If you take a look a couple of threads ago, you'll see NOT to use Scottrade:...
stock777, I can't use limit most of the time. I need to get into a trade within about a half a second of an event taking place on the market,...
syswizard is correct about the real-time OS summary. In fact, my in-house server for database and web applications (isn't that an oxymoron?) is...
Please don't question the efficacy of my computer setup. I can assure you that I know more about software and hardware than anyone else in this...
Thanks for the side-by-side example, traderich. Thanks to everybody for comments and conversation. I'm glad to see I'm not the only one who has...
DataCruncher, No problem. As to stop limit orders, I've never used them so I can't say. I usually use trailing stops, often jumping out on the...
sunggong, Even when Scottrade was behaving properly, extremely busy times (like the first 60 seconds of the day) would cause 10 to 15 second...
DataCruncher, You may very well have some slippage with your stop-markets. I usually get a price which is at or within about .1% of my stop...
Honesty requires that I say some good things about Scottrade. You have seen fairly convincing evidence that their market executions lack in many...
I haven't used a TTO yet, but I can comment on their stops and trailing stops. While their executions are instantaneous, we haven't quite figured...
stock777, Quite true. With MB Trading we've had a couple of unlucky executions when things started tumbling right at the mouse click. One was...
Selecto, Very typical with them. Well, of course in a volatile market anything can happen, but I've seen it happen in fairly stable stocks...
I felt like it was time for a public service message about Scottrade. Never mind that their Elite software suffered from version upgrade problems...
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