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This is a journal, not about trading, but about me, Huios, becoming a trader. I chose to do it online to make me more accountable to it (I hate journaling) , and to allow others to give constructive criticisms. Background… I first started trading about 5 years ago. Opened a small...

...and if your coming from the north,(Durham/Chapel Hill) obviously you will take 40 east, take the same exit and follow the above directions. I actually live in Morrisville, which is a bedroom community of the Raleigh/Durham area. Ed (aka Huios)

Light! What light! Hey, is that a bag over my head? :D

bronks, like sean jaun mentioned, you have three losses for $1980, which is a big chunk of your account equity. And as any professional trader will tell you, the name of the game is preserving your capital. Question to ask yourself, what was I thinking that didn't allow me to take quick...

Jones, it's not about getting out of an IB or anyone elses trade, it is about offsetting your order. If your primary software goes down, and you have 5 short esm2 contracts on with a rising market, you use your secondary broker to place 5 long contracts to off set your losses, instead of hoping...

Cash Next game on Sun. Not a big fan, but can't help hearing about it!!! That was an exciting series with the big win in at the end, but onto the Maple Leafs. HoooHaaaaa

NorthShore Good Idea. One thread is better than 50 "Any traders from ..." threads. Raleigh/Durham, NC

I had the same problem getting into the chat because of a Java option that I enabled while playing with the IB demo. BSAM helped me with this: Open a browser>click Tools>internet options>advanced tab>scroll down to about the middle>UNCHECK Java (Sun). This did not appear to effect...

My parents made their own wine when I was a kid. Rose, grape, apple, plum, strawberry, raspberry, etc, etc. The worst was dandelion. That stuff was so dry, it would make your teeth grow!!! Most of it is still in the cellar. We broke open a bottle of mixed berry (?) last X-Mas, and the stuff...

My wife bought it for me for Christmas. Fun game with a group of people. The faster, louder, and quicker you are, the better.

The signature says it all. (formerly EdBartako, but that was to unoriginal, besides, graduated from dialup to cable, therefore, new user name!!):D

Another good source of info on money management is Van Tharp's book, Trade your way to Financial Freedom (hope the hyperlink worked out). You can get it used at Amazon. The log is great, keep up the good work.

TriPack It first happened to me when I was playing with the TWS demo on the IB site. They use a Java plugin to enable the demo. It asks to enable just this time or all the time, I think I pressed the "all the time button" last week, and hence forth, locking me out of the chat room.

thanks FX and BSAM, got it all working

Thanks Vivanka. Any thoughts on the ET chatroom problem?

I just downloaded the TWS standalone software and am running a charting program fed by eSignal. Will I have any problems running zonealarm? I read in the recent past about conflicts with IB and zonealarm (ZA) due to the Java (what ever that means) so I uninstalled ZA, (before installing TWS)...

Thanks Fleance and Stock. I trade from only one PC, so I'll stick with the standalone. Years ago I used AOL, and would hate it when they would "automatically upgrade" without any consent. Thanks again.

I didn't want to start another thread, so I'll ask my question here. Which IB platform is the most stable, the browser or standalone? I run a P2 500 chip with 256 mem and a 10Gig disk that is mostly empty. I also use the free-be Zone Alarm firewall. I intend to trade ES only, with a...