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    How would you trade this

    Interesting.. you would short this? Probably if the trendline breaks?
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    Back End of a Brokerage w/ IB

    PDT == Asinine What they should do is freeze the accounts when you have a drawdown of 25%. That makes more sense to me.
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    How would you trade this

    Cool charts. How do you know the trend will start on tuesday?
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    How would you trade this

    http://quote.prophet.net//applets/javachart/printGif.jsp?id=http://PRUDENCE.prophet.net/TemporaryFiles/JavaCharts/29.1063304432019.print.gif&scope=prophetfinance&host=prophet.net How tight a stop?
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    Back End of a Brokerage w/ IB

    They have never frozen my account before... last time i just had to wait until the 3 trades in 5 days count went down.
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    Anyone from Vancouver, Canada?

    Hey whowah, I'd be up for a beer... anybody else around?
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    NYSE vs TSX

    You should be able too, it depends on IB. I know of people who will convert huge amounts of currency by buying and selling the same stock on the different exchanges. It just depends if IBs system can handle that.
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    NYSE vs TSX

    All stocks on the TSX are in canadian dollars. All interlisted stocks are in USD on the US exchanges. In the past I have seen a HUGE difference in the closing prices (up to 3%), that gap usually disappears at the open the next day. Things to think about: 1. Canadian exchanges are...
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    Automated, unattended Trading

    It should be possible to implement this type of strategy using TWS by itself. ie I determine that i want to be long the stock if it goes above $10.50, the night before I enter a STOP order to buy at 10.50, and two conditional orders, a stop loss at say $9.99 and a limit sell at $11.50 in an...
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    How not to get screwed by Health Insurance Companies..

    If it actually turns out that a procedure can't be done in canada, the healthcare system will pay to send the patient to the US. Personally I take equal care for all over good care for those who can afford it and sub standard care for others. The problem with canadian system is that it needs...
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    How not to get screwed by Health Insurance Companies..

    Canada is awesome for this. Everybody gets the same treatment. If you are too poor to pay the premiums ($40 a month) they will be paid for you. You can get extra coverage to cover other things like ambulance rides, prescriptions etc, and thats probably at most $200 per month, but most...
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    Network Wizards help please...

    First thing is how much data are you trying to transfer? Is it more then 50 mbits/sec? (I doubt it). If you are, looking at upgrading to gigabit ethernet. More then likely the bottleneck is the application that is serving the data, or the application that is receiving it.
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    40yotrader

    i often wonder about 40yo He seemed legit before he started when i talked him via pm.
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    IB Launches Canadian Stocks!

    what are you smoking? obviously you don' t make much money since you are not concerned with the amount of tax you pay.
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    IB Launches Canadian Stocks!

    Do they offer this?
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    Wavx

    Man these small cap tech stocks are really having there day.
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    IB brackets

    This is how you do it with TWS... First enter your limit order to buy. Then on the orders page (not the pending page) Right click on the limit order and select "create bracket order" Enter your stop and your profit target. When the entry is filled, the secondary orders become...
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    Terrorism Futures To Start Trading

    Just obscene really. Just another way to say "Bring it on"
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