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An extradition hearing is scheduled for September. Road trip boys ? Let's go to support Nav !! There is a super over-zealous former US government attorney named Eric Sussman who is all over Nav and obviously scape-goating him in this case....read this B.S...

My feeling: Put enough plot points on a chart and the market is bound to hit one of them. I think I backtested this at one point in time and found them to be of no value. Exactly how are you using them ?

Welcome to the wacky world of IB where reliability takes a back seat to low fees and low costs.

Algo's

and the help of the Fed !

http://www.marketwatch.com/story/the-euro-is-having-its-best-day-in-nearly-2-weeks-2015-07-10 Omigosh, I think this is setting up for the short-of-the-century. Premise: Greece is going to EVENTUALLY default. The only question is WHEN ?

I wish someone would compare the returns of naked put or call selling vs. credit spreads from a profitability standpoint....what would the two equity curves look like ? Surely, the naked strategy would show a steeper ramp-up, but also show some ugly drawdowns.

http://www.marketwatch.com/story/why-99-of-trading-is-pointless-john-bogle-2015-07-30?dist=tbeforebell Come to your own conclusions, but I think Jack is losing touch here. He is always pushing the point about long, long term investing when in fact it's been proven that many traders do well with...

When exactly is his extradition hearing date ?

That's another great idea...and easy to implement. Totally disagree. Spoofers are in the trading battle with bazookas....against "free market" traders with pea shooters. They'll never die off.

Which Emini symbols will be available in beta ?

How is it looking for the release of tick-level emini futures data ? Anxious to get started....

But essentially if you place the limit far away, it gets closer to acting like a stop-market order.

I'd love to talk to Nav some day. Road trip to London anyone ?

I wouldn't be so sure of that. Do the math: If he got in 40 trades a day with 20 winners and a 2:1 profit/loss ratio, we are talking about $175k per day @ 500 contracts. Even if that ratio went down to 1.5:1, that's still in-line with the $10M for the year. In all of my backtesting with algos...

Of course you bring up a good point...I wasn't thinking it through thoroughly (but the CME should be !!). They certainly have the technology and capacity (with all of their cash horde) to maintain records on all accounts with regards to the PROPORTION Of cancels relative to FILLS over time...

What I really meant to say is: penalize EXCESSIVE cancels. That would effectively thwart the spoofers. Example: Each day 100->199 cancels=$20, 200->299 cancels $40, etc. Kill trading for the day if over 1000 cancels. Just trying to level the playing field by enforcing rules that are fair to...

Wait.... so the CME supports STOP-LIMIT orders, but not regular STOP orders (you call STOP-MARKET) ?

re: "I've taken some bad slippage before due to swift moves...." Knowing this, why on earth did you use Stop-Limits instead of just Stops ? If it blows thru your limit, you're hosed for a big loss.

And IB support couldn't figure this out ? Wow....they don't know their own software very well.