Recent content by Scrooge_McDuck

Yep, there's no way to know exactly how many shares there are available due to hidden orders. There are HFT algos that try to sniff out the presence of large orders but thats a whole different game. I'm not sure what's the best way to minimize slippage but I would recommend limit orders...

Hello, I'll try to answer as best I can :) No, not all trades occur on the exchange on which a stock is listed. Quite a bit of volume is traded on other exchanges called ECNs (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electronic_communication_network). Although NYSE now has their own ecn, NYSE arca. You...

I have a mac and use windows for trading. What you need to do is get a copy of windows and install bootcamp on your mac - > http://www.apple.com/support/bootcamp/

He has a bunch of them in a private subforum here. You need to apply for access. There's a lot of posts, maybe some day I'll post a list of all the bookmarks I collected and organize it into sections. Also I don't trade his strategy exactly, I kinda just used it as a starting point and added...

The whole situation was a real shame, this board lost a great teacher when he left. I wish I had learned about trading and trade2win earlier when he was here. I really recommend reading his posts on the technical trading subforum if you want to learn about trading, they are very informative...

I would highly recommend using cable, dsl, or fiber optic. Like you mentioned satellite internet has horrible latency, which makes it unsuitable for day trading. If you were swing/position trading it might be sufficient but if cable or dsl is available I would just get it and save the trouble.

Hey everyone, I've been trying to narrow down a software package for automated trading. I'm looking for a fully automated program that can scan a large number of stocks (hundreds+) using custom criteria and then execute my strategy on any stocks that pass the scan. It would be a nice bonus...

Help deciding a trading software package [moved to software forum] I moved the post to the trading software forum.

Hey everyone, just starting out on trading and I hope to trade full time eventually.