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    IB Historical Data via Excel DDE

    Yes I do use the sample spreadsheet. Carefull on the pacing errors if you have many symbols. Look into the documentation for details. They are very frustrating. You may have to add some Sleep() here and there. I believe you do not have access to all the functions in the code so you cannot...
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    IB Historical Data via Excel DDE

    It is unclear to me what you really mean by that. If you give the same name into cell R11 and after (column Page Name) it will load the data one after the other into this page. If you have multiple request the data will be overwritten. If you want to keep all the data what I do is that i send...
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    multiple closing targets in IB?

    Yes. Buy 500 shares @5.10. Place sell limit 100 shares @ 5.25 Place sell limit 100 shares @ 5.35 Place sell limit 100 shares @ 5.45 Place sell limit 100 shares @ 5.55 Place sell limit 100 shares @ 5.65 Just add a new order to this ticker, you can have as many as you wish. You can also...
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    Opening Only's 2010

    Not really. I was dealing with partials manually. Like I would get filled a buy of 80/100 and would close 100 and get short 20 shares in the process. I would just close the 20 shares manually. But you could add another line or a couple lines to close the positions and calculate how many shares...
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    USO and the price of oil

    I believe that they do not hold stocks.
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    USO and the price of oil

    No. Not over the long term. It is a basket of futures on oil. Therefore you have cotango, backwardation, rolldown issues, ... Read the prospectus.
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    What is behind rise in price of oil?

    lol, FED printing money, tensions in the middle east, Greece bailout,...
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    What happened to MOH,HNT,HUM today??

    How about a rumor on chats? Like "some pharma stock is going to have bad earnings..." bla bla bla.
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    Reliable Method to Export Historical Data to Excel

    If you export from MT4 the data is from your broker so it is as reliable as he is. What you see on your graphs is what you get in the data. You can export and then do some Text to column with the CSV files but I don't know how you can do that fast for many files every day. In MT4 you have to...
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    Quote driven second market vs. Third Market

    Problem is when you will take the position in the 3rd market they will know who you are and if you play this game they will understand it quickly and you will lose all respect and relationships and no one will want to deal with you ever.
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    IB – How to contact to go flat when the internet goes down?

    http://individuals.interactivebrokers.com/en/p.php?f=otherFees Other fees, Misc, Telephone orders.
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    Vix is not traceable but... Can I bet it?

    You could also have a portfolio of options on the S&P500 that is hedged for everything except the volatility.
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    Vix is not traceable but... Can I bet it?

    The ETF being a portfolio of futures and cash I guess it performs as good as that if you assume that banks and Hedge funds are doing the arb. And I would bet they do. I think the holdings are available in Bloom and dudes just arb it when it is skewed. So I think the ETF or futures are a similar...
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    Vix is not traceable but... Can I bet it?

    The VXX ETF. Understand what you are doing before betting on it. This ETF uses futures so there is a rolldown. This shit tends to zero long term so no you can't just park money in it waiting for the next 400% pop.
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    Small Stops

    Most important is the profit/risk ratio. So you can have a large stop but only with a large profit target or a system that wins often.
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    Is Fixi a reputable broker? Any opinion?

    If you do a google search with "fixi forex" and nothing shows up you should be concerned!
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    Former Poker player...Where do I start?

    Move to Canada or some European country (Switzerland, Monaco, ...). http://www.pokernewsreport.com/american-poker-pros-move-to-canada-3878 Or talk to Don Bright, here is his brother playing aside your grand grandfather. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OYmUqaW0HDM
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    Prop Futures Trading Firm

    This is the purpose of it all. This is not financial information but rather financial entertainment. I'm just pissing my panties reading all that arguing.
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    Prop Futures Trading Firm

    For stock guys they put 25k and instead of having the regular 4x leverage the prop firm will give them 20x leverage. This is leverage over leverage. What you seem to talk about is deposit 25k trade futures contracts that are levered products (initial and maintenance margin depends on contract)...
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    How much Stock does the Fed own?

    When you hear the fed is supporting the stock market it means that they are doing it with the interest rate. They keep the rates low, it helps consumers to spend, people to get credit and also investors are moving away from fixed income since they know they will pay very low interest rates for a...
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