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Mike: I use Drive Image with an external hard drive (usb). When the primary drive goes down (never has), you can insert a hew hard drive, boot through a drive image cd when "walks" you through restoring the image from the USB drive to the new hard drive. The life of hard drives is about 50...

The XO is the cash index where the er2 is the futures symbol

You might consider using an external 2 1/2 inch hard drive as a backup since there is no power supply needed when used through the USB port. Drive Image 7 will both copy or image the hard drive.

DVD's are exposed to the human element (scratched, etc). Hard drives are really much more reliable. I have used Drive Image for 4 years without a problem.

Kazumi: Why not post a graph showing the trades for one month?

Current clock is 1.8. AMD has clocks speeds up to 2.8 for the 939 motherboard. Will have to wait and see. Gotta help some.

The processor is also 50% greater. If this doesn't work, the 939 board allows dual core processors, but they are alot more.

yes, I have a similar problem, cpu can't keep up with market quotes,ie, Tradestation can't keep up with IB . Looking for arrival of amd 64 939 motherboard and cpu. Now using amd 2400 on Socket A. Alot of ticks lately :)

Riskarb: I show a top on er2 today on June issue of about 729.5 How did you sell futures at 739? Trying to follow the executions closely. Thank.

Tradestation 2000i also works with IB data and this has been my choice.

The eyes in your head are likely the best solution. You just have to act!:D

Riskarb: On the trade on the 19th, the cost was a credit of 1.7 x 50 or $8.500 total. If the market continued down, when would you have gotten out or just hold on for a later reversal. This was a one way bet and both sides would have been going in the red. Also, I saw the option page on...

No, the $1.70 credit and the 5.50 debit are combo-values, not fills on the individual options. Check the time and sales for the approx fills. I fill through an API and a lmt-expo spreadsheet which quotes spread/combo matrices. I believe the put was 16.00 vs 14.30 call on the opening trade... but...

Riskarb: Sold the long reversal at $3.80 debit, gain of $5.50 on 50. Gain of $27,425 ----------------------- As an accountant by training, I feel I walked into Enron....just kidding, but help me understand your trade on the 19th. You sold 50 puts on sp for 5.50 or $27,425...

Riskarb: Since you don't follow M/A or graphs, what indicators are you using to forecast an upturning bounce? Intuitively and graphically, I would agree the sell off is overdone. However, you likely are using specific mathmatical indicators.

Riskarb: Thanks for the reply. Not surprised of the math major. Question: It seems this option business or arbitration is primarily to protect an investment (position), similar to insurance. What return on capital annually do you anticipate from the options as a use of capital in itself? Or...

The phrase likely came from turn of the century husksters selling to ill informed pioneers and poor farmers cures and lotions that were an exotic fabrication:D

CSSCOTT, your experiences are surely in the very lsmall minority and likely due to your own computer or local servers. As a long time IB customer, the reliability is superb.

I don't think it would be difficult to program in Tradestation Easy Language. However, with all the nuances of the market, visual methods can be developed also.

Riskarb: Interesting "foreign" world for me. What is your formal education and work background where you absorbed all these strategies? Are you self-employed? Fasinating high finance to a plain futures trader. I'm sure the majority have a million questions.