Recent Content by mvalley

  1. This Bull Market will not change unless this chart changes:

    Yeah, anyone who believes government produced statistics without out knowing how they are calculated is pretty foolish. The formulas used to...
    Post by: mvalley, Dec 8, 2006 in forum: Economics

  2. Avoiding buying gap downs

    Yeah, I use back testing to figure out "what works" as well. I don't think I really know "why" it works from the backtesting, just that the...
    Post by: mvalley, Dec 7, 2006 in forum: Order Execution

  3. Avoiding buying gap downs

    I've been looking at more possibilities... Couldn't I just use Limit if Touched Orders and place the Aux price at 0.01 above the limit buy price?...
    Post by: mvalley, Dec 4, 2006 in forum: Order Execution

  4. Avoiding buying gap downs

    The reason is my backtesting only tests things that dont gap down & fill. I'm using stockfetcher to backtest and it just avoids those situations....
    Post by: mvalley, Dec 4, 2006 in forum: Order Execution

  5. Avoiding buying gap downs

    So, if I put the GAT to be 9:40am EST and the stock opening price is way below my limit buy, then the order will be rejected, right? -Mike
    Post by: mvalley, Dec 4, 2006 in forum: Order Execution

  6. Avoiding buying gap downs

    The one possible solution I looked at is using Discretionary orders and having the Discretionary amount be $0.001. I'm not sure if that would...
    Post by: mvalley, Dec 4, 2006 in forum: Order Execution

  7. Avoiding buying gap downs

    Hello all, I have a order question that I can't figure out. I have an IB account and place a lot of orders (100+) the night before for various...
    Thread by: mvalley, Dec 4, 2006, 13 replies, in forum: Order Execution

  8. does OPG order affect open price?

    I had many a order cancelled on IB because IB was unable to obtain the market opening price for me. From that, I believe that OPG does not...
    Post by: mvalley, Oct 21, 2006 in forum: Trading

  9. Penny Stocks

    Same here, my strategies make most of their money from the OTC/Pinkies. The trick is filtering out the low volume/low money flow ones so you...
    Post by: mvalley, Oct 3, 2006 in forum: Professional Trading

  10. Backtesting

    I also vote for AMIBroker for backtesting. I started with stockfetcher.com, though. They also support backtesting and are easy to use. -Mike
    Post by: mvalley, Oct 3, 2006 in forum: Trading Software

  11. Moving Roll over IRA to IB?

    I currently have a roll over ira (from my old 401k) that I put in etrade 2 years ago. I'd like to move all that money to Interactive Brokers...
    Thread by: mvalley, Sep 28, 2006, 2 replies, in forum: Interactive Brokers

  12. Profiting from Downward movement.

    Good advice. I just started using IB, so maybe I'll try the ol' shorting again. -Mike
    Post by: mvalley, Sep 26, 2006 in forum: Strategy Building

  13. Profiting from Downward movement.

    I stopped my short mechnical trading strategies simply because I couldn't get a fill sometimes on the shorts because my broker couldn't borrow...
    Post by: mvalley, Sep 25, 2006 in forum: Strategy Building