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    Poker vs Trading

    Remember: you don't play the cards, you play the players. Annette Obrestad, who won the first ever WSOP event held outside America, which netted her £1m ($2m), played an entire 180-person sit-and-go without looking at her cards - and she took it down...
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    CL options on IB

    CL options have been available on TWS (finally!) for several days, however when I try to put in an order, I get the "No trading permission, account requirements" error message. Are CL options tradable or not with IB?
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    IB is having problems again?

    You're right the SPX went up about 10-15 handles in the pits, although it was over a period of 4 hours, and with no intraday swings, i.e almost in a straight line, and so did the cash market. What I meant to say was that the intraday volatility was suddenly gone, and both the cash and futures...
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    IB is having problems again?

    WWIW my guess is that some of the T1 data lines into the CME failed, and consequently many market participants lost access . This event looked to me as if GLOBEX was still up and running but the order flow was partially (mostly) disrupted. I'm actually encouraged by the fact that you could still...
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    Is IB completely down now and for more than 30 minutes!!!?

    Interactive Brokers System Status Updated: 2007/10/31 06:13:03 EST Refreshed: 06:25 EST (Next Refresh: 60 seconds) System Availability Stat Message Created/Updated US Data center system outage Clients connecting to the US data center may currently experience problems...
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    Is IB completely down now and for more than 30 minutes!!!?

    I was logged out of both my accounts at 9:50am GMT today for the first time ever. Based in London.
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    Smoooooooooooooked at the close

    News that Goldman's global alpha was down 27% came out on Bloomberg....
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    Interactive Brokers submits bid for Refco

    Heard it on Bloomberg TV 30 mins ago, now reported by Reuters as well. http://today.reuters.com/investing/financeArticle.aspx?type=bondsNews&storyID=URI:urn:newsml:reuters.com:20051020:MTFH81601_2005-10-20_21-52-28_WEN1761:1
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    Here Is The Huge Bond Spike

    I too noticed the spike in the bond futures about 10 seconds before the data appeared on Bloomberg on Friday. This time the suspicious trades took place a few seconds earlier than in the past, but it is certainly not the first time something like this has happened recently. I trade U.S. treasury...
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    Anyone trading Eurex on Monday?

    I'd like to know whether EUREXUS can and will provide real-time volume data for the contracts traded on their platform. ECBOT and GLOBEX provide it and I find it extremely useful, especially when trading U.S. Treasury futures. EUREX/DTB doesn't seem to provide the volume data either. I use...
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    Short sale availability

    I repeatedly tried to short the Oil Services Holders ETF (OIH) on Oct 15 and 16 but kept getting the message from IB that it wasn't available to short. I've shorted this ETF several hundreds of times in the past 6 months and NEVER once had a problem. If IB isn't restricting the short...
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