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reformat your disk install windows XP pro All your problems will be resolved.

I'm not certain what your definition of edge is but mine (and most short term traders') edge is recognizing a pattern of price volume behaviour that leads to profitable moves and then, after testing its historical validity, trading it with entry, stop and exit rules.

My round trip is 170ms still. The contract finishes on the day before the last business day of the contract month. Volume stays with that contract until the morning of closure. In the afternoon the day before closure (Monday) Feb will almost certainly still be slightly stronger. So I...

It will be fine ... same as starting with a new drive. Format and install which will have the bonus of skipping the extra dell stuff.

Never underestimate the power of luck (and survivorship bias) :cool:

HSI is the dogs bollocks. It rocks!

Why put Vista on a PC. It is a downgrade (high res videos don't play as well as on XP). Takes more memory. Likely to run slower. Has all the first generation bugs. etc etc. Should I need another PC I will put XP on it again.

Ask IB about the ticks and let us know. Its more normal for a tick not to show on IB (if its within a 200ms bunching interval and isn't the last price) but thats fixed on the backfill because backfill represents all the prices. I'm looking forward to the 5 second "true prices & volume" bar...

To clean the drive you need to use a program like eraser first.

Never. TWS 866.5 standalone. Java 1.6.

I'm using 866.5 I am looking at a USD HKD position. I right click on it and it gives me the option to adjust position and cost. If I set it to zero it goes to zero and stops recording a position when I try to exit. Similarly I can take it back with a position size and cost. Then it...

If the writer is Mark Douglas (and I think it is) he's not concerned about ego (a misunderstood and maligned beast) but simply about our beliefs and our conditioned responses (primarily the former). I think that he would say that if ES hadn't received a terminating signal on his edge then to...

You just open the pair (USD/EUR or EUR/USD) in cash that you want and you buy or sell an amount sufficient to cover your margin needs. In your account your euro will decline and your usd will increase. Its permanent until you convert the money back.

Download Firefox. Its mozilla based and all the community development has gone into it. Firefox 2 is a really nice product.

Although if your question is really hard or you are really stupid you won't enjoy the customer service all that much. Most people never have to call customer service of course (it probably all on the web).

IB is fine for swing traders too. And you can swing overseas stocks and futures you might not have access to with other brokers. The only issue is that if your monthly commissions are really low you end up with a $10 charge for access to all the US market data. So how important is the $10?

Interesting question ... if the cache is large and its not set to autorefresh such objects every restart or every X days then it might not. But maybe it does every time ... my browser related TWS directory has very little in it.

I didn't realise u were using the browser version ... in which case thats right, they do. But standalone doesn't ... a much better solution.

Mine doesn't ... I've got version 866.5 ... what version are you running? Also what version of java and the api?

Yes, agreed, Lescor's and AustinP's posts are spot on in recognizing the problem and the level of the problem. The issue of trading as a gambling addiction is also important. rasl, thank you for sharing what you have gone through. Fortunately the internet is pretty anonymous so that must...