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    Best deal on Dell monitor?

    Try here. May not be the best but I think it's about 33% off plus a bit more. http://www.deals2deal.com/
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    Interactive Brokers Order Placement vs. Pit Trading

    As I understand it, Interactive Brokers trades only electronically traded commodities/futures, it does not do anything pit traded. Jack
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    Finding programmers for Grey or Black Boxes

    I haven't been involved for years but it seems to me you can load/run the DLL in memory, capture the memory, and then reverse engineer using specialized programs. Years ago you could do this with the CP/M and DOS debuggers. I can't believe the state-of-the-art has not kept up. You can only...
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    Black box trading FX

    I'm not a FOREX trader. If I were evaluating a black box system ( I assume it is a system as opposed to discretionary) such as you describe I would get both FOREX feeds running side-by-side, capture them, and do a comparison. Do the prices track? In other markets there is only one best...
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    Tradestation, Wealthlab and other such software

    Are you looking for a trading platform, an analysis platform, or a combination package? What does your client want to do - directly execute orders placed manually from the platform, place orders through a broker, allow the platform to automatically trade? Does your client care about being...
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    IB Options Commision

    There is only a fee if you do not trade and just enter and cancel. Your actual cancel charge can go from zero to a bunch depending on what you do on any given day. Cancelling an order costs $1.20 per order no matter how many contracts are on the order. Credit against the cancel fee is...
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    Why is selling a covered call identical to selling a put?

    I assume you are referring to the premium of the puts and calls, not the strikes. If you are a mutual fund with a large position in a slowly moving stock you sell calls against the position. Suppose the stock is at 100. You sell the 105 call which is three months out for $1.00. The stock...
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    What can I expect from my trading system?

    The magazine referenced is SFO - the Official Journal for Personal Investing in Stocks, Futures, and Options www.sfomag.com It is, in my opinion, normally an insipid magazine with lots of fluff and little substance. However, in the last month or two they have produced some fairly decent...
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    The last best-fit parabolic

    The code is AmiBroker's "AmiBroker Formula Language" (AFL). You can go to the AmiBroker web site (www.amibroker.com) and download the reference manual for the system at no charge. It's a 3 meg PDF file. The entire manual is about 700 pages of which about 300 is the AFL reference.
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    Power supply question

    Most notebook power supplies work from 100 volts to 240 volts, 50 to 60 Hertz (cycles). Take a look at yours and see if there isn't a label with the specs on it. What you may need is an adapter to convert the US style plug (flat blades) to a european style plug (round prongs). Should be...
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    New IB Features

    Realize this doesn't quite fit the thread but - I thought that the DSL capability provided by the phone companies connected to their routers in the Central Office and then into the Internet backbone system. I also thought that the DSL connection went directly back to the Central Office over...
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    Does anyone have experience with Black Boxes?

    Are we defining black boxes as " automated systems" or "undisclosed" systems purchased from a developer?
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    Average True Range

    The thread is entitled " Average True Range" Thus, "ATR". If you mean what is ATR, it is the average of the true range (TR) of the maximum difference between the high and low per day. Some include the previous day's close in the TR calculation, e.g., the maximum between the previous...
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    Which broker's advisor account can do this?

    You are not a mutual fund. I would not put myself in the position of being one. People get a little touchy about their money and you could easily discover just how touchy. You can get releases signed, agreements not to sue, agreements to arbitrate. etc. It does not matter what you get...
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    Which broker's advisor account can do this?

    Taking your example to an extreme. Client A starts out with $50K. After a year of your brilliant management Client A's account, your only account, is now worth $100K and is fully invested in stocks, bonds, and options. Client A tells his friends how you have made 100% in a year. Four...
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    Margin Call on an IB IRA account (Need Suggestions)

    The question is what does the emphasized sentence in the IRS extract mean? The IRA will have zero value at the end of the year. There are no excess amounts remaining "in the account." An interesting question which I'm glad Developer17 has to find out the answer to, not me!
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    ISE options exchange proposes punitive cancel charges for active traders

    The proposed rule change seems to specifically do away with the entire clearing number and break it down to customers of a clearing firm as well as the clearing firm itself.
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    Results too good to be true?

    Brooks: Only thing you didn't mention and I didn't ask in my last post was the inclusive dates of the one year timeframe. I'm assuming you used the last twelve months. Do you have sufficient data to move the timeframe around to cover different markets (trending + and -, choppy)? You may...
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    Results too good to be true?

    You do not indicate the MACD parameters. Were they standard? What was your backtesting platform? I do not trade the YM but I believe it trades in $5.00 increments. Can you trade between those increments? Did your backtesting engine assume you could? Did you use market or limit orders...
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    ET Bell Curve

    On what capital invested? If I made $20K on $10K I'm ecstatic, if $20K on $500K I'm better off in a CD.
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