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I'm in the IB chat with Ben-TAC at techncial support. I wrote him a bunch of stuff and have yet to see a reply. Basically, I've noticed over the last week, a process called javaw.exe is taking from 81-99% of my cpu! Making it impossible for me to trade quickly. I'm assuming that process is...

Yeah, stop COPYING my idea! I wrote that in this post and no one replied :P http://www.elitetrader.com/vb/showthread.php?s=&postid=286293#post286293

hey you software vendor out there! do you guys have HISTORICAL intra-day data on stocks that made the highest gain in $ as well as % ? And stocks that loss the most $ and % for each day going back several years? So, for example, on 7/3/02 or any random date, give me the 2 lists: 1) stocks...

Reuters CBOT Probes Big Error in Dow Futures Thursday July 3, 2:10 pm ET By Ros Krasny CHICAGO (Reuters) - The Chicago Board of Trade, the No. 2 U.S. futures exchange, said it is investigating a huge trading error in its mini Dow Jones futures contract (YMU3) on Thursday that briefly...

I dunno, but why IB is using up 88% of my CPU! did anyone see that? And the quotes didn't update for a while... or is this just that we had a CRAZY market today and no one is updating fast enough? hmmm :eek: :confused: misc

hun, And NO, I'm not an English teacher. I trade for a living. OK. Apologies if English is your 3rd language, because a lot of newbies come on here and English is their FIRST language though they write as well it could be their 4th language. hehe. Well, as for your question, why does it...

LOL! FUNNY! And all you hear on this board is all these young traders who want to quit school and trade. Maybe they should learn to spell first. hehe

indahook, I think 99 has a point. I'm a newbie trader and I'm STRUGGLING. Just read my other posts. It would be nice to have a backup plan and be realistic. I know i want to trade. But some does every Joe Schmoe on this board. But that doesn't put the "odds" as 99 puts it in my favor...

how much does he charges? I was looking at his records. they seemed awfully good! Is he for REAL??? hard to say! He must be close to a millionaire by now with his record. anyone know the details??? hmm...

Neal, I like to ask you several questions: 1) What is your rate? 2) Do you know EasyLanguage/RadarScreen? 3) Do you know Wealth-Lab(or can learn it fast)? Those are the 2 main platforms I've been playing around with. But I'm not a superprogrammer like you. I just like to implement a...

I went back on the chart. The worst ONE DAY drop in EFII occurred on June June 6,2000. It dropped from 36 to 22.5. No where did I see a drop from 49 to 13 overnite. But that's still pretty wicked sucky scary! It eventually got down there but NOT in one shot.

guess what?!! Those june 35s calls that I sold at a HUGE LOSS ($6K loss on my small acct) down at 20-30cents. I got them in at 40-45cents. They are up like 2.25-2.40!! WTF?!! That's like over 5x!!! Instead of taking a 50-70% I could be up 500% to over $37K++!!!! NO...

Yeah, I know what you mean. The TWO FOREMOST LESSONS I got out of this were: 1) Money Mgmt - Don't bet too big of size that it will destablize you and put you on the brink of WIPE OUT! I'm still trying to recover from it. 2) Cutting losses FAST! I should have gotten out my ENTIRE position...

OK, that makes a little more sense now. I think exchange members pay something like 50cents each way. So, 2 RT is not bad. Much better than most futures broker out there.

You sold SONS at 29cents? Where did you get it at? 10cents? And you thought to yourself? Wow! I doubled my money? Yeah, that sucks. The bastards who bought from me at 20cents and some at 15cents are laughing all the way to the bank! sucks.

Timing and money mgmt are everything. Yes, I was off by a few days. But had I bet smaller then I could hold longer to my conviction. But then again, if I had SOLD my loser instead of holding over nite I would NOT COMPOUNDED the losses. Then I might have the capital to come back and play it to...

Yep, It's all about money management. If I had on like 30-40contracts instead of 210 contracts I would be able to hold through and still would have more than DOUBLED my $. And the f*ckin' FRUSTRATING thing was that according to my chart reading or whatever, I KNEW KNEW there was going to be a...

Here's the story. One June 10th, I got in an insane amount of calls option contract(210 contracts is crazy for my small account) on QCOM. That was the first mistake. I got in 10contracts at 40cents. And the rest 200 contracts at 45 cents. Then it proceed to go down. I got out half of the...

yeah, you are right. Tradelink. It has been over a month. But I also talke dto Matrix. Yeah, I'm confused. I guess if it's coming out from your FUTURE income streams then it's NOT too bad. I wonder if they take remote traders from teh US to trade the London market? haha.

Standard? Traders shouldn't have to pay for desk fees. That's just smack of outrageous I think...