Achilles: You say you trade "off the chart" using tick data. If by this you mean manually, and that is my supposition, I'd say virtually no...
Achilles: It's not tick-by-tick, it's sampled between 3 and 10 times per second. So in a very fast moving market you may miss some moves. But...
Blue: Because deep book info is very resource-intensive. Instead of a single level (quote\sale) showing bid/ask and size, there are 10...
Sam: Three things: The Futures exchanges are regulated by the CFTC, not the SEC\FINRA. Two different regulatory bodies. The Day Trader rule...
dst: One thing I've always found bothersome - As far as I can determine there is no way to determine precisely what level of TWS is available...
Bob: I've been a commission-paying IB guinea pig for over a decade. Unfortunately, I can no longer test the new releases with "real data" on a...
FYI: This was posted in a long-established Yahoo group this morning: Just heads-up for TWS users. TWS 945.1 is buggy, especially web version -...
I think IB has two $10 fees they waive for $30/month in commissions. Account (Inactivity fee) and the US Market Data package fee. I'm not sure...
It does not matter what time of day you trade, nor really for how long - the IRS says that: Special rules apply if you are a trader in...
Whether you are making money or losing money, a Trader in Securities/Futures, as recognized by the IRS, can take many deductions that are either...
Adding Multicharts with trading capability raises cost by $39 a month, a lot more than $0. So Barron's probably does not consider any add-ons...
JMiles301: You might take a look at this: http://techverse.net/how-to-troubleshoot-google-chromes-high-cpu-memory-usage/ Jack
Kafe: If you are going to trade in an automated manner there is a very good chance that you will become a "pattern day trader"(PDT). In order...
Mac: I'm not really into these things but I can add a little to what you are seeking. CL Futures are traded electronically and in "the pit"....
TICK-NYSE Problem? Not sure if it's my machine or TWS --- Using IB's charts (2 Hour - 1 minute) I can see the TICK-NYSE going above and below...
1) Not exactly, but the thread has morphed into an informal QT support thread (TD Ameritrade has dropped support of QT). 2) Yes. 3) Real Soon...
This is from an older thread. The guy mentioned, Rob Hoffman, ran a trading room in which he traded live. He taught the use of the maringale...
Download and install the patch from here: http://www65.zippyshare.com/v/77716919/file.html Once installed QT (Help) will show 3.9.8a
TonkaDad: First download and install: http://www.quotetracker.com/download/qtsetup.exe Then download and install from here:...
For anyone using BookTrader - I'm currently running TWS 936.9. I upgraded to 939.3 this weekend and tried it out on the Demo account. I was...
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