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Why doesn't IB have a generator/failsafe system? Bloomberg sounds pretty cool about things.

sucks to be long.

What is up with this power outage going all along the East Coast and into Canada? No wonder IB went down like a brick.

did anybody just lose IB in the last 5-10 minutes of the day?

http://hedgefundcenter.com/ has employment listings

i haven't had access to it in a while, but when i did, Reuters streaming newsfeed was outstanding.

well, I used to work a few feet away from one of the top heads of trading at an IB, who allegedly made $50M a year. I'm sure another I'm thinking of made much more, but I don't know for sure.

I got hit hard by this thing last night too. I set up zone alarm free and its working fine today.

I watch the index higher/lower contracts on saturdays when i'm holding large positions just to get a sense of where the gap will be on monday. what's an "e-tiny" lol?

Has anyone had trouble recently with this new virus/hack attempt that takes advantage of Window's RPC Dcom vulnerabilities? I got nailed today, it brought down Tradestation and the entire pc four times. First I installed the MSFT security patch and McAfee firewall in addition to McAfee...

czech gangster rap. it's pretty funny.

technically, this is neither electronica or trance, but an absotute classic from the early 80's amongst futuristic computer music composers: Kraftwerk - Computer World I promise you will enjoy this record.

I think I remember hearing once that possibly Sony manufactured a pair of smart headphones. The idea is that when a certian signal strength is reached in the ambient noise outside the phones, it mutes the music and turns on a microphone on the outside of the earpiece so you can hear the people...

Tradebolt users. I loaded up this app and there were a few things I didn't like about it. number one, it runs a process even when TB isnt running. number two, there was no uninstall exe. I'm concerned that apps like TB are sending my trades remotely somewhere to be analyzed and traded by...

Very interesting, thanks guys. I knew futures were very old, but didn't realize they dated to 18th century Japan. Fascinating, thanks.

I agree with Entropytrader to a certain degree. At least for me, the IB world was not a long term direction I wanted to pursue. On the other hand, I might not be here trading now if I hadn't worked there and learned a little from my experience. I never worked for a fund, but if it's a small...

Does anybody know where and when the first futures exchange in the world was started? Also in the US? Was the CME or the CBOT first? Thanks

This is an outstanding idea. I'm all for this. Do any discount futures brokers currently offer full auto phone trading? In a huge emergency, functionality like this could help IB retain thousands of customers who otherwise might blow up their accounts. TM - with regard to protective...

i concur with bungrider's suggestion. if a position at a hedge fund is currently unavailable (this would be my first choice), a clerk position in one of the trading pits would probably look pretty good. you'll work extremely hard and learn a lot. i have a friend who clerked on the NYMEX 3...

Suppose there were strategies that were good month over month and year over year for more than a decade, with only minor adjustments necessary. How infinitesimal are the odds that anybody but the developers would ever know anything about them? Isn't the assumption that everything can be...