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You are trying to apply system traders measures and whats more they are those developed for funds. You are getting objections from people who are willing to assume risk in return for profit. So you're out of step. Lets see if this gets through. I will retime my previous post and maybe it...

TraderHerry, If you like to reward people for their service and you are so disappointed with IB why don't you just take your business to another broker. You talk like a big swinging dick. Prove you are and act on your impulses. Please go to another broker. Slimetrady recommends...

If anyones interested, a bunch of new suggestions have appeared. Some are quite good so I've voted for my favourites. Cheers. :)

LOL. Scotty the pretend trader is back. Its not my role here to help IB, just to label the idiots and help the humble. So now we have the pair on one page, dumber and dumbest. Never as old, as ugly or as useless as you, quarterwit. :) PS. To def, my apologies for dragging you back to...

LOL Slim ... why don't you just fuck off back to the slimy little hole you crawled out of. :p :eek: :p PS. And for the prissy mamma's boys who object to the direct language, you can fuck off too :)

Agreed that this path could well turn lead into gold. It makes for increasingly interesting times.

I think the poll has worked extremely well to date. Thank you very much IB. I am sure you (and we) will reap the rewards of the projects that you are already working on and future projects coming from the poll. Thanks very much for the effectiveness so far. :)

John, I've enjoyed your writings but you may be off on this one. If you look into the statistics of life expectancy and the effects of public health engineering and medicine over the past two centuries you tend to draw a different conclusion. Its like the difference between indicators and...

OK. I have a choice of being a trader who: - makes $150 avg per day consistently (max 175, min 125); or - makes $10,000 avg per day inconsistently (max 20,000, min -10,000) I'm going to have the guts to assume the risk and be the second trader. Its one thing to look at the stats that...

LOL ... yes very funny ... but more seriously re your question. I once managed a business unit that included a support desk for business customers who were spending a bit over $100M a year with us. The biggest issue we faced was managing the support interface so that customers saw a...

Jack, Yes I agree. I just happened to see two occurrences of "go somewhere else" this morning and thought it would back up my previously unsupported assertion that IB ran a risk by not resolving these two issues with data quality. As you will note I don't believe it should be fixed at...

I have previously made the point that because IB data doesnt reliably include the highs and lows of each bar IB risks losing customers to other vendors. I also think that the same applies to issues with backfill like the lack of transaction information (tick charts). Only def has ever...

If it was a "real" ECN then you'd have a large number of diverse market participants competing for orders. If they put a limit order up and you hit it then you get it if you were first. In the IB case you have a large number of retail traders and a small number of backend organisation that...

Malinos, I read some of the posts but not all so may have missed this element. To me the choice would be about my personal information processing and tendency to take dud trades from boredom. I don't know what timeframes you chart to make your decisions although you do suggest your trade...

And the point is proven, the defective should be allowed to go their own way without help from their betters. Cheers Jim. PS. The real reasons that IB stopped answering all the questions are that many of them are stupid, asked by poor souls who can neither understand nor let go, and it...

I've tried every spam filter in creation including baysian filters. The problem with them is that the spam prats keep changing what they do so that the filters "break." The best filter I have found (and now use) is simply to maintain a thorough address book and send all mail from people not...

Also Sierra Chart now has good Market and Volume Profile studies for use with IB and other data feeds. Bolter, who "lead" the Market Profile thread here uses SC TPOs and Volume Profiles.

Isn't diversity grand.

Why not consider expectancy of the bet ? expectancy = ((win% * winsize) - (loss% * losssize)) / losssize So if its a 70% winresult with wins 2x the loss size e = ((0.7 * 2) - (0.3 * 1)) / 1 = 1.1 So for every $1 you bet you expect a return of $1.10 (on top of the original dollar).

IB have introduced a poll for new features. If you are a customer just follow the link below and vote. My personal recommendations of most important things they could do: 1035. Include all highs and lows with each data packet (without impacting the timeliness of IBs data). 1044...