That's one of my perks in my company. I am allowed to do this and no problems at all.
I am also issued company 3g/4g cards to be used at home or anywhere else for personal and work related stuff.

Haha bone gor interested to play USA also ah? Me trade with my wife account, using etrade, it has 15min lag

Unless you're not using a live account, you should NOT get a 15mins delay quotes even with slow Internet speed.
Otherwise, if it is really Internet issue, I mean web browsing and watching YouTube will be 15mis lag too. Right?
Gosh... even email can travel faster than 15 mins nowadays in around the world.

Are you sure you got live eTrade account?

i'm using itrade.
i'm not sure how many minutes late, but the new platform improves a lot on foreign market's delay. It's seems now less than 15 mins late, looks more like 15 seconds late....not very sure though. However, on the buy/sell box at lower left corner when you click on the stock, the buy/sell price seems less delay....probably just 1 second or so delay only. However, we can only see 1st buy/sell price, nothing more than that over there.

danmooncake
itrade (from cimb) is using a "cheaper subscription for foreign market feed", so it is not real-time.

however, i wish a big bear attack since i only able to buy my 1st batch. I wish to buy my 2nd batch at lower price, maybe 450?....but also need RM to be strong since i'm using itrade and it grabs current exchange rate. So it's kind of forex+stock 2-in-1 trade there, complicated. RM has been volatile lately, easily 5% difference in few days time.

This post has been edited by yok70: Oct 13 2013, 04:39 AM

No it is not a live Account, it is created for her by her company as she got shares option, so I use it to trade other e'er stock also. To see live I go other website to see

Me too as I buy 1st batch at 500, wish to top up more but recently price stagnant at ard 485

I see.. you don't really have access to ETrade, but iTrade (thru CIMB). For a brief moment, I thought it was the US broker ETrade.

Yes, in this case, iTrade is just a local platform for local user but they may not get live quotes from US stock exchanges directly.
That's why you got a delay data feed like 15 mins (just like Yahoo or Bloomberg).

If you wish to see real-time chart, just have to sign up for US based brokers (like OptionExpress, ScottTrade, TDA Ameritrade, MBTrading, etc)

At one time when I was KL, I was able to see near real time quotes too on my mobile phone (using the ThinkorSwim app) on local
prepaid 3G card. Therefore, Internet (slight) delay isn't a problem even in Malaysia.

It is just that your local broker isn't getting real live data but delay quotes from another 3rd party. That's means your (buy/sell) order most likely goes thru another third party exchange. You better not put in any Market order. Limit order must be used otherwise in volatile market can be dangerous for getting unwanted price executed.

judging by the way market trend goes, i am planning to short the dows tmr. hope to gain 150+ points?

Psst..Take a look at DOG or SDOW. It tracks 2x/3x bear move for Dow.

This post has been edited by danmooncake: Oct 14 2013, 12:08 AM

Hmm....
So in conclusion, you mean Cimb iTrade is 15 seconds delay and hence not real time enough? Or there are delay for more than 15 seconds?

If the delay is 15 minutes, I think iTrade is not suitable for day trading at all for foreign market like US.

day trade definitely not suitable.
you should open account with US brokers for real time feed.

This post has been edited by yok70: Oct 14 2013, 04:30 AM

Its Columbus Day. dows takes a breather tonight. i will need patience waiting for tmr. looking good for ah bear.

AFAIK, Market not close on Columbus Day..

We need more bears to take it down..asap! Starts with Futures first.

This post has been edited by danmooncake: Oct 14 2013, 09:24 AM

like soros once said in 1998 ... 'see you at 15k' ?? again and again?

Market still holding up pretty good despite some sell off in futures and earlier.
The losses were pared...

very bull....better be careful to play bear now....

yes, indeed..

This is last chance for bears to take control otherwise no more chance if there is resolution coming from Washington.

Superbull coming since deadline approaching ?

This post has been edited by SKY 1809: Oct 15 2013, 11:13 AM