in my opinion, start out swing trading first, no pattern day trading rule for one, and you'll loose less in commissions.
I noticed this too this week and I spoke to IB about this. Apparently the only solution to the datafeed problem is to create a new user in your...
Thanks for your response. There is the DDE excel that came with the IB download package. Is that what you are referring to. Because it...
Hi folks, Basically i'm looking for something like excel to be able to create orders and send them through IB's API. I looked into IB's excel...
depends on your size, if you trade about 100 shares or less then yes it is, if you primarily use limit orders and wait to get hit, then yes it is...
you can do anything you want using excel's macros. It uses a program called Visual basic. Basically what you said isn't hard to do but you need a...
Thought this chart might be of interest. http://www.google.com/trends?q=facebook&ctab=0&geo=all&date=all&sort=0 the popularity of facebook...
Would creating subaccounts affect the PDT rule? For example if I were to have 3 accounts with $10,000 each. Would i be able to daytrade all the...
Did we see a short squeeze in the first 20 mins of SPY/ES action? I have a feeling a lot of people sold short the open because of the quake.
Input director works perfectly for thus, no delay at all going from pc1 to pc2, no hardware required and its free, instal takes like 10 mins to...
Low volume illiquid stocks can have widespreads too. Check out finviz.com and use their screener.
Yeah i'm also looking for something like this. I figured I'd need a full customizable trade entry/exit software that runs through IB's api.
You could always hold a quarter of the position and put a trailing stop of like 25% or whatever you deem is the better % number. Ie if a stock is...
I believe earth does gain a few hundred tons a day from space debris/dust. But then again there might be some loss of mass through atmosphere gas...
I saw an ad for a very similar coupon website. The ad looked just like groupon, but was called wagjag.com. Seems to me that it is a very easy...
Hi there, can you lead me in the right direction of how to get streaming quotes from yahoo to excel? I'd imagine it's free right. Thanks,...
There's this but this is historical data, you may want to ask up to what date is the data available. The most recent is nov 5th 2010....
Could you explain in more detail what you meant by this. Thanks
I totally agree. This in my opinion is probably one of the major reasons why TA works in many instances. I believe statistically speaking the...
Retaildaytrader, Just wondering how your able to add the $SPX chart on the background of that $SPXA50R chart. Is that a members only feature?...
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