Following on from lat week's day session with Naz, I have downloaded the demo s'ware from Investin.com who seem very helpful. Tons and tons of moving parts and flashing data take a bit of getting used to but as Naz and others have said the s'ware and execution speeds and drag & drop and all the other functionality is pretty outstanding. I feel I am back in the wild west again, this is the real real thing (sorry for the messianic tone but it's true). Get the move right in MSFT & INTC and the rest follows, sometimes on a lagged basis which can point to potential trades in related names in both uk & us.
One question which needs time and effort is whether to go for a PDT account (note new acronym) ie 25k or so, or as Lawman says spend monthly cash (100 a month sounds a lot - how do you get to that sum btw?) to learn the system and how to trade using L2. What about IB for dealing and a monthly L2 feed? Tradesmart what are the charts like on Chartstream and can you get L2 prices there as well? It would be sueful to have a regular interchange of ideas - once the systems are set up - on stocks that we are using and having success with , set ups, views on the market (esp the Nasdaq of course), probably ongoing comment on the 2 biggies as mentioned above. the Godfather (alias Naz) can look over the chat from on high and perhaps give a steer - or three!!
Here's one link that may be useful: towards the bottome of the nasdaq.com page see the pre mkt heat map and also useful is the ETF heat map. Looks like the telco tech names are bid up as they were yesterday.
