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I would highly recommend a front-end like 'Buttontrader' for IB. It works a lot better with an IB real account though, they discourage using it with the IB sim account. You can get a six month free trial which allows sim trades while connected to a real IB account. Buttontrader has very...

I know what you mean. Sometimes you can spend all day waiting for the trend to reverse so then you can finally trade it, and it just never happens. Then at the end of the day you look back and see how much could have been made simply by jumping on board the trend for the day. It seems in some...

Good tip - great timing nonetheless. I was poorly anticipating a break-out. I reversed on the basis that if it's not going up it must be going down (admittedly not the most technical reason, but works ok if the r:r is good enough).

Great trade! What made you sell there? I went long there, then reversed at 1.5510, so luckily still got plenty out of it, but didn't consider selling on that up move.

Have you tried starting your laptop in 'safe mode' - which should load up with default graphic settings. Does Vista have 'safe mode' ?

Same here - I was a bit put off by 1.5500 being so close. Always a bit unpredictable around those 'obvious' resistance levels.

Strong resistance at 1.5500 (not surprisingly) edit: missed a digit there!

May Day/Labour Day - same as most of Asia.

Normal cinematic motion does have a certain subtle 'jerkiness' - which is why in video editing packages when they offer the function to convert interlaced footage at 50/60 fields per second to progressive 24 or 25 frame per second they often describe it as giving a 'cinematic feel'. But for...

Both economies are still benefiting from high commodity prices - although for Aus, gold prices seem to be on the decline. The stockmarket indices for both countries appear to be in similar states. Both central banks have kept interest rates the same in their last announcements. So maybe the...

The below thread details Tums going through the steps of building his customised machine: http://elitetrader.com/vb/showthread.php?s=&threadid=118742 The physical steps of putting it together are reasonably straight forward - the components generally come with good enough instructions, and...

I appreciate that you have a fondness for NVS cards, but I think you may be too quick to dismiss more modern alternatives like the Nvidia 8000 series. I currently have two PCs running all Nvidia cards, with combinations of a Geforce 5600 and an NVS 280; and a Geforce 8800 and an NVS 285...

You going to shoot for a few hundred long?

Both USD/JPY and EUR/USD bouncing off the daily pivot and first support with uncanny precision...

You orders either go through TWS, or directly to IB servers via a FIX connection.

Now is this what you would call a 'box' ?

Well naturally it would keep going up as soon as I had submitted my post :)

A very slow Monday so far... seems everyone's still nursing a hangover from Friday's action.

Yeah that's the one... I should learn the lingo better (correctly)