ok I know what I want to trade and I don't need real time I just want to trade inbetween days every day. I don't need the platform to give me any information about the stock market. does anyone know of a platform I could use to do this really cheaply? hopefully on a monthly fee basis instead of a per trade commission?
whoa wait a second quotetracker is a platform and is free? or is it telling me that I still have to trade through a broker and it just provides quotes?
You can trade thru Datek directly from the quotetracker interface. They may support a few others, I'm not sure. No, IB is not currently supported. Check 'em out... http://www.quotetracker.com
ok do you know of any type of platform that I can trade on daily maybe on a monthly fee basis, not per trade? because I don't currently have a lot of money to invest in stocks but I want to make a few trades every day.
The new SEC rules effective end of Aug require 25K min to daytrade. You're out of business partner....sorry.
There has been a lot of discussions on elite trader about the new margin rules. Check out http://www.elitetrader.com/vb/showthread.php?threadid=1551 , the New Daytrading rule in September 01' thread. Fohat