James "Dow 36,000" Glassman Jim "TYC was a buy at 53.00, an even better buy at 23.00" Cramer Maria "I called the bottom 2 weeks ago by...
I seem to get filled right away. ETF's don't require it but IB has a set of rules that tend to differ from the norm sometimes.
I trade 1-5k lots (depending on strength of trend) using 5-minute bars.
Smart routing - yes. I think it routed through the NYSE which would explain the nonsense. The Island is the only way to go with the Q's. You...
I found slippage on short sales to be especially horrible. It seemed like I always got a fill just shy of the inside market every time, with slow...
One of the benefits to the DYN fiasco - an end to this memorable commercial: "Please pass the potatoes - I think they're in Chicago." That...
Not to mention the spate of bugs in their latest releases. They fix some, introduce others and tell us more fixes are coming. In the meantime...
Better I take their money than they take mine. :D I love the people like Art cashin who say short selling is risky due to unlimited risk....
You wanna know something? All these gov't hacks should rot in prison, Dem or Rep. They're all on the take. The biggest perpertrators of fraud and...
I stay calm win or lose. I can control my gains or losses. It's when my ISP cable connection or IB connection malfunctions, which I have no...
It's low-cost because you don't pay for talking bulls and bears on TV, not because they're any less of a broker than Datek or AMTD.
At least the latest version of TWS doesn't clear the buy and sell lines like the recent one did. I set up a buy and a sell for about 5 stocks in...
The way my week has been going, I think I'll go and bandage all my whipsaw wounds and wait for earnings to come out later.:) It's been that...
Same here - 2 disconnects.
Ken - Didn't know you were on this board! I haven't seen a Saturday chat in quite a while. Any plans for an upcoming one? They were super!
Sounds like the kind of day I've been having all month :( I've been doing much better trading off 30-minute bars than intraday scalps.
The only overnight holds I have are shorts. Unless a company takeover is announced you're much safer with gaps. I've seen gap downs of 25-50% but...
What nobody has dared to say, of course is that much of the corporate shenanigans was due to such a bad influence in the White House. Remember: If...
Absolutely. Notice how quiet they are on Martha Stewart, a stalwart liberal democrat, and how they're salivating over Bush and Cheney's...
They do have tick charts; just select 'tick chart' under the chart type dropdown menu (Interval, Daily, P&F, T&S, etc). As for options I never use...
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