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Or you can just look at it as more liquidity. All is good. Cheers :)

IB ... good.

OK. Someone's got to do the spelling corrections: fucking dip-shit

General recommendation in this situation is to review your trading plan and cut size back until you get into synch again.

As well as: - exercise - social support - sufficient thrills outside of trading you might consider meditation. Recent research has shown that people with chronic pain have a reduction in their brains grey matter at a much higher rate than explained by ageing. Unrelated research has...

Or go completely freeware with something like mwsnap or hoversnap: http://www.snapfiles.com/Freeware/gmm/fwscreen.html

It has been difficult. Gaps driven by the US market then nothing ... I lost money yesterday as well. Better luck today.

Where would George buy?

You'll be able to do it with Sierra Chart soon (might be a couple of months).

The amusing thing about this is that you're behaving like the merchant bankers and predicting. Predict, predict, predict. Build your ego by deciding that there is money in mining but none in wine and food. For most predictors the big one, the ego graitifier, is to predict the end of the...

How many trades per week are you looking at?

Be careful about shorting NZD currently. Just talking to someone who specializes in cycles quite effectively but combines it with fundamentals. Demand for NZ products is at an all time high helped by Australia's drought and economy is booming (apparently; I live in Aus so I'm not really in...

As a trader who doesn't trade options I would ask a different question: Is capturing every market move desirable? In my experience, many traders try to capture too many moves. One of our biggest advantages as traders is being able to choose those opportunities with the highest expected...

The trend is still your friend when it ends - I take losses like any trader. The key is to recognize potential weakness and either get in lighter, accept the potential loss, or wait. Then, when the trend reverses, wait a bit, and then start taking advantage of its friendliness. Re bankers...

It would be better to say June 8 2007 so that no one is confused (IMHO :))

What you should really remember (because a much higher percentage of Kiwi's fly around the world than Americans, say) are 3 rules: Don't fight the trend. Trade with the trend. Repeat Rule One. :)

One important point that people seem to miss: use market orders around news events or in thin markets only if you want a good reaming! Lets get real ... its nice that IB fixed it (if they did, zzzap, send Sal a PM if they haven't) but market orders used unwisely are an invitation for...

Study the big drops --- what percentage of them didn't have a lower high before they got really serious?

The markets usually follow each other. A big US move will drag Asia. Similarly a consistent Asian move will shift Europe and most morning gaps on the US market will follow from a European market move. Globalization in action.

Hmmm ... there must be a couple more than this.