Conventionally, a bracket order has one entry order, one stop loss order and one target order, but I'd like to have more than one target order in...
As far as I know, the only way to place a bracket order is by calling EClientSocket.placeOrder() with a parent order and then immediately calling...
As you know. after hours run from 4PM to 8PM, but when the stock market closes early at 1PM, like the day after Thanksgiving, what time is after...
Suppose you sold a naked call at a strike price of 100. Today is the last trading day before expiration and the underlying stock is curretnly...
So let's say the time is 3:30PM and you call reqHistoricalData() to request all 5 minute bars between 3:15 and 3:30. Will the return values...
Notice in the attached option chain how some deep out-of-money puts have much higher premiums than those with higher strike. Can you explain why?
I read somewhere that market makers make profits by selling liquidity. What's that mean? Also, is it a low risk low return strategy?
Any one know How big is WFC's exposure to Europe? I'm told BAC is in serious trouble, so how does WFC compare to it overall? I'm thinking to...
Suppose you have stock X and Y that have a negative correlation so that when X rises, Y drops and vice-versa. Moreover, the net percentage move...
Hey all, What do you call this activity- opening a postion and then closing it. I always thought this is called a round trip trade, but...
It appears that the way NinjaTrader does optimization is simply running multiple backtests with a range of values for each parameter in a brute...
Have you seen anyone trading options for a living that never made money trading stocks? Conversely, are successful options traders usually good at...
I'm a beginner in options trading and have limited experience with it. I have sold some covered calls and naked puts, that's pretty much it. The...
Because a straddle involves two separate orders, one for puts and the othere for calls, it's quite possible that only one of them gets filled and...
His Wiki page says: He currently generates the majority of his income through his stock alert service, TimAlerts and several instructional DVD...
My understanding is that many investors do not look at intraday charts because they mostly look at the market close. What about postion...
The only brokerage in Canada I know that supports trading API is Interactive Brokers Canada, but they don't support RRSP or TFSA. Is there any...
Hey all, are the following trading strategies supported, including backtesting, by major trading systems like TradeStation and NinjaTrader? 1....
My book says the payoff ratio is "Average winning trade dollar amount divided by the average losing trade dollar amount". So if you have 10...
Most successful retail traders would tell you that you should treat trading as a business if you want to trade full time, I agree in...
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