3000 trades in 6 months is about 25 trades a day. That's about 1 trade every 15 minutes. That may or may not be excessive. I suppose if you...
Felix, If you have direct experience with trades not getting executed, then you should contact the broker(s) directly to find out why? It is...
If the exercise is NOT ABOUT MAKING MONEY, then post only the BID PRICE for the entry and the exit, so you can eliminate the spread from the...
Loki, A better / more legitimate test of the random trade generator program would be to enter randomly but exit only after either a 10% profit...
The DOW was dropping 100 points a minute. There was no question that we were going down. I think it comes down to what do you want to do while...
That's easy. Just add or remove a few "bogus" rules to your strategy that will make it unsuccessful. For instance add "and DaysInTrade > 10"...
I don't use autotrader, but I do use other fully robotic stock trading software, and can say that it is not necessary for a software provider to...
I run multiple unattended automated traders and there is no way to "manually" trade them. You would go crazy. My measure of a successful...
Buying on dips and selling on on a run-up (on pullbacks) destroys buy & hold. As dump as they are, mutual funds will survive though simply...
The age of the files does not matter. The samples are still valid. I have been programming with the TWS API since 2004. Though my program has...
join the yahoo group calls TWSAPI and you can get sample programs to start with. Ed
Interactive Brokers trading fees are also great ($1 for 200 shares or less). Also you can find sample programs to help you get started, in many...
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Outstanding! Thank you.
I'm looking into trading pink sheet stocks and imagine an "all or none"/"fill or kill" limit order is probably the way I would like to go. I...
Thank you "everyone" for helping with the market order vs limit order discussion. Based on the what I have learned regarding the order types....
That is very insightful / helpful. Much of that I was not aware of. Thanks a lot! Ed
So, you are saying you can use market orders. It IS legal. But it is advisable to use limit orders only. Thanks!
Someone today mentioned that you cannot submit a market order for a pink sheet stock. I don't trade pink sheet stocks, but am considering it....
What amazes me is Warren Buffet's $34 BILLION in railroads. Now that's a lot of money for one investment. Seems like it completely ignores...
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