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 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...
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...
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'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...
I'll try this AOL DSL free for a month. One thing I realized while hooking up this stuff is that, I now only have DSL (the one wall phone jack...
Q1) If I will only follow 1 stock intraday, with a dynamic real-time price, one intraday chart, and real time Time/Sale for that stock (and maybe...
There was a thread asking what Myers-Brigg type people were. Many respondents were INTP or INTJ men. (I am an INTJ.) Now, if you are an INTJ...
I have personally never met or heard of another trader in Houston. Are there traders on ET from Houston? I know there's Tradesman, but anyone...
I signed up with a DAT broker. Their smart routing system lets me enable only a certain ECN's & preferencing methods. Initially I decided to...
What do people think about MyTrack, a DAT? I originally looked at IB, but a MyTrack customer told me bad things about IB, and recommended...
The under 25k stock traders live under the pattern daytrading rule. Now IB has $1/contract commission on SSF; or $10 for 1000 share equivalent...
Datek had told me that stops on NASDAQ stocks are activated when NBBO reaches the stop activation price. One question: what if the NBBO on...
I signed up with a DAT broker; I'm wondering if I should use their smart routing or simply route to Isld each time. (first my trading style:...
First, I'm new to L2 and DAT ... On my broker's Time and Sales I saw symbols C and S: Broker explained that C is Cincinnati and S is Nasdaq;...
A daytrader told me that IB holds stops internally and sometimes fails to put them out to market when the stops are activated. Thus a trader will...
I wonder if any direct-access broker will let me open a margin account with less than $5000. I'm with Datek now, but it's not a real option for...
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