I asked the most basic questions and some people tease me; that's fine. Better to get responses quickly here than flip through websites, etc....
I appreciate and agree with all your input. I know I should do the basic work myself, but with so many experts on Et, I thought it's simple...
I might trade the mini NASDAQ100 contracts next year; I have less than $5,000. How many contracts can I daytrade? If I capture about 1% intraday...
Currently I'm contemplating staying out of stock trades during January '03, so I don't have to bother with the wash-sale rule. What if I (I've...
The article mentioned seems to say that you just need to stay out all of December or the January of the following year; are you suggesting that I...
So how does one get these platforms? What are the requirements?
I never had more than about $10,000 in all my accounts, (I opened my first trading account-E-trade-with $2,000 three years ago.) and also had to...
I had similar experience (almost exact same) dealing with Datek, as several people who posted on this thread. Now I know that my experience was...
I asked a question about where to get cheap data service on another forum, and several people gave their opinions. One thing that I never...
This issue never became serious for me until this year ... You know about the wash-sale rule where if you buy or sell the same securities...
I have tentatively decided to open an IB account. I would need to get some data service. I generally trade only a few stocks at a time, and...
Many here say good things about IB, so I'll take them more seriously. For now, my problem is that I have very limited amount of money and can...
Also ... I talked to another guy soon afterwards, and he told me that 17 seconds on market order is pretty quick, it could take up to 1 minute...
myTrack; after 1 month, I'm not exactly happy with them; but at the same time, I still think it was a good decision to get a software-based DAT...
Yesterday, I opened a long position in NXTL, with a market order, using my broker's automatic routing. The order was routed to NITE and was...
I've been trading for 3 years; first starting with swing trading and pure intraday trading for about 6 months. I'm finally good at this to a...
I have a small account and that's all the money I have. If I have a problem exiting a trade, and I can't reach Customer Service by phone, I'd...
I've used myTrack for a month and already I notice serious problems. Twice I was charged ECN fees when I was entitled to rebate. Then when I...
you better hedge the position with cheap, out-of-money options, (short SSF hedged with cheap OM calls, for example) to avoid wipeout. Sooner or...
I would only daytrade SSF's; you don't want to hold SSF's overnight on 20% margin and see the stock gap 20% against you the next day. Commodities...
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