:confused: Can anyone give a definition of what is meant by tape reading and what strategies it is useful for (e.g. only useful for scalping,...
:confused: I had read on this forum at some time that you can short QQQs on a downtick, but I have also recently heard that the uptick rule...
Previous post, thanks for that point: that it depends on what you trade. I forgot to mention I like to trade QQQs. Thanks for all the other good...
No, I wasnt looking for a 3 month vacation, I have just been told that volume and liquidity and volatility are so low in the summer months that...
Do all of the traders here take the summer months off? By summer, does this mean June, July, August? When the summer doldrums begin, is it a...
Magna, thanks, this is good info; sorry to be so clueless, but I am also confused about the following point: are partial fills possible on limit...
Using CyberTrader, is there any way to avoid partial fills? Or what is the best way to handle them? Trying to trade QQQs in lots of 2000.
Thats really interesting about protrader going away -- I think they are the very last retail office left here in Atlanta. Somebody correct me if...
Does anyone here have thoughts about / experience with protrader's gr8trade?
Does anybody know of a good free simulator out there which allows you to trade on yesterday's data, for any given stock, make trades, track profit...
Does anybody know about Synergy Investments, they are I think based in Charlotte and, they have a direct access retail trading office in Atlanta...
It was only an example to ask how margin works for shorting, it wasn't something I was actually planning to do.
If I have 4:1 margin, and a 25,000 account, I can buy 4000 shares of a 25 dollar stock -- my question is, with the same account and margin rules,...
cashonly, This is all real good info, thanks for the links etc. - you sound pretty serious about this, are you working on something? I am...
has anyody tried marketstream sdk? http://www.uniserv.com/gen_sdk.htm
I am a c++ programmer myself and I am interested in pursuing some of these same ideas -- where do you get your data feed? Are there DLLs, OCXs...
I take it that bullets are distinct and different from the practice of having "linked accounts" where you would be long the stock on one account...
Greetings to the forum members from this newbie looking for a little advice. I am a computer programmer of 15 years. I have tried a little...
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