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Here's where I'm at now. I use the 3 bucket system. The trading portion of my portfolio is the smallest first bucket and it's in my Roth and one of my IRAs. I skim some, but not all, profits off and buy income producing positions which I consider Bucket 2, then skim off the income into my...

It turns out there are "precautionary settings" at IB, presumably to protect the great unwashed from themselves. jeez. My broker was "helping" me and it only cost me $1000. Thanks guys!

Thanks for the help. I'll see what they have to say, if they ever bother to respond. My guess is there's some glitch somewhere.

No a maximum. "....order exceeds size limit of 500."

Thanks for the response. I did attempt to buy TVIX over 2 hours ago and was told by IB there was a 500 share limit.

Is there a limit on the number of TVIX shares you can buy? Thx

I am careful about stops, i.e. I don't like to set them at all, for fear someone will see them and take them out for me. Today I was busy painting my house and didn't want to be looking at my monitor all afternoon. I set a couple of pretty tight stops, not where they wouldn't be hit, it was OK...

Seek precision; expect errors.

LOL !!

"Bring me the Blue Pages"

Thanks to everyone who responded. I'm still trying to get into the ACD mindset and those comments helped.

I've been lurking and haven't even gotten halfway thru this thread yet. I am studying MF's book again and trying to figure some things out. I suspect you've already covered this or maybe it's just a stupid question. Point me toward the answer and I'll try to learn it, thanks. I'm looking...

Uh, yeah. The bastards wouldn't touch a stock with a P/E > 30. One of my favorite quotes from the club, "It's already at a 52-week high, how much higher can it go?" This was ESRX, up 500% since then. They held LU and CSCO through the 2000-02 bear. At one meeting someone proclaimed PFE to be...

Thanks for the help, those are really good websites that I'll use in the future. I should clarify. I'm looking for the number of stocks in the Russell 2000 that made 52-week Highs today and the number that made 52-week Lows today. I want to track that on a daily basis. I'd like to have...

I've searched until I'm blue in the face. Does anyone know where I can find Russell 2000 New High / New Low data? Either the historical raw data, the daily data, or some chart showing the index of NH-NL ? I have software and can scan for it intraday and EOD, and can write code to get what I...

None. I have two computers. One does email and daily and ordinary stuff. It is "protected" by McAfee and has constant problems. The other one is for trading only. I access two brokers on this computer and two subscription services, absolutely no email, no IE (I use Firefox), no Adobe, and...

The power of ET. I went to my local library online to reserve a copy and I'm already waiting for 8-10 weeks.

This has been going on for 20 years. I've seen several jobs advertised which required more experience in a software language than the number of years it's even existed. My guess is that the company then whines to the govt that it can't get experienced workers and we need more H1Bs.

What I did years ago was keep refinancing for a lower interest rate and shorter mortgage term. My payments increased slightly each time I did this, as did my income. I also got a bi-weekly mortgage. In short order, my house was paid off in 9 years. I retired a couple years later and it's...

While this is a good idea, I prefer to annotate my mistakes, analyze them, and then put them away. If I look at anything more than a couple of times, it's my past successes, not failures.