Firms don't like to offer otions to their daytraders since..... 1. They don't have risk managers to monitor traders. 2. Options are paid for...
someone posted a buy in scenario 2-3weeks ago and it looked kinda ugly. The way it was described was that your shorts got yanked out from under...
One of the better ones I've seen is when a trader brings his girl to the floor, lean on a booth maybe to show her his cards then someone sticks...
I get quotes thru DDE and fire off orders using COM which has a couple of events such as trade reports, order modify . i.e. Order.qty=100...
I have an Excel sheet which takes in quotes using DDE and then the events is part of the COM object which I try to write to XL cells. Maybe I will...
Hi. I have programmed a couple of Auto systems using Excel VBA and REDI as well as Excel and Kawabunga which is Merrill Pro platform. In both...
Can anyone kindly tell me what the diff is between COM and FIX? I have programmed my Excel auto system in REDI and Sterling using COM. Excel...
If u trade options in addtion to just hitting downticks, u could make an asertion that u are doing put.call parity arb so it might be a safe harbor.
Handle. any suggestions on how to avoid false breakouts of ACD in stocks. for every 1 ACD breakout on A up ,there are usually 3-5 that go above...
Read the John Bender piece on Stock market wizards. Very interesting piece on modelling your own prob dist. It is only about 2 paragraphs but...
Steelhead, could you elaborate a little on what changes you've noticed on the NYSE? Thanks
Thanks for all who responded. I might take the yahoo or even use IB enstead of messing w esig
There's got be a way to get delayed data in XL using DDE w/o using esignal or using windows API to control datamanaager. After all in data...
I am using Excel DDE to connect to esignals data manager. I request 50 symbols at a time, delete the dde link request a new set of 50 symbols. THe...
Corey, how did you play that spread intraday, I was looking at the hi.lo on 10 min bars and there was pretty much a 20-30 cent spread. Is that...
A little off topic just rermember that Giants lost their best end in Strahan and went 1-7 and the Jet lost theirs and almost beat a 15-1 team!...
Would anyone here know how to break or suspend a DDE link to XL. I have eignal and I feed RT quotes to XL. The problem is that I only need...
I also got the notice regarding short sales. It does say it only affects non-market maker accounts as far as Merrill goes. I guess it depends if...
Hi riskarb. Which of his books discusses what you posted earlier in this thread? I looked at Amazon and he has a couple such as Wilmotts on...
Any futures prop in the NJ area?
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