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    We're going to War

    didnt the expert politicians say we won the gulf war? if we won why are we going back so soon and what did we win?
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    Do you tip?

    i hate the tip line on credit card receipts at places you dont tip
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    Do you tip?

    aphex - sucker :) some places expect you to be tipped and automatically report a % to the irs. i think they reported around 7%. thats just wrong - its up to waitress/waiters to report. oh yeah and i tip.. usually 15% but its based on the bottom line after taxes already, just habit. i...
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    measuring bandwidth

    if your trying to measure bandwidth used for your quotes/broker etc. and not available bandwidth of your pipe then - on win2k/nt - open performance monitor , addin bytes received/sec received and bytes sent/sec (from network interface performance object) this will measure all internet and...
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    bracket trader and treasure notes

    thanks dbl - i remembering seeing some posts on IB but couldnt find if it was fixxed or not
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    bracket trader and treasure notes

    anybody have issues using bracket trader to trade 5/10 treasury notes? played with ib demo without issues but just want to see if anybody else has had issues. went into the ini to make BT use 1/64ths and will not use scale or trailing feature. thanks
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    Any guy making money using risk/reward ratio >1?

    if you look at larry williams trades in bonds/es youll see that his average loss is larger than his average win - just eyeing it though - bonds - avg loss looks like around $2500 - avg win around $1200
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    Best Display for Trading?

    was just at best buy today - have rebates on the samsungs 17" & 19" - $399 for 17" and $799 19" after mail in rebate http://www.bestbuy.com/ComputersPeripherals/Monitors/FlatPanel.asp?m=488&cat=497&scat=501
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    Thinking of switching to eSignal

    my experience has been you have to run only 1 instance of the data server - but can have multiple clients attach to it - ie. esignals charts, neotick, etc. doesnt seem to care how man clients attach. clients can only attach from the server the data server is on.
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    Qcharts intraday history

    thanks Tea - ill check it out
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    Say No To Thin E-mini Spread

    ive read something along those lines, not sure where but because hedgers like a bigger basket of stocks in 1 contract to reduce costs - get it in one shot instead having to buy multiple (different) futures
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    Qcharts intraday history

    can someone with quote.com lookup how far back they have ZF futures data. im thinking ill sign up for 1 month just for the data. i called quote.com but they couldnt tell me for this particular future contract. Thanks in advance :D
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    World Wide Futures Data

    esignal has delayed US/Canadian futures add-on package for $10/month - i just signed up a couple days ago
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    ZF ace tick data

    thanks aaron i did a couple tests with the limited data i have, about 25 days of FV and ZF. fv is more erratic and caused a couple more losses. maybe when fv had more volume it would be ok.
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    ZF ace tick data

    Anyone know a source for ZF tick data for last 3-5 years. Can find FV no problem but no ACE stuff. checked- tickdata.com csi.com (think this was it) disktrading.i99.com how much confidence would you give FV data for backtesting to trade ZF? thanks
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    why do we need spreads?

    how i think of it - price is set by limit orders, price movement is caused by marketable orders (limit orders to sell at bid and buy at ask are market orders)
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    Question to trader who really trade?

    i cant help it -- didnt Yoda say this? :)
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    Jokes

    http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/B0000070S1/ref=m_art_li_1/104-7926359-8218310?v=glance&s=music just gota read the reviews and 'customers advice'
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    Losing Internet Connection

    i had problems with esignal, linksys router and DSL, when i was streaming 100-120 symbols i would have connection issues. i have 5 static ips with a linux firewall on 4 and the linksys on the 5th. i switched to going thru the linux firewall and issue went away. ive been told by esignal or...
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    anatomy of a backtest report

    im just paper trading still but -- just looking at the results you have 200k profit with a max intraday drawdown of 25k - thats 100% of starting equity - obviously then 25k is not the account size required and 800% is not the return if say 100k is what is required to trade this system then...
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