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I guess I'm missing something here... Isn't the settling price as of the close on Friday? When OCC (if that's who actually did it) liquidated the option and passed $800 to your account, wasn't the trade CLOSED at that time? How can IB use -Monday's- price for liquidation ??? :confused...

def, you can believe 'those sites', or you can believe your own eyes and tests. the simple fact is, that java+tws IS hugely bloated and EATS cpu resources. all you have to do is run task-manager and check the processes while tws is running. on a 650mhz P3 laptop running win2k, it...

huh.... I would've agreed with that...if the post was dated a year or so ago... :D It really is wildly overpriced, and no, it doesn't have the earnings to justify anything even -close- to this price. The 'average person' going long at 300+ is gonna get his clock cleaned... :p When it...

pullll-eeezee....just get the BACKFILL done. :p :p Forget the damn charting. ALL of us are ALREADY using QT or something else. All I'm looking for is 5-10 days backfill and a RELIABLE tws/quotes. If you feel you absolutely MUST add some kind of 'feature', then fer goddsakes add...

I will have to respectfully disagree with both those notions. A structure of the enormous mass of the US/world economy has tremendous inertia. When a force is applied, it takes considerable time for a change in motion or direction to become apparent to the eye. Nevertheless, from the...

geez....this has actually been a good thread so far! :p :p serene....thoughtful...informed....color me amazed... :D yah, I too wondered about that 4% in 40mins AVERAGE.... perhaps if done with options....but on an -avg- basis.... ??? Man, you'd have to be a clarivoyant picker AND...

:D agreed. that's exactly what I'm seeing as well. hi energy costs are -boolish- ??? like the other poster said... man, I gotta get some of whatever yer smokin'... :p the amount of "speculative" money in the oil market is so small compared to the stock market, that it ain't gonna...

yes, and what exactly is the system? thanks.

bingo. definitely a different slant than the first version... :p and likely true. or at least, it is if you make one more mod... "to make size in this market, in a time period shorter than years...." i have ended up with a split account and split personality :p I have 75%...

ahhh yes, the tired mantra of "growth! growth!".... unfortunately, that flies in face of PHYSICAL REALITY. it is also unwise to invest at the top....and if you look at a 'chart' of 'growth' for the past, say, 200 yrs; one really must conclude that this has been a parabolic "blowoff top"...

geez....I think this is the first busted trade I've heard of where one of 'us' actually -made- money on it... :D out of curiosity, what happens to option trades when a trade on the underlying is busted like that??

you probably won't like this answer but... ....I think you're going to see very poor xmas sales of -any- trinkets. my guess is that $10 chinese knockoff iPods will be about the only thing selling. nearer term; my assessment of the markets tells me there is quite a strong downdraft...

while I can appreciate the part about the $2 tennis shoes... :D ....you're simply quite incorrect in the part quoted above. Our so-called "prosperity" is due to DEBT man...DEBT DEBT DEBT....and ever-more DEBT ! like....about 100 TRILLION worth of DEBT. In other words, we haven't...

you can't be serious. you'd better take a look at the total debt, public and private, of the USA. 100 TRILLION or something on that order? yah mon....that's a big-ass pile o' bills all right... our standard of living has -already- fallen below a dozen other countries in only the past 10...

I have been with IB 2+ years. I have never called support on the phone, so I can't comment there. However, I -have- emailed 'help@ib' a half dozen times in 2 years, and without exception, I received an inaccurate and/or totally useless answer, written in a manner showing a completely...

many thanks for an excellent thread Lefty.

a lot of good posts. midas, I didn't say it wasn't a good game to play....so is daytrading.... :D but the thing about daytrading is making sure your system provides for an out before the end of the day. that is something that most...ahem... 'investors', in RE not only don't have, but...

that might be the clearest explanation of pivots I've ever seen. also, the accompanying charts were excellent....depicting your points very well. thanks.

That makes good sense. However, I believe that that data, or those 'answers', are already present in the price and volume patterns which make up the market's action. My own approach has boiled down to a recognizing and trading a very small number of very high-probability patterns. But...

ok midas, I hear ya, and hope you survive it ok. btw; just saw a new report today from Kali....affordability-index dropped from 20% to 17% in past year... ....and dropped from 18% to 17% in just the past -month- alone. think about the acceleration in the -rate- of decrease that that...