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I am only surprised by the price being 6.00 more than previosly. It is the first I have ever heard about a raise since the last 4 years. I guess it has changed this year.
The more you use it, you will really see all the advantages of level 2 depths and time of sales which is a trade by trade portrayal of #of shares in each trade as it happens. At the same time it provides all movement of MMs as it happens, and the right now bid and ask which can move wildly during price movents in either direction.
You will find the occaision that someone has a lesser price tied in with other promotions and try them out for a month or more while cancelling your Bloomfield subscription for now.
Unless it is exactly the same or even better somehow, you will hate it. Remembering how fast it was to give me what I wanted now, not a minute or more ago. Or make me go to anther page first.
Anyway, you will miss it and the simplification of info retrieval as you need it. So you will come back if it was that important to you.
Good luck,
jag
You are welcome Jack, I am happy to help in any way,any time.
Since you do not need obviously need another broker, my first thought is Bloomfield with Pinksheets only at 23.99, you will love it after you figure out how to use it. You can ask me anytime you can't get to the result their set-up instuction manual provides, I learned how to use it pretty well over three years intermittantly. I finally figured out how to set the alarm for stocks and that was wonderful to use.
I tried using a different browser for IHUB today and it did not give me a problem with Choicestream this morning whatsoever. So that may be the answer to my problem, I can only hope it is that easy.
I know what you mean about scans and clean. I just defragmented this on Friday. After I finally deleted a couple of large groupings left in there by my son, his wife and 3 of his daughters. I inherited this after my old one died, and the big deletions left many files ungrouped and fragmented. I had never used even half of the system capacity and that took it from 42% down to 35%. Office uses a lot of space. But I keep this thing clean as a whistle to avoid issues when I am busy.
jag
Jack,
There is much to be said about either one since Choicestream from Choice Trades is from a broker that can give you a better price if you are a semi-active trader (five trades a month =only 30.00, if not, only 44.95 same price as Quotemedia from Bloomfield). This is also an upraded version of that for the same price, I am not really sure still whether or not I like the upgrade. Charting is off the Choicetrade and on the broker page, but is much better if you use that in your determinations. but I did find that if you use the charting and want back to your regular Choicestream portfolio pages you find it does not work right (The first L2display change will not display and that is that, and you have to shut it down and restart it. That is a pain in the rear and even though it takes only a minute or two, it is an interruption that annoys me. And if I am watching a runner while trying to get quick info on it, well you can't take that much time not watching the action and chance losing profits quickly. If you miss the top end, which is a visual signal of the price suddenly stalling in increases and the lower bids start dropping fast. The reversal is usually a lot faster than the rise and in bigger chunks of price if not volume too. Catching it late is a tough sell when it is dropping as fast as it can record. You need a fast response from your broker's designated routing. Choice trade is pretty fast using UBSS, HDSN, AUTO, and NITE. Inputting trades is pretty fast and routing is immediate. Closure usually takes a minute or so to see it, depending on if you are still in the thick of the market and not above it already with a limit sell. Market sells are always dangerous but at times the only way for these runners. The big money will get theirs, you can only hope to sneak in with them. But that is off subject at hand, only points to the fact that was two trades by itself with the broker and you are on the same site you need for quick access to streaming and trading. Unsubscribing should be easy enough to do through CHAT or however it directs you. Closing the broker if you don't need him selling any stocks you hold, transferral likely costs more than it is worth. Like any low cost brokers, the costs to close one imposes good size fees.
Downside: After opening and viewing Choicestream, opening and using IHUB in the morning before noon, just viewing the boards in your favorites, opening one here and there seems to interfere with java and cause a problem that only restarting your computer will solve. That upsets me to no end. That is 7 to 10 minutes before I am back to realtime streaming. It could have something to do with the upgraded version of Choicestream. Charges for it can be anytime , no set schedule and it may not be correct the first time, but in a few days it may or may not be corrected the first time if you had 5+ trades. A few minutes on chat can easily enough clear that up. Anyway you must always hold enough cash to cover these charges. I have yet to speak with Chat (Chat is real quick access usually on most mornings) about this and they may have their own techs for Choicestream or as well send me to Quotemedia support, which would be fine by me.
Quotestream from Bloomfield Investment is a basic program, but I loved it. Great easy L2s, easy quick quotes for basic checking of a symbol's action today without adding to a portfolio to get it, quick addition to a portfolio for real L2 viewing of streaming realtime time and sales list and bid/ask list. Excellent support directly from Quotemedia. Quick response always asks you to clear your browser cache and then close and refresh your feed, I usually responded that was already done. Yor RAM and Virtual Reality limits can be a problem causer. But most other problrms are rare and easily resolved. (See note below). It is easy and free to set up a Paypal site to handle the debit or credit card you are using to pay for this service and cancelling a subscription is easy and no questions asked. Bloomfield often has stock picking contests (not meant or designed for daytraders. they don't usually deal with minor things like longer than a few days). With good cash prizes for 1st place for anyone that calls a stock from the first of the month till the 18th and is picked on the final trading day of the month. It was fun and free and I almost won a month with WNBD, (I think) I called at .0029, final .0195 was .5% below RGVD on the final day of that night (I made over 4500 profit on WNBD when I finally sold it in a few weeks for .049) Realtime convinced me this was the top when it stalled, went down to .041and back to .049 a couple of days in a row, no .05 and above action. The big sell off came 2 days later and boy did it go to fast, .035 in five minutes and .015 by 9 minutes. It went back to .027 then.035 but could not hold and finally melting down to triple zero. I never would have done it that well without Quotestream streaming.
Downside: Lousy charting that really tells me little facts i may want to know like how it really traded over the last couple of days like price stops and starts during the day. Bloomfield DOWN!! This is a monster problem, you can't get to Quotestream without the Bloomfield site, infrequent but time consuming to get them to respond. The first email that you ever get from one of the principals of the company is the address you will need to get quicker response with a site down problem. Quotestream itself had a three day meltdown because of something major happening but only once did it ever happen that I know of.
Note: This IHUB freezing up the whole computer problem has happened before in the mornings and I quit using it for a while. I quess I should talk to their support people about it first if I can get them to contact me, it may just be an issue with IHUB. I usually just open an extension to the browser that is open already and it may be opening a new browser will solve the problem and I may try that tomorrow to see if that stops all problems but I doubt it.
Anyway you have to decide to take 10-15 days to open a new broker. Penson controls when you get active status by notifying the broker you have an account balance and then a few hours to get signed in to subscribe to Choicetrade and get it up live and running and then understand how to put in info you want and how to use the modules and adjusting a lot of default settings that you don't want displayed, adjusting applies in either case. Joining Bloomfield and subscribing to Quotemstream realtime is easy and should see it available the next day on the Bloomfield site. If not, contact them and tell them you have signed up and paid and it will show as soon as they do something, Paypal does immediate payments without even waiting for your payment to clear. The link is usually accessable in a few minutes, that was my experience with them.
Hope this helps.
I don't post very often, but if it is worthwhile i give an opinion. I searched forever for a good price on level 2s and the best and most reliable I found was Quotemedia streaming from Bloomfield Investment Club. The cost is for Pinksheets only 23.95 including the indice fee or 44.95 for Pinksheets, OTCBB, and Nasdaq including all fees. An ongoing charge to a credit or debit account pays this. I set up a paypal account just for this because it is so easy to cancel a subscription with this. By the way I do not recommend that you buy Bloomfield's stock plays unless you saw good info from elsewhere.
In August I picked up another broker, Choice Trades (Penson Clearing House). All trades are 5.00 flat and they offered Choicestrem(just a name replacing the Quotemedia, because that is what it is) at 44.95. I used a coupon number which I had found on another site when I signed up for the feed (you can't sign up for the feed until the account is fully in operation). If I make 5 trades a month, buys or sells, the price is lowered that month to 30.00 which is the indice fee that everyone must pay unless the broker absorbs it (not ever with any of the inexpensive brokers). I could probably find that coupon# again if anyone is interested. The charge for the real time L-2s is applied to your account
I tried Investors Hub version and yes it is cheaper but personally Quotemedia spoiled me for any service that does not respond immediately to clicks and does not display L-2 in a complete overview of the particular portfolio I was viewing. So I was very disappointed. What broke the straw with this is I could not get L-2 stats for CXAC which I was dealing heavily in. No response from complaints to help fix the problem certainly did not help. But that was when it was first set up and maybe it has improved with experience, but I still hear of it being down often.
Keeping your browser cache clean is important to keep the service working properly for any of these feeds. Streaming is most important because static shots of bid/ask on a runner will not give you the real story of what is going on. I clean my browser and do a disk clean-up once a week on Sundy nights before closing down the computer.
jag
Thanks for that info Street. Seems to move on air today. Missed the early start and by the time I figured out the late temporary profit takers was only a momentary dip it was back up already. I think it is a little too risky to buy now, but I am unsure. Any thoughts on buying in this late?
jag
That has to be somebody watching delayed quotes.
Thank you very much.
jagram
Has anyone found out when the warrants will be issued? My broker knows nothing of course.
jagram
I did neglect to consider the debit card availability to 99% of all checking accounts so you would seem to be right for all intents and purposes. I do not think that an 'intentional kill the stockholders' will happen personally. I have been in for three years and intend a long haul myself.
On an aside I think Mike was too available for a while and got very sick and tired of nitpicking and 'helpful' suggestions from too many people that did not really see what he intended or wanted or could do with available funds, so he clammed up. Just my opinion there.
Good luck to us all.
jagram
Do we have the % of age groups somewhere? I would be interested to see how many are under 17 and not likely to have easy credit card access. Don't you gamble on that charge kicking out a big chunk of users automatically?
jagram
I had to leave a message and told them to leave a message if no answer. The call came at 8:18 CDT. Caller ID gives me:
SORRENTINO BRIA
301-528-4237
The 301 area code is basically Bethesda, Maryland and surrounding towns.
The message was from a man, spoke good English, as in no overseas accent, and no regional dialect either. Anyway, the message was strangely drawn out with hesitations like he was reading or talking to someone else at the same time.
The big surprise was a return call the same day and so late in the day, 9:18 ET.
I left a message at the IR after calling 888-442-5515 and wading through the multi press-this-number choices.
jagram
FYI. Since my broker changed from Penson to Legent Clearing I am learning new things all the time. So this is for any shareholders that recieved the dividend and have Legent for their clearing house. Tradeable shares are normaly held in street name but they will not hold Restricted shares in street name. All certificates were sent to the Trading Agent and reissued in Your name and returned to Legent. They now are holding those certs in your name for you. Since all street name shares are put together in a pool irregardless of ownership, likely for lending/shorting purposes to big customers margin accounts and MMs, this makes sense, since those restricted shares are untradeable until April 29, 2010, to have them separated. I verified the maturity date with Syndication Investor Relations today. My broker gave the name of the stock on the certs as Syndication JTI New but did not know what the JTI meant. Does anyone have further insight on the JTI. I am not trying to fuel any WAGs or off the wall speculation on this, just asking for facts if anyone has concrete knowlege.
jagram
I do not post often but since I happen to follow MrBigz posts I feel obligated to respond to uninformed posters. Your research on this person is sadly lacking in depth and knowledge of your subject. If you check out the Charts, Patterns and Trends board you can find many great chart calls by MrBigz, and some misses. Nobody gets them all right, too many intangibles come into play, but if you start at Bigz' charts and do a little DD to go with it then you make a decision, but it is all your own decision and risk, it is your money after all. On PFMS Bigz is taking a big hit (or has taken it already) just like most of the rest of us. Just read the posts to know this. MrBigz trades by CHART alone and is not a pumper that I have seen in the 6 months or more that I have come to rely on his charts for A STARTING POINT, and have both made and lost money myself on those stocks, but the gains have far outweighed the losses and I will continue to follow his posts as his chart readings are impeccable. Only after further research into the company might I disagree with his assessment, but never his findings in those charts. I certainly have never felt like MrBigz has mislead me in any way.
I never point fingers at people but you are most certainly badly mistaken in your assessment of this person.
jagram
Easy stuff Rhincodon. While every transaction is indeed a buy and a sell, the following system is used to determine the trend and flow.
If someone pays the ask that is a buy because the buyer came up to meet the seller's price.
If a holder is willing to come down to a bid price that is a sell because the seller gave in to a set bidding price below the ask.
If a sale is made in the spread it is undetermined because both buyer and seller compromised so neither held an edge.
Hope that helps.
jagram
Indeed.
jag
Sorry to take so long to respond. Had to go to my doctor for daily treatment.
So as usual I misssed the action, but I see the daily chart tracking the trades. Had a few for sale at .005 just in case. But I am really looking for a lot better than that.
So right. We will see if they become a huge buyer at .008 or so.
Normally I would agree. But it has been NITE every time that lowers the ask. At the same same time I realize that NITE is a popular destination for buys and sells.
Morning Mr Bigz. What is it with NITE? Every time this has started a run over the last 3 weeks they seem to back it down immediately. They either have a huge seller or are short beyond repair.
I really think that SNRS stole all interest from IHGP and IMGW yesterday. Let's hope we can get it back quickly.
jag
More likely it is all the daytraders thaat bought at 2 &3 taking their profit and as usual their money off the table for the weekend. Some will be buying back in on Monday. Hopefully they will be done by 11AM and before it falls below 5.
Looks like I slightly underestimated the number needed to dig out. It is over 270m and still 2MMs left at 1 on the ask.
I have had several of those. I usually just ignore them after a month, most have come around sooner or later. Only GEGP has hung on me for over a year now.
It looks like IMGW is going to require a hundred million or more to dig out of the ones. You have to hope that interest stays up.
Yeah so do I. I think that r/m is rather dubious but my basic DD told me there was no reason not to take a shot with this. The worst I could see is a break even.
According to PR on 3/4/09 STL Graphics is a division of IMGW already. So why a merger?
Did you notice that when SSGI showed up the trading dropped off. Lots of folks won't touch anything they are in.
Hadn't heard myself. I quit reading this board when they decided it was a good place for stock tips.
I don't see any numbers lately so I guess I can post these from today. 1115558
I emailed James, the head honcho? from info on their web site back in February. I basically asked what if anyhing was planned or in the works and if there were any plans to expand or create any kind of revenue for the company. What I received was an auto reply:
Thanks for your e-mail. I am out of the office until Monday, February 8. Please contact Nikki at nikkin@ylfc.org if you need assistance before then. Have a great day!
I did not follw through for some reason, actually expecting a full response to follow. Needless to say no further response was forthcoming. I had been meaning to go back and resend that email but when I looked for it today in sent mail it was gone. I must have deleted old sent mail in April sometime.
I think most everyone wrote this off about the time they found out what the new company was all about and what type of material they wanted to produce. I am pretty sure all expected an oil company and not a clean family entertainment type company. The more the PRs came out the lower it went. Too bad.
Let me know if you make contact.
jag
Good morning Mr. Bigz. Thanks so much for the link you sent.
Any further thoughts/analyses on BZCN for today & tomorrow? I keep hesitating on it because it seems MMs unsure of where to go with it.
jagram
Where do I report that a stock symbol keeps being rejected as a delisted stock when it is a Pinksheet stock? SGLS has a board and will bring up a quote but it refuses to be put on a portfolio monitor on ADVFN.
I think you are right. When the name change and reorganization plan was first PR'ed it sounded very much like a reverse split was coming and halted all momentum. The direct clarification on Tuesday of that not being the plan at all was very much needed.
You will only do that once in your life. If you placed a market buy for 1 million shares all of the lower asks would likely disappear and you would end up paying the higest possible price for the majority, probably in the dollar or two range. Most brokers will not even allow a market buy on an OTC stock.
jag
Indeed. The ask at .0001 was just totally unnecessary. The buying would have come in at .0002 and some momentum would have been created. Now I see there are 3 MMs on ask @ .0001. Terribly disappointing to say the least.
If you noticed we have 2 MMs on bid, at least for now.
jag
I see it Lucy, I buy 8M @ .0001
jag
I have bid .35 & ask .55
Actually with authorized shares of 10 Billion that is not bad.
So far the major sell off that I expected has not materialized. I am surprised, because it does not matter that the claim far exagerates any reality, it is in print and there has been no official response from POWN as usual. The part that states 'has been used to promote the publicly traded stock of POW Entertainment (POWN)' is the laugher to me. Since when has this ever been promoted? You couldn't pry a promotional statement out of POWN with a crowbar. If it had been we would have a share price in the dollars, not the pennies.
jag