Recent Content by sullux

  1. Who is the best company to trade through?

    If you take a look a couple of threads ago, you'll see NOT to use Scottrade:...
    Post by: sullux, Feb 2, 2008 in forum: Retail Brokers

  2. Scottrade: Home of the 60 Second Execution

    stock777, I can't use limit most of the time. I need to get into a trade within about a half a second of an event taking place on the market,...
    Post by: sullux, Feb 1, 2008 in forum: Retail Brokers

  3. Scottrade: Home of the 60 Second Execution

    syswizard is correct about the real-time OS summary. In fact, my in-house server for database and web applications (isn't that an oxymoron?) is...
    Post by: sullux, Feb 1, 2008 in forum: Retail Brokers

  4. Scottrade: Home of the 60 Second Execution

    Please don't question the efficacy of my computer setup. I can assure you that I know more about software and hardware than anyone else in this...
    Post by: sullux, Jan 31, 2008 in forum: Retail Brokers

  5. Scottrade: Home of the 60 Second Execution

    Thanks for the side-by-side example, traderich. Thanks to everybody for comments and conversation. I'm glad to see I'm not the only one who has...
    Post by: sullux, Jan 31, 2008 in forum: Retail Brokers

  6. Scottrade: Home of the 60 Second Execution

    DataCruncher, No problem. As to stop limit orders, I've never used them so I can't say. I usually use trailing stops, often jumping out on the...
    Post by: sullux, Jan 31, 2008 in forum: Retail Brokers

  7. Scottrade: Home of the 60 Second Execution

    sunggong, Even when Scottrade was behaving properly, extremely busy times (like the first 60 seconds of the day) would cause 10 to 15 second...
    Post by: sullux, Jan 31, 2008 in forum: Retail Brokers

  8. Scottrade: Home of the 60 Second Execution

    DataCruncher, You may very well have some slippage with your stop-markets. I usually get a price which is at or within about .1% of my stop...
    Post by: sullux, Jan 31, 2008 in forum: Retail Brokers

  9. Scottrade: Home of the 60 Second Execution

    Honesty requires that I say some good things about Scottrade. You have seen fairly convincing evidence that their market executions lack in many...
    Post by: sullux, Jan 31, 2008 in forum: Retail Brokers

  10. Scottrade: Home of the 60 Second Execution

    I haven't used a TTO yet, but I can comment on their stops and trailing stops. While their executions are instantaneous, we haven't quite figured...
    Post by: sullux, Jan 31, 2008 in forum: Retail Brokers

  11. Scottrade: Home of the 60 Second Execution

    stock777, Quite true. With MB Trading we've had a couple of unlucky executions when things started tumbling right at the mouse click. One was...
    Post by: sullux, Jan 31, 2008 in forum: Retail Brokers

  12. Scottrade: Home of the 60 Second Execution

    Selecto, Very typical with them. Well, of course in a volatile market anything can happen, but I've seen it happen in fairly stable stocks...
    Post by: sullux, Jan 30, 2008 in forum: Retail Brokers

  13. Scottrade: Home of the 60 Second Execution

    I felt like it was time for a public service message about Scottrade. Never mind that their Elite software suffered from version upgrade problems...
    Thread by: sullux, Jan 30, 2008, 37 replies, in forum: Retail Brokers