I am complaining about was NOT placed through IB...I was simply using IB as my quote source at the time. If indeed the prints were as you say they were Jaxon, then why didn't the broker come back at me with...

or "Why I must go direct access ASAP" Wednesday, April 12, I placed a trade to buy 300 shares of TSO at 10:29:59 (MARKET ORDER). Now in the three months I've been firing off market orders with this particular firm, I have had no complaints, as I trade exclusively highly liquid active stocks...

I experimented a bit with the automated trading function. Anyone out there using this to place trades? It seems that it's impossible to automate a limit order, as it seems to force you to enter an actual price in the limit field. Is there any way to use the LAST price or LAST+.04 for a limit...

I'd like to know if this is a new platform, or did TD buy a platform from some 3rd party vendor, and if so, which one?

Got this in the email from Ameritrade, and haven't heard or read anything about SuperMontage going away, so this was surprising to read....perhaps I've just been "out to lunch" regarding order execution.... OK, so I was using SuperMontage all the time for my NASDAQ market orders. On the...

Hmmmm...something obviously wasn't right with the data I was using that day....either that, or I swallowed a stupid pill right before trading opened..... Scary stuff either way....

I'm finding it strange that I seem to be the only one who witnessed a clear buy signal on NGAS last Thursday morning. This thing had almost 80,000 in volume within the first couple of minutes, and it was clearly going up....Stochastics were at or over 80, and MACD was positive. What charts...