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careful there Acct....you're losing your discipline already.... also, it would've only made sense to buy INTC here if you believe it's going to break out from the trading range. In other words, you bought it at the top...it's -already- climbed for weeks. In fact, the longest string of...

listen to monkeif...i agree that your profit target and stop-loss level are out of whack. speaking of the profit-target....I don't understand the choice of $100, i.e. a fixed dollar amount. It needs to be related to the actual trade. I.e., if you're trading 1000 shares, that'd give a...

jem; the buyers who bought before...and have now sold....no, they weren't dumb...they were smart. i.e., the ones who SOLD were smart. What you're missing is that this is a classic example of a game of "last one standing". So long as your name is on the title, your "profit" is a PAPER...

Your "question" is difficult to answer, because you couched it in terms of a statement; and one with many assumptions built in; some of which are incorrect. Taking the first one; i.e.: "90% fail no matter what the SYSTEM".... First, 95% of those "invested" in the market don't even have...

thanks for requesting the PREM Steve...appreciated. yes, the rep kept talking about the futures. The problem with the "help" reps is one of attitude. They carry this assumption of being right, and just won't listen. I wasted time responding three times, trying to explain that I was...

Thanks for your reply Steve. A useful, and SENSIBLE, answer... :p I have had a really frustrating string of interactions with "help" in the past few months....the quality and/or training of the "first level" reps seems pretty poor... :( And nobody seems at all interested in ever FIXING...

sigh.... As much as I like IB as a broker, I am getting soooo tired of absolutely STUPID responses from customer "service". All I want to do is add the USD index on a TWS data line; so that I can glance at it throughout the day. But I can't find the symbol for it. So I write to...

"by the govt"....arggghh!! :p I hate it when people unthinkingly repeat that mantra. Ain't propaganda grand? Sooo effective when repeated endlessly... Here is the factually-accurate version: "by the TAXPAYERS" :mad: and it ain't gonna happen, because tax receipts are about to...

the one argument that always cracks me up is... "...but a house is different because you can live in it..." well shit.....when you can't make your payments any more because you lost your job along with the other 30 million Kali gov-drones....AND your home-value just fell 100K below your...

thanks for the link vetten. heck, i left that order in place for an entire DAY !! even a dog-slow bureaucrat shoulda been able to get it entered in that time... <grin>

thanks Vetten. I too am pretty disappointed with IB's handling of OTCBB stocks. I have tried to buy GPXM three days in a row now. Each time, I have entered a price higher than the bid showing; and although my order changes to 'green', i.e. xmitted and accepted, it never even shows up on...

I was talking about options. Not sure of their performance on stock; as 99% of my stock trades are in PM stocks on a longer timeframe....where I have time to wait for a good fill on limit orders. thanks though...

morning Steve, Thanks for your reply. As I mentioned earlier, I signed up with IB 2 years ago. I've had TWS on my laptop throughout that period, and have very few problems with bandwidth in that regard. The issue is with the website. It would be good if the Toronto exchange page...

thank you so much. Yes, I've attempted to use the IB website many times. However... a) the site has a number of problems working with Firefox browser. IB response: "switch to IE". b) the site is bloated with useless and unnecessary graphics, making it PAINFULLY slow to load pages...

that's all right spr, I appreciate your trying to help. Steve, I cannot find a listing in the data-feed subscriptions page for the TSX Venture exchange. Is that data already included in the "Toronto Exchance" subscription? The web page isn't informative in this regard. It also doesn't...

whups....I see that we are crossing replies... <g> I did bring up the TSX page, from the IB 'exchanges' page that jmc pointed me to; and I was able to bring up, for example, Cardero Resources from the entry-field on that page. Great. Now, I just need to enable that on the main TSW page...

thanks for your response Steve. out of curiosity, how long have you offered the TSX exchange? also, in the past week, I have tried entering several different OTC symbols into TSW, and all have failed. Is there a special procedure or code required for these? One final question, how do...

thanks jmc...bringing up that bloated web-page now over this slow rural modem... <g> I'd contacted IB about a particular stock I couldn't bring up in TWS, and the reply was "we don't offer canadian stocks". Doesn't it sometimes seem that there are two 'levels' of IB customer service...

appreciate the reply spr. Canadian mkts aren't electronic ?? huh.... same for the OTC:BB stocks then? I thought they were fully an electronic trading format among dealers now ??

two other quick questions for IB/users: 1) what is the symbol for "PREM" in TWS? 2) what is the symbol for "DX" i.e. the "dollar index" in TWS ? thanks much!