Does Yahoo Finance have the dividend amount of a future dividend? http://finance.yahoo.com/q?s=msft has only the ex-dividend date, but not the...
Usually, most data prividers do not immediately release EOD data after market close because they have to consolidate prices from different...
When you synchronize local time for automated trading purposes, there are three types of time you can use as a reference time: exchange time,...
Are all market orders and marketable limit orders guaranteed to be filled at NBBO with SMART routing at Interactive Brokers? If not, will...
Suppose you want to enter the market immediately. Then you have two choices, marketable limit orders and market orders. Which one do you prefer? I...
In pairs trading, two positions must be entered simultaneously. Getting a partial fill, or worse yet, a fill in only one of them will completely...
Suppose I have a long position in a stock currently trading at $9.05 with a protective stop at $9.00. One way to liquidate the position...
When you apply the 2% rule, do you take 2% of trading capital or current cash balance to caculate the amount to risk? For example, if you have...
In a cash account, when you place an order to buy a security, the money required to fill the order is "locked". Suppose you have $10,000 in...
Most day traders will go flat before market close, rather than at close because of liquidity. For example, some stock traders close out all...
I want to close out my position if neither the profit target nor the stop loss are hit within a given period of time. Does TWS have a stop...
I'm new to futures trading. I noticed that there are pre-open hours each day in the futures market. For example the pre-open begins at 17:45 for...
This is a re-post since I posted the old one on the wrong forum. :( Is it possible for stop orders for U.S. stocks to be triggerred in the...
I've never trade futures, so bear with me. I noticed that some futures markets have unusual trading hours. For instance, E-mini S&P 500 Futures &...
How do I set stop orders for U.S. stocks to be triggerred in the pre-market and after-hours market? Thanks.
Can anyone confirm that the stock market is the only finanical market where stop and market orders can only be executed in certain hours(i.e....
Which trading platforms allow a strategy to receive data feed for multiple securities? For example, a strategy might want both real time and...
I'm talking about the likes of NinjaTrader, TradeStation, Multicharts, Amibroker, etc. How long can they run without restart? Can I leave them...
Consider two hypothetical setups. One setup has a winning rate of 55% with a potential profit of $433 and a potential loss of $407. The other...
Suppose I have 500 shares of a stock with no open orders. Now I want to "bracket" that position with one stop loss order and one limit target...
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