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Yes, bigtime. Something has changed in the last 3+- days. Orders recognition/submission had almost reached instantaneous rates lately (nice job IB). But this week has been very bad, 10-20 seconds at the open, and 2-4 seconds intraday. Couple that with stuck island quotes, a down ARCA line...

Heritage is a great site for certified (slabbed) numismatic (collectable) coins. Great place, solid data on realized auction prices for every issue. It's a good way to build an alternative investment portfolio. Buyers premium is 5%, sellers is 15%. In the end it just comes out of the...

Also see kitco's Perth Mint certificate program, super tight spreads on platinum for those. A very unique program run in part by the government of Australia.

Bulliondirect has a 1% commish. on the Nucleo exchange ECN(tack on an extra 1% vs. what you see to buy/sell). Shipping for a 1000oz silver bar is about $65 UPS ground, Gold is about $10-15 for small amounts. They carry Lloyds of Lon. insurance, makes shipping easy. You can also warehouse it at...

Light trading, but made a few bucks. REIT stocks took a dump on me, lost a couple K in there, and another couple in spreads widening on arbs. Was up 8k, but only came away with +3.9k MTM, including divs, across all accts.

I musta taken your place with your cellmate, then. Finished puking out my wayward risk arb, worst trade I've ever had....think it nailed me for about 40 large over the last 8-9 days. At least my medicine has been taken, startin' fresh next week. Main account: flat, shortside accounts...

At the same time, it sounds as if the IRS is challenging the prop business structures and are calling the members ...employees. Nothing firm from them yet, though. The IRS really seems to be churning a lot of the trader structures, requirements, and deductions as of late. They had nicely...

Looks like the "Elite 25 P/L thread" Index was definately down today. :p :(

Started puking out my "statistically deviant" short, on one of my risk arbs. First one I've ever had to puke out, this was a statistical stop loss. Anyway, it's killed my account for a week+. +3600mtm in main account, -4100 short accounts, net -500. Goin' nowhere faaaaaaaaast. OK volume...

I'd go with gnomes idea. X-keys is programmable enough that it should handle a multi-application launch with 1 keystroke.

Heee, OK, OK Chicken lil'. We get the joke. Welcome to the P/L thread, nice to have you posting. Nice to see your +3600 AS WELL. :p

I agree with the others that this is not an optimal set-up, and that at the open is where it's really needed. Yet, this has absolutley nothing to do with IB, this is simply how the SLB operations between firms work. It's largely a manual process for the HTBs. It's very difficult to get true...

Better volume today, 255,000sh. Main acct was dn 2600MTM the other short side accounts brought in 7900MTM, so net was +5300. I'll take it, was down 7k at the open. EDIT: Replaced my blotter with a new shot so you could see my positions sizes.

IRS 6% annual penalty,every year, for the amount over the contribution limit- if it is not removed, or applied to a forward year when you can contribute. I believe it's also "technically" illegal to knowingly misuse a tax deferred/free investment vehicle for tax avoidance. The 10% you...

Ugggghhh. I've got a statistical deviant killin' my other account, think I'll have to puke it out tommorrow... it killed the overall today. Otherwise, a very slow day. 60,500sh. Main: +9200 MTM, others -13900. Net -4700.

You're correct, the IRS has clearly dissallowed "details upon request" for 2005 and going forward. They want line item details for every trade for securities. This is a new change, from the previous years. Definately a big step backward for the IRS and for traders. Thanks IB for the type...

Got multiple quad cards, waiting in the wings. Used matrox quad cards are cheaper than 2 new dual. If 1 dual card goes out, just put in the quad card. Beats being dropped down to 2 monitors. Another great set-up, idea: If you MUST have some 128+mb cards....like gnome said go real deal...

Had to adjust & re-up a few spread trades, as they kept getting wider with the market drop. Once I did, came out ok. Other accounts did really well today (all short). Still couldn't hold on to the top, was up 14.5k, came away with 9300 across all accounts MTM. Main account shown is MTM +4200...

Yes, given how you've clearly laid it out--I'd agree mschey. Without a bit of synopsis about the trades, not much can be gleaned from a blotter. Yet, the profitable guys will be hounded on the thread and it'll become their own journal of on going questions, and not a P/L thread. This is a...

Yup, we're all still here, lurking. I guess I should get back to posting my P/L, the months I posted were my best. It put my nose to the grindstone to show you guys some good numbers....it got me motivated. Glad to see a showing from lescor and Echopatrick, really enjoyed sharing ideas...