Actually, I was referring to an index tracking the number of new traders as a contrarian signal, not an index of articles.
Someone needs to compile an ET newbie question index.
Even the futures markets aren't necessarily a 0 sum game as a lot of the participants are using it as a way to hedge the physical...
Reserve order. Most ECNs will allow you to set a maximum displayed size (100 in this case), regardless of how big the actual order is (~100,000)...
They screwed me last week on a stop order. I had a sell stop market at .27, bid drops to .26 which should have triggered the stop, but nothing...
It means that you can make one more daytrade without triggering PDT. Note that you can make no more than 3 daytrades in a 5 BUSINESS DAY...
It keeps you from selling the stock at a loss to get the tax writeoff and then buying it right back to keep your position effectively the same.
Don Bright did a good explanation in one of the chats a couple of months ago. Check the logs.
Are the NYSE rules available online anywhere?
...and he eats for a day. Teach a man to fish and he spends every weekend sitting in a boat drinking beer.
Like most broker's quote feeds, IB lumps prints of identical prices together when the quote rate exceeds a certain threshold. So, in a slow...
Thanks Ambush, but I had already found that and was looking for something that specifically addressed the single opening / multiple closing issue....
No, I got back from a week's vacation and when I checked my "day trades remaining", it was at 0. Emailed IB and they replied that I was flagged...
Thanks. Do you happen to have a link to the rule? IB just locked my account for 90 days and searching the NASD web site is like looking for a...
If a single opening trade is offset by 2 closing trades (ie. buy 200, sell 100, sell 100), assuming they all occur on the same day, does this...
DID they fill you at .05 when you could have gotten .04, or are you afraid they MIGHT fill you a penny or 2 over. I had the same concerns, but...
I've said it before, and I'll say it again: as long as I get filled quickly at the inside I couldn't care less who takes the other side of my...
1. I like QT - it's what I was using long before I opened an IB account and what I am used to. 2. I find TWS very cumbersome to use and make...
Today I shorted NSC at 20.70 through quotetracker. After the execution went through, I went to TWS and did an OCA stop/limit bracket. When I...
I've been using them now for about 9 or 10 months and couldn't be happier. With the exception of the first 15 minutes or so after the open, I...
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