I use longer Intraday bars 15 then 30 for trailing stops. When the market surged down and made a large bar (midday) I knew things were coming to...
RE: Best at IB...I track my fills vs. what I expect to be filled out for almost every order and with 300-700 shares in liquid NASD stocks, I'd...
Anything that goes the same direction all day is great to me, Long or Short. I wish this happened more than twice a month.:D
For 2k a month in commission savings I can stand their customer service. I lose a few hundred a month due to programming errors, stops not...
Isn't today beautiful? The day I cut my shares in 1/2 we get a day like this! Short BRCM, KLAC, EMLX, QLGC...still holding
Another good "free" Swingtrading site is www.mrswing.com. I use most of his same rules for entry and exit, and find them to be very profitable if...
Swing trading with Daytrading stocks will chop you up IMO. One problem is "Daytrading" stocks tend to gap up and down a lot overnight, which can...
There is no assumption made that they are trying to steal money, but that they are trying to move liquidity from the current free market type...
Could Anon be one of Turok's new aliases? Maybe he hit his head racing hang gliders? :D
Good integration of all the sites features. I like the most recent threads all in one place like several months ago. Looks good.
Don't worry Trader5287, IB is fast moving and sometimes creates road kill, etc. but they will straighten it out. If you don't trade the S&P100...
MM's want to return to their glory days. There is nothing positive about what they're doing but trying to create a Monopoly and get their power...
Out of 20 or so trades today using Best, I haven't had a single one route to Primex? They must have disconnected it temporarily?
Kick some rear Hitman. :D
If you flip a coin a single time the probability it lands on heads is 50%. If you do it 1,000 times the probability is the same that you will get...
The Primex system is equivalent to a "Black Hole." They are attempting to suck all market participants into their dimension by pulling order flow...
Primex is designed to suck all the volume from the ECN's and maintain the Market Makers status IMO. Can't see any reason why this would be an...
Sure its tough to sell an illiquid NASD stock when the bid is falling but there are many price levels below that you can sell into. And liquid...
Here is a detailed explanation of how it works: http://www.nasdaqtrader.com/trader/hottopics/primex/pmx_syst_desc.pdf Sounds like the primary...
Since Primex is an auction matching multiple sources as well as its own book, does IB's "Best" route see their best bid and ask, or just try to...
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