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    IB to charge IRA fees

    <i>Effective 10/01/2010, IRA customers will be responsible for the $7.50 quarterly fee charged by our trustee. This fee will be taken out at the end of each quarter. For new accounts, the fee will be applied beginning the first full quarter after the account has been funded.</i> from...
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    Is anyone will to share a with me a strategy that used to work but doesn't

    <a href="http://wl4.wealth-lab.com/cgi-bin/WealthLab.DLL/getpage?page=Top25.htm">http://wl4.wealth-lab.com/cgi-bin/WealthLab.DLL/getpage?page=Top25.htm</a> Nearly all in the top 25 are extreme dip buyers, but there are plenty of working systems there on the WL website, many that still work...
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    Fed up with Pinnacle ... other options?

    After my Pinnacle data got all screwed up tonight I am fed up with them and looking for a replacement. I already use Premium Data (Norgate) as my backup but their data does not go as far back as Pinnacle (there is a hack to import Pinnacle data into their DB but I am not sure how it would match...
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    Request IB Tick Data - JAVA API

    There is a Yahoo TWS API group ... join it and see there are lots of sample code postings there. People will answer questions too.
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    IB - so frustrating! Keep ending up with leftover shares!

    I'm not clear how you're entering the trades. Can you detail how each trade is entered and what you're specifying for each field? Bitching has it's place but first let's make sure it's not a setting you're somehow missing.
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    How many days locked limit up/down?

    Duke & Duke ... see: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trading_Places
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    How many days locked limit up/down?

    Does it involve Duke & Duke? :D :D :D
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    How many days locked limit up/down?

    I remember reading in a book (I believe on options) that even in a lock limit market you can basically exit (fully hedge) your position with a synthetic long/short in the options market. Obviously this is not something you want to have to deal with but it can be a way to limit your losses (or...
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    Stephen Hawking Says We Have To Get Off The Planet

    Reading this board I'm surprised I haven't seen this yet: 5 - Obama elected president
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    VPS for trading (X_Trader)

    A VPS works great until one of the other VPS servers on your machine, which is hosting a web site, gets overloaded with some promotion that company is running at the same time a big economic release comes out, currencies go wild, and you're left with ZERO CPU time for 30 seconds, after which...
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    Probability of System Theft at a Retail Broker

    Split your trades over multiple brokers, they will then have incomplete information and may have more difficulty figuring out your system.
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    Help visiting CME or CBOT

    If a tree falls in the woods and nobody is there to hear it, does it still make a noise?
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    Help visiting CME or CBOT

    To spice things up they should put up graphics on the wall representing what they are doing for (more likely to) their customers. For example every time they rape a customer they could put up a 5 second clip from "Oz". I'm sure it would draw more people to watch the pits.
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    what actually caused coffee move?

    Use a crystal ball like Madame Bendova.
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    Hedge fund corners cocoa market????

    Only if your stationary says "Goldman Sachs" or SAC.
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    Online backup that does not run continuously on your pc?

    Why not have scheduled jobs that kill IDrive in the morning and then re-start it at the end of the trading day? Use the taskkill command line to kill all instances of IDrive (the main exe and the 67 other apps it uses).
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    IB error: Order price is outside price limits

    Not convinced this is an order preset. First, it took the order and then canceled it the following morning. Second, my futures preset precautionary settings are 25% and 10 contracts, neither of which was anywhere close to being hit. Total amount also not close to being hit. The response...
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    IB error: Order price is outside price limits

    Anyone else received the error "Order price is outside price limits"? I received this the other day and had my order canceled and they finally got back to me with some weird explanation about daily futures price limits which clearly didn't make sense because it traded through my stop price that...
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    FWIW - SFO mag now offering online free subscriptions

    I hope nobody has been paying for SFO....they offer free subscriptions to anyone with an address. Never found anything useful in the magazine though....then again never found much use for Active Trader or TASC either :( :(
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