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IB, you've committed to more timeliness with typhoon warnings and its great that you're adding an audio alert to the bulletins for those of us not watching TWS every minute. Would you please update the procedures for passing HKFE bulletins on ... changes in margin would seem to be something...

If you trade profitably using price or price and volume (not fundamentals and sentiment) then you are using TA. Technical Analysis = Using Price or Price and Volume movements (and their histories) to determine entries and exits.

Beware of: Anti -Malawares: http://www.comodo.com/boclean/boclean.html I just rebuilt my computer after 3 instant reboots in 2 days after installing that software.

Thanks Red, I trade in Australia so Europe opens around 5pm/6pm. I started day trading on estx50 and bund but I like Asia because at 6pm I can take off for the day for family time. So I'm revving up SPI and SGX for now. Will keep an eye on hsi and see if the swinging dicks leave or...

This seems to be half of the answer: August 13, 2007 MON 13 AUG Stock index futures By Michael Pettis From today's South China Morning Post: The China Securities Regulatory Commission (CSRC) is poised to allow trading in the mainland's first equity-based derivatives -...

When does the mainland contract open (I'd like them to fuck off soonest)? Meantime I'm going to trade sgxnk and spi. Trading europe doesn't appeal.

OK. So, seemingly as a result of this the HSI has gone from perfect to perfect crap. Spreads have gone from interesting to astronomical ( 15pt moves, 27pt slippage etc etc ). I doubt that the size of moves outweighs the risk associated with a disordered market. So, I didn't trade today...

Why no images? No p&l from me but I did have my highest ever slippage on HSI yesterday ... 27 points and I was trading in the direction of the trend.

Then fuck off and stop wasting scarce resources. People like you who waste IB's time piss me off. Fuck off now! Get a broker who wants to hold your hand. Maybe your mummy is available.

Now up over 1000 points since last nights close ... and I was expecting a quiet day.

Its possible I'm making one invalid assumption. Are we talking futures or cash indexes. If its the cash index IB doesn't have volume in the backfill --- and I'm not so sure about the volume that you get live. If its futures then everything should work properly. Volume and Tick...

Its a ninja problem. You need to let them know which versions of TWS and the API you are using because some things have changed a little in the backfill area recently (still a ninja problem because it works fine with Sierra Chart and I've never heard of a "works on some but not others"...

I'd suggest that 100% on intermediate nodes is no problem (because the router simply isn't responding) but less than 100% does introduce the potential for retransmission delays (ie packets being resent = have to wait around while the last one times out as not received and is resent). I don't...

When its too volatile I don't trade it. I use small stops and haven't been motivated enough to modify my strategy for these markets.

Monday's opening gap ... 758 points from Friday's close ... 758 points! Thats about USD5000.00 on one contract.

You can use Sierra Chart on a different PC to the one that has TWS on it. Have a look at the documentation on the sc site or raise the question at the SC forum.

Grow up. Its the fucking internet not your primary school.

If you trade manually then the speeds and response times are effectively the same. Choose the one that has fewer outages. If you have a machine then choose the one with the lower response time (ping) while you are collecting trading data. As long as your data feed doesn't exceed the total...

Osorico, You'd be disappointed if someone didn't reply. So here's my version. Frame: Remember that IBs goal is to be low cost, highly automated and fast. No mention of customer service so adequate is all they're aiming for ... read that as good if you don't need much and disastrous if...

The reason for the flawed logic is clear ... the author is none other than ... drum roll ... but why use his name again.