Stock market dealing

[Arbu]

I haven't looked into Alpaca
Presumably you don't use a screener, then?

Have you tried TradingView? I have a grudge against them because I found they really do treat susbscibers like dirt, and it has endless snags. Ipaid up and used the subscriber version but found the screens wer fuzzy, witthe text sort--of fading away. They were useless. The solution t o tat is to no use the downloaded paid-for versio. Ridicuous.
IF you typre "stock screener" into a search engine, the version of TV you get is no use for intraday, it only has 1day as the minimuntime column and sayyou have to pay..
Even in the paid version, you have to pay extra for actual date, not a proxy thing, . That's per exchange and the price mounts up, and they don't tell you.
If you search on TV + an instrument upyou get one mode, a chart from which you can get a decent(for TV) screener.
If you go to https://www.tradingview.com/screener/ you get a more usable screener.
It's a mess., but once you're there it's usable, finding active names fairy well.

I assume you didn'y know that then or you'd have said.

None of the screeeners afaik give what I want, which is an indicator (notification/display) of the slope of the trace.

I want to see if the price is turNING over a top/bottom.
I want something I can set to give the gradient in columns for say the previous 1,2,3,4,5,10,15,20 . minutes
So if I own something which is rising, I would be able to see if the gradient reduces and how long it has been doing that. And of course whether it has gone flat.
It could well be someone has produced exactly that already. I though it would be doable in Excel, but afaik that only gets daily prices.

have yo seen anything like that?

No. As I say, pay for data, and just write it.

 

[Justin Passing]

No. As I say, pay for data, and just write it.

what do yu pay for?

 

[Arbu]

what do yu pay for?

market data on all major US exchanges. Check out their website.

 

[Justin Passing]

So, what do you use Alpaca for? Are you using it for a screener?
Do you trade with it? I thought you only used IG.

 

[Arbu]

I tried it but it wasn't profitable, like all these other strategies. Just saying we could write a screener doing what you ask for with it.

 

[Justin Passing]

It looks free for non business users. Proabably haven't looked deep enough.
Still not sure what you were paying for. Was it Level 2 data? I assume IG price data is ok .....?

Watch IHUMAN. Bonkers last few days

 

[Arbu]

It looks free for non business users. Proabably haven't looked deep enough.
Still not sure what you were paying for. Was it Level 2 data? I assume IG price data is ok .....?

Watch IHUMAN. Bonkers last few days

The free version was very limited on the amount of requests you could make. But I still didn't get level 2 data, even when I paid. IG doesn't have much pre-market pricing, and uses its own language unlike alpaca which uses Python which I considered more useful to learn.

 

[Justin Passing]

TRying not to sit at the desk all day I've been using some of the defence stocks like RHM and Thales and a couple of the leveraged etf's 3 KWE for China, 3gld for gold miners
3BAL for Euro banks. 3x DAX at the moment. 3BAL is up 2.4x since start of year. There's 3x RR and 3x Lloyds, Barclays.
Trading 212 has expanded its range of etfs. I might not be with them much longer, I told their Help people their reply was BS today. The platform sticks, and they claim illiquidity. The other day it was that rarely traded NVIDIA, today it was Gold. They are thoroughly dishonest, lying, direspectful, obfuscatory, incompetent and stupid.. Apart from that,.....
WIthdrawals have always been ok, so....

I'm nostly chasing the same coupele of names all day. Addicted now, I'm inclined to feel time is wasted when there's money to be earned. so - next post

 

[Justin Passing]

#INVESTING
The stock markets are in turmoil ringht now butthat's all in the USA really.
Europe in doing fine A few Euro stocks are useful too.
So I though, how about using just the best performers. 6 stocks, say I picked a figure of 20% growth in the last 3 months. It would be good to think one could have a list of "names" being used, and a backup list under watch ready to add or replace the "best" if they weakened.

So I looked at a UK list (Hargreaves L) and was surprised to see how many I could pick from. This is from the FTSE 100. There are a few on the all-share, index, smaller so likely to be more volatile
Blue mark means they have a good dividend - not all looked up, and Orange means theres a 2x , leveraged version as an option. WHen the stock is I bought a number today, 2 units of ££ for single s , or 1 unit single and 1 unit leveraged where that';s an option.doing particularly well, those make most sense..
DIvidends vary a lot, from nearly nothing to near 10%.

In some cases, the performance wasn't quite 20% but say the 6month or 1 month was very good.

I bought some of sevral of these today, 2 units of ££ each, or 1 & 1 where there's a leveraged option.
We'll seee how they do.

Additionally, there are some ETF's (which are bundles of stocks, on a theme) which are doing well.
Like 3x European banks (3BAL) The German stockmarket x3 (3DAX), Defense stocks, DFEN, NATP, KTOS, , gold/miners (3GLD) and a couple of others..
WHen I can be Rsed I'll make up a table.

 

[Justin Passing]

Dropped the ball rather on 3GDX. Thats a 3x leveraged Gold miners. ETF
It has been doing well fror a while

Obviously, one has to recognise it goes down as well as up.
But I have a strong preference for things to go up when I first buy them. I usually watch, until I can put a stop-loss in above my buying price.
I did two things wrong this time. Lack of sleep was the problem - .
One was to "buy at open", which means you get a spiked-up price, the the second was to forget all about it.
Down a few grand in a day, the bit represented by today's candle, marked.
Quite annoying when it wasn't necessary.