Pre-market Stock Trading

Questrade is a popular online trading platform for investors managing their own investment accounts. They have announced an expansion of trading hours for U.S. exchange listed securities starting at 4:00 a.m. ET.

Note that not all U.S. exchange listed securities are available for the 4:00 a.m. trading time.

Order Set Up

Use GTEM in the set up of the buy or sell. It stands for Good Till Extended Mark.

GTEM orders placed after 8pm ET

GTEM orders placed after 8pm will be queued to activate at 4am for pre-market trading on the following routes: AUTO, NASDAQ, ARCA, BATS, and EDGX (AUTO is the platform default, so if you don’t specify a route it will be set to AUTO and activated at 4am).

GTEM orders placed after 8pm ET with EDGA, NYSE and MNGD routes

If you specify EDGA, NYSE or MNGD as your order route in your order entry, these routes do not support 4am trading so will be queued to activate at 7am.

Any GTEM order that activates at 4am ET or 7am ET (including those placed the previous night, after 8pm ET) or is placed during the normal trading session (9:30am - 4:00pm ET) will remain active until 8pm ET on the same trading day. If the order has not been filled by 8pm ET, it will be cancelled.

Crave Investor Execution Tips

When placing any order always check the order parameters, not the least of which is the order type. Depending on your device and your browser, if you change views to another tab, your order parameter may have changed.

In order to set your pricing, on any kind of limit order, compare the bid and ask provided by the trading platform with stockcharts.com. It's possible entering your order at the better price from either source may yield better pricing.

As Mr. Spock said, "Invest well and prosper"!

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The Best Stock Charts

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Ever get lost on a road trip because you thought you didn't need a map? Well "here's something, here's something", a map for the stock market!

What exactly does a map in the stock market look like? It's a (price) chart and charts are not only how you see the road the market has taken but they provide great insights on where it is going next.

There are hundreds of websites providing free and premium services but in our experience there is one that stands out. Stockcharts.com wins the Cup! Other websites charts just don't have the clarity.

To get started with stockcharts.com make some modifications to their default chart settings. Once you have the settings established reload (by clicking permalink just under the chart) and reload with link. Then bookmark the saved settings so it is available permanently on your device. Use the settings set up step by step shown below.

Stockcharts settings

Go to stockcharts.com:

The website will present a free trial to a subscription. You may choose that if you wish, or, click on charts & tools in the main menu - sharp charts. Now you're ready to alter chart settings for a more user friendly experience.

Enter a market average symbol in the stockcharts home page. Try the Nasdaq as it is the most representative equity market average, but you decide. The symbol is $compq for the Nasdaq in stockcharts. For the Canadian market you can use $tsx.

Click Go.

Under the chart make the following modifications.

1. Scroll down to Indicators and click Clear All - Ok.

2. Under Overlays click Clear All - Ok.

One more step. Scroll down under the chart again to the first section called Chart Attributes. Here are the changes to make. For each parameter open it by clicking on the arrow.

Type - HLC bars

Volume - Separate

Color scheme - Murphy. The page will reload after you set the color scheme).

Save it!

Now you click on permalink which is right under the chart. When the window opens click reload with link and bookmark that page in your internet browser. This sets you up easily for efficient review.

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Permalink is directly under the chart.

In chrome, the star is in the URL (website address bar) to the right.

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