Recent content by Gregarious

What are you smoking Dragon? I live in the ONLY area in CA that has NOT gone down this year badly this year, the Bay Area. SoCal down, Central CA down, Northern CA (above Bay area) down. Even the Bay area has seen a decrease inthe last 6 months. Stop reading the old news and wake up. And we...

When the "one-directionals" finally gloat, it is time to realize it is probably over. Mymini, glad you are doing well, now is the time to to evalulate your long term goal. Switch to the weekly or monthly view and realize this will not last indefinitely. No dish like everyone else here. I...

IB rocks in trading everything in IRA except for shorting stocks, since it by law cannot have Margin. With Ultrashort ETF's, futures and puts this has never been an issue in my IRA.

I have the same question. But is it possible to create an advisor account with IB so you can trade the same trades with both my IRA and margin account (without having to open two TWS sessions?) In other words, I buy 200 shares of AAPL for instance, and both accounts get the same limit order...

"speed of your hard drive should not be a factor for a trading PC - everything should be running from memory, your hard drive IO utilization should be low enough that it doesnt matter if the drive is 7.2k or 10k --------------------------------------------------------------------------------...

Widescreens are not good since to have them side by side wastes precious desk real estate. If you like long histories in charts it might be ok with 2. Otherwise 2-3 20-24" regular is a good way to go. I use 2 dell 20.1 monitors side by side, and 3 would be nice to fill the desk. Reslution is...

lol, a lcd tv monitor only can do about 1280 by 1024 at best, and that is your issue. Icrease resoltion al you want, but it can only support so much. The salespeople won;t mention this, only "awesome movies!" The best right now is a 46" 1080p Sony with 1900 X 1200 resolution . Even then it will...