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also down here. from china svr

My java is 1.6.0_2 No, i have not contacted customer service. i have not found them to be responsive in the past, so i don't bother. tx anyway, svr

build 879.8 svr

hello, wondering if any of you folks are having the same problems as me - open positions some times showing up, some times not. when placing the order - the estimated margin completely wrong (by a magnitude of a few times), profit / loss row sometimes showing up, some times not? tx, svr

hi, i am a us citizen living in china (now 5th year). china has a lot of growth ahead of it. the market may correct, but its nowhere near where japan was 15 years ago. superficially, it may look as though the chinese govt. controls a lot of things, but chinese society is far more...

Hi, Thanks for the replies. Further question: Is it possible to form a company that trades futures with me as an employee and the company to pay me? SVR

Hi, I am a US citizen living in China. I want to minimize the tax on futures trading profits. Because I live outside the US, I am exempt up to 80k. Is it possible to distribute the current year profit to prior years. I think this can be done for the future years, but not sure about the...

I am afraid Lakshmi Mittal is two words :) :) svrart

mastering intuition not delusion

i am afraid england is a has been. my own sis in law is british but that doesnt change the facts. most brits i meet are drunks and lost in their own imaginary little worlds. i am a foreign teacher working in a chinese university, and the most incompetent are the brits. one of them gets so...

hi, my limit orders went thru, but my stops did not. svr

yes. if its competitive it gets filled right away. otherwise it gets submitted and when the limits or stops are hit, they are executed. svr

hi, i am getting an error that my order will be submitted after 9:30 EST (for example) but the order gets submitted anyway. i think this is just another bug in their TWS. this has happened for the last few trading days. anyone else with this experience or can shed some light on this? svrart

this wont happen for a very simple reason. if i were the owner i would be interested in quantity of postings not quality, for that's what sells. the markets by their nature chew and spit out newbies and newbies are the ones most interested in "discussing". same logic applies to why there...

hi, during regular trading hours, the spread is tighter. i trade these fairly regularly but my holding period if successful is in the months, so the spread is not of much consequence. sometimes if the market appears bad i will dump it off-hours regardless of the spread. svr

hi, i am a us citizen living in china. i have had no problems whatsoever with ib or other brokerages. svr

hi, i am having the same ? for quotes and no menu on top problem. allow me to make a prediction: their user agreement not withstanding, ib is going to get its ass sued / fined / penalized and they are going to clean up their act. their spitting out untested versions is now getting to the...

now okay for me. svrart

i am not able to login either. svr

no, i did not subscribe to the marketdata. i think that answers my question. thanks all, svr