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Strategies & Market Trends : DAYTRADING Fundamentals -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Eric P who wrote (197)	6/7/1999 7:46:00 PM
From: Eric P	Read Replies (8) \| Respond to of 18137

If possible, I would love to see each of the more experienced folks put together a short informational post discussing a topic that interests them. Perhaps on the effect of 24 hour trading, or how to find a good daytrading broker, or how to best use RT3, or perhaps a daytrading books list (with a sentence about why you liked each), or anything... Come 'on guys, let's get creative. What do you say Truff, Alan, TLC, Tai Jin, Palo Alto, just to name a few? ==> I can't offer you an SI T-shirt, but I'll give you a link in the next "THREAD SUMMARY" post! Now that's something you can tell your grandkids about! For any of the newbies out there, perhaps you could suggest a topic of general interest and someone will try to address it for you. Let's keep this thread a place where we all can learn a bit more about daytrading. It takes a little time, but I think we will all benefit. Happy Trading, and keep those posts coming. -Eric

To: Eric P who wrote (197)	6/7/1999 9:04:00 PM
From: Dan Spangenberg	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 18137

Yes, test stocks are great, but be careful. Some brokers charge commissions for executions on the test stocks. I was charged by MBT for executions done on one of them, it cost me $80.00. I was also told that it would affect my daily buying power. Castle does not charge. I'm not sure about the others. It seems to me that it should be free to allow us to do exactly what you mention here. Test and learn the system. The test stocks are also not as "real" as you would like them to be. SNET is usually just ignored by the MM's. I don't think I have ever had an order executed via SNET/MM. But it is great to get the feel of SOES and ISLD and the various ECN's. Great Thread BTW. Dan