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Thanks. This works. I'll try to get Yahoo to work as well if I have time. Both have a lot of indicators to look at.

I tried the YAHOO stock screener for volume and set the criteria to >= 1m. But so far I can't type in more than the top 99 out of over 1000. Can you tell me how I can type in, say, 1000? Thanks

The stock trades on the NYSE and, yes, I don't doubt the imbalance observation. I also looked the spread yesterday at the opening and it was over $1. The spread then dropped to 10 cents 16 or so seconds after I had bought it on Monday- i.e. 9:34:11 (Monday spread about $1.10) vs...

I will think about that. Using buy stops worked before for me. However, that was for stocks which had high volume. I choose this stock from a list on the WSJ titled Biggest 1500 Stocks. I did not realize that "Biggest" did not have anything to do with volume. My mistake. I will have to...

Thank you for the responses. Now I will wait until I see what etrade has to tell me.

I should have said I will do 10 day and 5 day charts checks.

Thanks for the reply. This stock has much lower volume that I had planned on usually trading. I will do minute by minute checks like you suggest. I will do it for all stocks I plan on buying in the future so this does not happen again. If you can, can you explain the phase "how real...

The symbol is CCO. I bought it Monday-and promptly sold it when I saw I bought far above both my buy and sell price. So far I can't find a price on the Yahoo / Google chart for that day near the 20.23 buy stop I put it, yet the order filled. (It may have appeared on one intraday chart now...

Hi, I have not received a reply to my question. Is this a wrong board to ask a question like this? Thanks

Hi, I had a strange thing happen to me and wonder if anyone can explain what happened. I placed an order via etrade on Sunday night. I had a buy stop at one price and a sell limit at another. It was a one triggers all order so if the buy is made the sell is triggered. I checked the order...