Baron, It would be useful to be able to recommend posts like they do over at the Motley Fool site. This would then give more recognition of...
Babak, Thanks for your suggestions. I looked over the Wilshire web site but wasn't able to find any list of stocks (unlike the Russell site)....
tntneo, OK, but then you must specify what 'TOP' is for you ! Please re-read my posts. I'm looking for the top capitalized companies....
ArchAngel, There's no such thing as the "TOP" 5000-6000 stocks. Going out that far makes "top" meaningless. The market cap of the stocks...
Does anyone know where I can get a list of tickers of the top (by capitalization) 5000 to 6000 stocks traded on US exchanges? I know I can...
Stevene9, They're here (they've been here for a while, haven't they?) http://www.cbot.com/cbot/quotes/equity_futures/0,1963,DJ,00.html Richard
ArchAngel, Thanks for your input. I'm looking into a strategy that involves mechanically puting on a OTM put credit spread on the SP500 futures...
Margin requirements on options on futures is determined by SPAN. PC-SPAN is available for purchase for $500. I'm interested to know whether...
Tom_P, That was the funniest thing I've read in a long time. Do you moonlight as a commedian on the weekends? The markets are not open, you...
ADCTrader, Thanks for your contribution. I checked out amazon.com, which Appel book do you recommend: 1) Stock Market Trading Systems, or 2)...
IndexTrader, You might be interested to look at the article series on the use of Excel in trading written by Murray A. Ruggiero in Futures...
Today I did some further experimenting with running IB's client2.exe code which implements communication with the TWS with sockets. Today, was...
Splat, Probably the best known purveyor of signal processing applications to trading, at least for futures, is John Ehlers. His recent book,...
Alan, You don't need to know the password to use the demo TWS. Try it. The password (whatever it is) is ready typed into the password space...
Wonderduck, >What's the user and password for the futures demo login I didn't need to know these to log in. These are automatically provided...
Anyone here had any luck running the sample IB programs with the TWS futures demo or with your actual futures account. My tests with the...
dozu888, Thanks for your input. I just noticed that the solution to my problem was offered at Wealth-Lab.com by TraderNewbie who suggested I...
dozu888, I'm envious of your success. I'm still struggling. Since the begining of this thread I've moved on to a new computer running Win2000...
Yannis, I know about as much about TCI as there is to know from visiting their website, speaking to their salespeople, I even spoke to the...
I just PM'd you with some questions about TCI. Please look for it. Richard
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