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    Trading while trying to lose weight on Atkins

    You can subtract carbs that are not digested (fiber), or are digested very slowly (maltitol in sugar-free chocolate). Anyway, its good to be eating more fiber, so you don't want your low-carb diet to be limiting that.
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    Trading while trying to lose weight on Atkins

    You guys are making this too complicated! :) Just keep your carb/protein ratio below 2:1, but not less than 1:1, keep your total calorie count reasonable for your height and build, and then, within these limits, eat whatever stuff you think will have added health benefits. That will produce...
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    IB disconnected many times

    If IB expects us to be able to use their system to trade at high rates in short time frames, they will not be able to get away with several MINUTES of downtime whenever their main ISP goes down!
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    Trading while trying to lose weight on Atkins

    For the benefit of those trying to sort this stuff out, note that the articles recently posted here by FPC are very misleading, and contain serious errors of fact: "The only low-carbohydrate sources of protein are meat and meat products. Plant sources of protein typically come packaged with...
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    Trading while trying to lose weight on Atkins

    One huge exception: Fructose (the simple sugar in fruit and soft drinks) has a very low glycemic index (is metabolized slowly). However, consuming lots of fructose will make you fat just like other carbs. Our chimp-like ancestors were apparently adapted to eating lots of fruit when it became...
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    Stop limits on GLOBEX

    Thanks. That makes sense, and I'm hoping they do it that way. :)
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    Stop limits on GLOBEX

    Archangel, are you sure the stop limits on Globex are triggered by bid/ask and not last trade price? You're probably right, but last I looked the site referred to trade price as trigger. Do you have a link to some documentation that supports use of bid/ask?
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    IB quote speed issues...today especially

    "I only know that there was a tremendous surge in volume/quotes and that this caused a problem with Globex which in turn caused a problem with one of our ticker programs" The surge was only moderate compared to other fed announcements in recent past, and the problem was not with Globex since...
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