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    Irresponsible IB

    Bruce, I will PM def to be the 3rd one.
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    Dumb luck trade stories

    My story happened yesterday. In last 15 minutes before market close, I saw SNCR was dropping fast from 39.00 to 35.00, without knowing it would report earning after hour, I kept buying it until I used up all my buying power. When market closed, I was in a loss of $10K+ with a larger than usual...
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    Quotes for Chinese Markets

    You can get delayed quote from Yahoo! Finance or Finance.google.com. For real-time quote, if you can read Chinese, you can go to any Chinese broker and download free charting software which can fetch real-time quote from server free of charge. The software I am using is downloaded from...
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    IB Currency Conversion

    IB provide two entries for each currency pair, like "JPY.USD cash" and "USD.JPY cash". When you buy USD.JPY, your transaction will be in your USD portfolio like what you saw. Instead, you can sell short "JPY.USD cash" and it will put the JPY conversion in a separate line in "Account -> Market...
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    Trader P/L 2005

    wvombaur: 1-2% daily return is pretty good rate to me. Looks I have a long way to go before I reach there. Since 3/1, I lost in 27 days and won in 86 days. My problem is that my average winner is 350, but average loss is 650. Now I am working on how to prevent those big loss days. Cheers,
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    Trader P/L 2005

    I am a new comer here and have browsed the thread for a while. Thanks for DT to start this wonderful thread. Learned a lot from it. From the PnL posts, I found the daily profit is ranged from 100 to 15,000, even 88,000 in one day. I am wondering if you guys can share your return rate...
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