for shorter term trades I avoid stocks that have b-s spread greater than 0.2%. This way spread effectively does not matter for me. I pay a flat fee of $20 per trade so if trade is worth say $10k then fee+spread cost are in 0.4% range which is not too bad. With high vol stocks the spread gets so...
ECG: I agree - it is annoying because it never gives you the REAL TRUE picture of their portfolio value and performance. In other words - the whole history is useless - pitty they do this that way , or may be : this is EXACTLY why they run that this way so that they can lure people to their...
I agree that most probably all signals are purely computer generated and are based only on stock price movements. They ignore volume. I use their AUTRALIAN version (AB).
:!: CAUTION re BUY-SELL performance that they quote : they use a very nasty trick while listing in their stocks' HISTORY both...