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Like I said, the only recent Globex backfill and certain customer service calls have been sub-par. All else very pleased for my time with them. Fact of the matter is you can't expect perfection from any of the online brokers. There is no better jack-of-all trades online broker. Have backup feeds...

I agree, it's real annoying. On average I shoveled over $11k/month commish the past 14 months and been with them for 3.5yrs. Attitude of some in CS need serious work. But to be honest this is the first data issue that has me pivved. When you find a broker that offers as many markets as they do...

I'm very serious about this full-time profession and have never had issues with IB data until mid-Sept (Globex backfill). I'm also a DTN/IQ subscriber for backup data purposes. If you are serious, not sure why you'd have to justify a measly $120/month backup feed incase something goes wrong with...

Yes, problem with Globex backfill is annoying and exact reason I have secondary backfill feed. For those with no backups, the easiest fix is to have IB logged in with 3rd party charting platform up and running by 845am EST. I'm always on by 830am EST (630am MST) and it's NEVER an issue with...

Yes, full time. Mostly futures (ES, DAX), but often have skin in liquid equities (preference for AAPL, RIMM). Started trading part-time a little over 5yrs ago with a full-time job paying the bills. About a yr later dropped the engineering career and have been trading FT ever since. Wouldn't have...

You got it. Was a TDF shot with one of his original Eddy Merckx frames. Yep, Colnago sure knows how to produce a frame. I'm on a Time VXRS frame myself, love it.

No need to criticize other setups when you have no idea what other traders require to comforatbly execute their strategy(s) day in, day out. If you enjoy trading from the "can"?? or beach on a wireless connection running battery power, that's your call. Most serious professionals happen to...

Tax Policy Center estimates that relative to "current" tax law and NOT including current CBO $2.3 tril increase by 2018, McCain/Obama tax proposals would be as follows: McCain: $4.2 trillion increase to the federal debt over ten years (2009-2018). Obama: $2.9 trillion increase to the...

FWIW, that form of cash-future arbitrage is essentially extinct.

I'm not a Roubini follower, but perhaps he had longer time frame in mind with his call? He started getting heavy short bias @ 1300+ in 06. If he acted on such as a trader/investor, last I checked he would be up 25% as of today utilizing non-leveraged indices/instruments.

DOW 7500, SP500 800 within 2q's. You need to do more detail oriented homework on historical market bottoms.

s Ever cross your mind he and many other extremely successful traders just don't know how to read this with $billions to allocate? Very prudent move to cash and cutting off potential further systemic risk. Cohen's group consistently made 85% gross annual compound for over a decade on...

Bush, the guy that said the Economy was fundamentally strong less than a month ago? Save your wind buddy.

Oops, below 9k.

The ranges were great, but the action was extremely difficult to contend with excluding early morning and last 30-mins, this coming from an experienced ES trader. Felt extremely fortunate to walk away from today's mess with 1/5 the RTH range. Oct 6th was a cake-walk compared to today. The recent...

Yeah, had issues with ES backfill this am so switched to backup feed. As noted above, the best solution that seems to work every time is to get your systems up and running by 730am CST. This ensures you are collecting live data, not pinging IB for backfill when going into high volume open. After...

You sound like a PPT shill. Not to mention, how exactly do the "futures" indicate the bottom is in? lol

Couldn't agree more. Sure, this may or may not be a short-term bottom, but people need to keep things in perspective from a historical standpoint. Our last recession (01-03) resulted in a ~49% drop from S&P 500 peak to trough before rebounding into the next bull market. As of close today, we are...

From my experience, it's an IB issue. Have had similar problems with Ninja and Multicharts using IB feed both today and Thurs of last week. Otherwise, IB has been trouble-free. Some wild times we're experiencing these last few weeks, so expect and be prepared for data issues. Using MC, my...

8k form. No big deal.