I can't imagine people making profit daytrading while paying $20-30/ticket charges. I been at trading for more than a year now and wouldn't be...
I believe the emini stops are stored at Globex. They are executed instantly and in 90% of the cases with zero slippage. btw, the stops on NYSE...
The other day I chatted with a dude on #daytraders, he made 72 trades this year on MSFT, for 1.5pts each, NO losing trades. His big secret, of...
Proetarian2 mentioned using market orders in NYSE trading for price improvement, and gauge the supply/demand of the stock. I have been trying this...
Has anybody been using stops for Nasdaq issues lately? Are they working now ?? I have been doing strictly NYSE trading just because of this...
Agreed. Nowadays there are too many daytraders on the NAZ. Take a look at http://www.tradescape.com homepage where they list their in-house volume...
I agree systematic trading is possible, but the ones made public probably don't work. Look at the systems published on this site...
I did some programming with emini NQ, and during the bear market we had in the last quarter of 2000 and first quarter of 2001, a simple trend...
I would suggest newbies to start with stocks, and focus on risk/reward ratio and the 'let winner run, cut loser short' thing. Start by watching...
daily and 60min for overall trend, 15min and 5min for entry/exit.
I trade a lot since my job as a software consult allows me time to look at the market. I am using some simple style so that I wont need to spend...
Traded more NYSE stuff with stops... they work fine and that makes trading fun again. Slippage is usually $0.01 to $0.10, on stuff trading 2m...
Stops on NYSE stuff work fine.. so these days I am not playing NAZ no more... besides, the NAZ stuff have no personality, everthing move together...
What do you need news for anyway? chart is not everything, it's the only thing.
Has anybody experienced any Stop Order problems with TWS3 the PC version? I remember when IB first brought Stops back, things were working...
L2 is useless for making entry/exit decisions. It is a poker game. However, it is useful for order execution.. if you want to sell into rally...
One of IB's reps checked the audit trail of a blown stop sample I provided yesterday and has confirmed the instance where 2 bids were above the...
just for the sake of providing some real sample of blown stops, today I put small amount of money on the line, and caught a blown stop and have...
Are you using the Rapid Jet Plus or the regular web-based interface? As far as you know, is there any difference in how they route orders for the...
PKJR, no, I haven't checked gain capital. Do you have any experience with them? I would prefer an ECN style outfit, so that you get anonymous...
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