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Did you find any trojan on your PC ? Once someone gets running a trojan on other people´s PC he almost can do anything he wants. No problem to read passwords from keyboard or to forward emails (i.e. your tokens from IB) found in your ´inbox´.

You don´t even need a system crash to get your account positions messed up. I recommend re-reading what happened to elocal customers in the past.

Today they had a bulletin out: See also www.elitetrader.com/vb/showthread.php?s=&threadid=5376

Even if they are fungible there might be the problem that you do not know what position you have. And yes, sometimes your broker does not know either. And in the end he will tell you that it´s your responsibility to know what positions you have. Sounds familiar to anyone ? This same old story...

Online Brokers with a lot of customers will all have similar problems when the online platform goes down for all customers at the same time. How could you pick up the phone in such a case if you had a lot of cusstomers calling you at the same time ? Best solution might be two independent...

Currently you can only trade stocks with Point Direx. What about trading E-minis ?

Warning ! Not for the faint hearted ! :D www.shibumi.org/eoti.htm

I wonder where all this stupid Linksys NICs come from ? Is it the ISP (cable modem) that distributes them ?

There was a time when I watched Level II quotes for T-Bonds and for E-Mini S&P. Without having an additional crystal ball it does not help anything in trading.

2 seconds is rather slow, I´d say ... :D

You open the Java Plugin Control Panel and chose the tab Browser. Uncheck Microsoft Internet Explorer. Then all the MS Java applications (chat, Datek streamer, JTrader, ...) will be happy - and if you listen very carefully you can hear them whisper "God Save Bill Gates !" :D

All you need to do is uncheck Browser Intergration with IE 6.0 in Settings/ControlPanel/JavaPlugin and your Datek Streamer will be running side-by-side with IB TWS (standalone).

Yesterday, was it time to load up ? :D

Your ISP has a range of IP numbers and you get one them. Anybody with too much time can do a scan thru that range. Scan means they send out a bunch of ´pings´ and wait for reply. ZA writes any such request into a log file, but does not reply ("stealth mode").

Result: www.elitetrader.com/vb/showthread.php?s=&postid=61832&highlight=point+direx#post61832

If you do not trade NYSE (and do not have an ISP that causes TWS to start its re-connect procedure) there are not too many problems you would have had over the last 12 months. Organization of helpdesk could be improved: If your question is too difficult they simply do not reply (or they reply...

Open futures account and send in 10k. :D

Did you find any trojan on your PC ? Once someone gets running a trojan on other people´s PC he almost can do anything he wants. No problem to read passwords from keyboard or to forward emails (i.e. your tokens from IB) found in your ´inbox´.

Maybe you should give more info - TWS standalone or browser ? - Sun Java version ? - Network Card (NIC) ?

No problem with Nasdaq quotes. I never trade NYSE, what is it good for ? :confused: