I post here to get new ideas and understand the open, which includes what works and what does not work. If you stop trading every strategy that...
Its my opinion that 20 new traders placing open orders at only 20,000 shares in IBM would without any doubt in at least my might make a difference...
The opening print for bzh was for 1,800 shares so 1 to 2k shares is large for BZH. Today There could have been a order in at 57.06 and the...
I used a .9 envelope and had no fills. No fills is ok with me, I want profitable fills. MWD is on my list too, it would of took a .6 envelope...
I had no fills on friday and no fills one day the week before and several one fill days. Fills seems to come and go with Open Orders and so does...
IB will cancel nyse orders and fills them on instanet, island or use TMBR. They do it with my limit orders. All in all i am very happy with...
Some post they avoid news and others post that they don't avid news stocks. People use the word news like there is news and no news. Its, of...
some people post and rip people without reading the whole message. I too got a buy-in notice on UAL at IB. I bought on wednessday. Ticked me...
I use IB and ever once in a while i have my order not filled. I have never heard a good explaination. Some have said the order needs to be in 2...
glad to hear noone got killed on VZ, SBC, or BLS. maybe the ugliest opening ever. no chance to get out. its only a miricle that i avoided the...
I took a look at the KSS time and sales and it was ugly. If you waited for the pullback and played it perfectly and got luck to get filled you...
No reason to get rid of a stock just because it moves 30 cents in two prints, every stock on my list has done that. MRK has been a consistant big...
I signed up for esignal last week, because of the new IB deal. Esignal's datafeed has been has been very fast for me. Charts download instantly....
Rtharp way of having the prop firm reimburse expenses would greatly decrease the audit risk, so its a great idea. Declaring trader status would...
A second thought about your problem. Several thousand dollars not placed in your account for weeks. You need to keep better records. Threat...
I had the same problem once with a deposit i had to IB placed in suspense and noone called me. When the money from my wire did not get credited...
Self employed people have the highest audit rate. So since you are already self employed, the extra trader sch. C should not increase your audit...
MRK kicked me in the ass today. There goes the profits from last week, which was a great week. After 7 straight good days in a row i got greedy...
Don, I thought your answer was quite specific. As for Don's compensation package / ownership stake, its very personal and nobody business....
Enveloping is easier than the exit but if you don't price the Open orders well you will get killed. When to Cut loses quickly is very difficult...
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