That's the problem with mainstream use of the tick. You don't just randomly fade a +or-1000 tick. You use it as confirmation. In an uptrend, you...
People are too pessimistic. The US economy is very resilient. Think 6 months to a year. Housing has already corrected enough that the median...
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I have been using investor rt. You can use it with IB feed. I mainly got it for designing my own indicators. You don't have to be a programmer to...
The dollar weakness is really what the federal reserve wants. The current account deficit has already decreased since the dollar weakness. This is...
To the comment about trading at sbux. I abhor trading on my laptop. It's the difference between a BMW and a Geo Metro. I like having my array of...
The big problem is the asset backed commercial paper market. When its exchange literally froze up in mid August, it scared the hell out of the...
Your system should be more discretionary. You need to watch sentiment to find the general direction of the market, so you can pick trades that go...
There are too many calls versus puts driving this market higher the last week, see: put/call ratios. Seasonality for the second half of September...
These expos suck. I went to the Vegas one last year, I live here. It's basically a bunch of vendors selling hugely overpriced garbage that amounts...
Depends on whether it's a server side stop or not. I don't place stop orders until the position actually reaches my stop. The key with market...
Why would you even look at the airline stocks. There's so many better opportunities out there.
This was not a sucker's rally. If you looked at sentiment on August 16, you would see that most of the indications were at historical extremes....
Yahoo is in a long squeeze. Lots of people long and no real short interest. When this happens as a stock is moving lower, there's no fuel to...
We are entering a fed easing cycle. Consumer staples outperform in easing cycles. Secondly these companies do very well also in the fall/winter...
You people joke, but this crisis was created by the predatory lending practices on mortgage companies. The adjustable rate, and interest only...
Going into a holiday weekend has positive seasonality. Today worked off some of the overbought sentiment from last week. By the close the indices...
The dollar will not collapse. The federal reserve's massive inflation policy allows the rest of the world's central banks to inflate along with....
What is with these newbies dogging limit orders. A limit order will ALWAYS be filled if you hit the bid or ask. If you need to get in during a...
why not use the cash, spy, iwm, qid or qqqq, dia. You can scale in a lot easier, so you can limit your risk on "test" trades. You can also use...
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