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Looks like you nailed it Kommy! The Surf Report is now dust in the wind... I close my eyes, only for a moment, and the moment's gone All my dreams, pass before my eyes, a curiosity Dust in the wind, all they are is dust in the wind. Same old song, just a drop of water in an endless...

Sigh. Here we go again... :( Any idea where Dave's journal went? I thought the guy was interesting.

I'm just wondering where the oft-mentioned, before last year that is, "Trading Goddess" is? The same TG that saved his fund and from all accounts is the REAL trader in the family. Judging from his flirting, and bimbos that "think he is so sexy" and "want to go pimpin' with him," (barf) I...

Wasn't that guy in Liar's poker?

Wow, that was quick! They can delete my post ribbing "Scientist", but they allow "IB TWS Programmers are Idiots?" Is Sci-boy an advertiser now? Gotta luv ET!!! :p

You get pacing violations when you try to send in API option orders faster than about every two seconds. Haven't seen the message on anything else.

Go with the biggest. Go with the best. Go with the cheapest. Go with the most markets. Yep. It can only be Interactive. All the rest are also-rans. IB sometimes has problems, as do all brokers, but they fix 'em fast and then...see above...

Agree with rmp. I *only* made about 5,000 automated stock and option trades thru IB last 12 months, but my down time was very low also. Yes these problems are aggravating, but are there ANY mostly electronic brokers with better up time? Not saying there aren't any, there probably are, but...

Heh. CNBC needs to show that Mr Market "squirrel" picture that floats around here, when they mention his name! :p Go Mr Market! He's a total dweeb, but never has he posted a mean word to anybody that I've seen. Pretty rare around here...

Memo to Mark Haynes: It's not an "Attack on shortsellers", it's an "Attack on market manipulation via counterfeit shares and coordinated complicit media". The "Attack on shortsellers" bs is from jerks like Herb and Cramer. Try not to be such a schmuck, won't ya? thnks

IB is working fine now (US). Came right up and all my pages are back. Wut's all da fuss? :D (yeah I know, it sux when they are down. costs people money...lucky for me I only need it Mon-Fri...) good luck to all

Uh oh. I checked my autotrade log, and there are a bunch of disconnects logged in now. It's okay now, but it definitely got me too. :( Interactive Brokers System Status Updated: 2006/04/21 11:21:33 EST Refreshed: 13:28 EST (Next Refresh: 60 seconds) System Availability...

Working fine here (US). No disconnects or order problems so far.

Lou: "What's the name of that Chinese guy at the White House?" Bud: "Hu." Lou: "The guy talking to Bush?" Bud: "Hu." Lou: "You know, the President of China?" Bud: "You are talking about Hu." Lou: [frustration starting to show] "THAT'S what I want to KNOW!" Bud: "Hu is the...

I haven't seen anything better than just building it yourself in Excel. It can do everything you need, down to the nth detail, and the price is right. You can probably get a free copy of an older version. Charts, stats, reports, tax-like layouts, whatever...Excel can do it. Yes, it takes...

It's not worth ignoring it. Pay it. Why, if your broker doesn't report it? Because it IS income and there is an increasing chance of an audit. The IRS let a lot of audits slide, but not anymore. And it may be stacked against traders anyway. For example, my broker reported that I had $4...

LOL Fortunately, the bulk of the clueless knobs here at ET seem to be relegated to the steaming pile of pompous "Erudite A-Wipes" left by the side of the road. Live long and prosper, Guildy, yobbies and trailer trash! :p

realistically, conservatively and based on personal experience, IMHO a retail trader with a good broker like IB should be able to make 20-30% *most* years.

+30% right now. Hope you are still long! :cool:

My stock/option autotrade - order handler system has been running from my home every market day, using IB's TWS-API, for almost 4 years. I run it on a 5 year old Sony Vaio/XP. I haven't had more than a couple outages in all that time, even using shiitey satellite ISP. No need to run on...