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Great find, Mark. It's fascinating. eom

Just the right place to have been! Good for you.

What happened to your friend who lost his whole fortune? Does he have a good job? The problem for me was finding a good job; I wasn't trying to find just any job. I never heard of brokerages that don't let you short. All my brokerages let me short. I just couldn't believe that it would...

tao: I did worse than you! I had three types of things that made me rich in the bubble: buy and hold, trading stocks and trading leaps on what I considered solid companies. The first two things were on margin and the options, of course, were not. I didn't provide a safety net of any kind, put...

If you're very new to trading I don't think futures are the place to be learning, honestly. You can lose more money than you put into the buys in futures -- you can lose a lot of money that you don't even have. Please be careful. As for your question, your broker doesn't care at what price...

I've heard from IB about yesterday's fill. As the day went on, I would have had the correct fill, four points higher, but not for several hours. I do think from what they're saying that they will need to give me the four points, but I'll wait for them to figure it out. My other brokers would...

lol. Your book. I have to keep them anyway, because I don't always remember things. I keep everything important, and thus, I have no space! FYI, OHIO has been officially designated the source of the great blackout of 2003.

Yes, but you didn't let the trade play to the primary target. :confused: btw, I'm saving all this pithiness for your book. hehe

I just sold at 9371. +13 Way too early!! Don't sell, Damir!

what symbol do you use for our YM? YMZ03 gets me an odd-looking chart.

Yes, it did. That is, the Dec did! It was way up, well over 9430 and came down.

covered 1/2 at 9364 +15.5

Uh oh. I was trying to place a sell and placed a buy. Have another batch of YM long at 9848.5

long at 9358 YM Dec.

Thanks, Mark. You weren't around all day, either. You mean the IB Forum here, I guess? I'll poke around. Thanks again.

Well, I went and got it and it replaced my old one, but when I launch I still get told there's a new version and do I want to upgrade to it. This time I said "no." I guess I'll call Tech Support in the morning, if that dialog keeps coming back.

Oh. It didn't tell me to go get it. But that makes perfect sense. I have to think a little more. lol I have some good info for us. Maybe everyone knows. People who use IB can only trade our YM during the following hours, EST: 12:15AM-5PM 8:40PM-11:50PM IOW, our trading is closed from...

Kap: I'm so glad you're okay! My sympathy for your losses on 9/11. Cantor Fitzgerald suffered more than most.

TWS has asked me five times today if I want to use their new version and I keep saying yes, but every time I open it again, it asks again.

I try to set a dollar amount or a point amount as a goal for my trades. Like, on stocks, 1 point. So, I start with that goal and then I diddle with it. Sometimes I feel I really need to have cash and I'll take .20 instead of 1, or 1/2, and if things are going well, I'll raise the goal to 1.5...