I just realized via a post on uglychart that I can use QuoteTracker as my charting software for free, since I happen to have an old Ameritrade account lying around. That may be great news for me, since I spend too much energy fighting with Scottrade’s platform (and their occasionally wrong charts!). I wonder if I can set it up to get quotes from Ameritrade, and place orders through scottrade? If not, I can just enter orders through scottrade’s platform. No big deal. I’m going to play with it this weekend! Thanks, Ugly!
Great… one more thing I want to get done this weekend… it’s amazing how fast things pile up! I’ve got so many articles I want to write, now that I’ve been staring at options stuff for a week! I hope you’ll all enjoy it. Between that and some StockTickr work I’ve been promising Dave for a while, and some IB TWS API investigation I’m doing, not to mention all the binge drinking I have planned, something’s going to have to give :-)
Secondly, I wanted to point out the Trade 4 Cash blog, to anyone who hasn’t seen it yet. I think this trader’s style is interesting, and quite a bit different that what most of us day/swing-traders do. That’s why I tried to convince him more than once that what he really wanted to do was contribute here. I think he would have been a great addition and contrast for Move the Markets, but it just wasn’t meant to be. So, until I can get him to change his mind, check out his site. Even if you don’t end up following his trades, you will probably still find some of the weekly articles interesting (such as this one about how some of his systems do better without stops).
If I get anything written this weekend, then I’ll see you then. Otherwise, have a great weekend and let’s finish off January deep in the green next week! I’m going on 10R so far in January, which in risk:reward terms is my biggest month ever, I think.
January 26th, 2007 at 6:55 pm
Richard: You can get quotes from Scottrade, but you can’t trade through them in QT– Scottrade doesn’t provide any interface. You’ll have to watch in one and trde in the other. I do that with my Free Zecco/Free QT platform. :-)
Congrats on Jan, also!
January 26th, 2007 at 8:13 pm
@Prospectus: thanks for the info. I’m seeing on their website that it’s only free for Ameritrade users with at least $2000 in their account, and I only left $1700 in mine. :-( Maybe I will make it a side project to trade the ameritrade account up to $2000. That might be fun. Without margin that will probably be harder than it sounds!
January 27th, 2007 at 3:23 pm
QT is also free to users who have an account through MB Trading. I’m not sure if there’s a minimum account size or not.
January 28th, 2007 at 10:39 am
it’s not like it costs a lot anyway… just $60 a year for the ad-free version. Well worth the moola. I started using it a few months ago and love it. I’m switching my account to IB as well so I can chart and trade from one platform.
January 28th, 2007 at 11:09 am
@em, I know, I just think it would be fun to play some penny stocks and see if I can get the ameritrade account up into the “free” range. If I draw the account down to $60, I will close it and use the remaining $60 to pay for QT. :-) Assuming I end up liking the product….