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You are obviously not diversified enough... or hedged well enough. Right now... I am Long 32 positions... and Short 27 positions. When your Portfolio starts looking like mine... You will enjoy quite predictable profits from week to week... And have perhaps one losing month per year...

The question presupposes that many people actually take Net Forums seriously. Doing so is always a mistake. Web 2.0 is a big mirage. Groupies with MySpace pages think that they are professional musicians... Kids with popular YouTube channels think that they are in show business...

We are really talking about The Decline of Western Civilization. The transformation in one generation is shocking. The items below would have been impossible in the 70s... When common sense and decency were still valued as positive character traits: (1) UFO and Conspiracy talk shows...

I don't disagree with anything that you have written... But SMART is optional... You can route anywhere you like and accept the consequences. It's also good to keep in mind... That ** IB's profits ** are directly related to the quality of the SMART routing algorithm. So it's safe to...

It's part of the API download. Install the API... and then search for TwsDde.xls Actually, it should be in the "c:\Jts\Excel" directory. It's a fairly well designed and coded Excel workbook... That connects to your TWS and displays IB quotes... Plus has a lot of additional functionality.

This thread is hysterical. Like the "cancellation fees"... If anyone bothered to read the PDFs... Are NYSE $0.01 and AMEX $0.25... And only if someone is extreme enough to have a 9:1 ratio cancels to fills... And this is charged on the broker level... And completely discretionary on the...

Why don't you just go with "unbundled commissions" at IB? At 2,000,000 shares/month listed trading I pay about $0.0033/share... Maybe a little less. At 1,000,000 shares/month... It would probably work out to about $0.0038 to $0.0040/share. You'll get the interest you want... PLUS...

The IDA is not in the business of giving advice to non-members. That said... Becoming a member of the IDA is very doable... Just meet the requirements and you are in. Then welcome to Regulatory Hell... Dim-witted, masochistic beaurocrats looking up you a**hole... And making you jump...

Men and women are equally intelligent... But have very different intellectual strengths and weaknesses. Can you explain why roughly 95% of traders are men... And women have a near total lack of interest or aptitude in Zero Sum games?

Short EBay. Time is running out on the CONTEMPT EBay has for it's customers. (1) Buyers do not feel safe... because EBay enables fraud and then looks the other way. Any communication with EBay becomes a pure, deliberate mind f*ck on their part. I've bought about 50 items... but I would...

To put this in a positive way... There are exactly 2 ways a trader makes money: (1) By entering a position in a non-random way... With a positive expectation going in due to market inefficiencies... Which is the whole point of quant analysis. (2) From exploiting the bid/ask spread...

DREAM ON GUYS. There are many reasons to devise ** deliberately sub-optimal ** strategies: (1) Free Lunch mentality. (2) Laziness. (3) Fundamental misunderstanding of the markets. (4) Lack of university level education in hard math/stats. (5) Inability to do anything...

Why are the top NYSE executives not being charged? Why are the CEOs of the major Specialist firms not in the slammer? The Officers are 100% responsible for the NYSE Rackets... They built them and maintain them with loving care... And have now neutralized Reg NMS... NOT their lowly...

Tell it like it is, Steve. While Islam is producing brave men willing to die for their ideals, however misguided... America is a land where ET "men"... Are Fake "day trader" Pretenders by day... Watch Fake News shows and Fake Rock Star shows in the evening... And listen to fake UFO...

If this were TRUE... it would be widely known... therefore it is FALSE. PC type hardware will last longest if kept at a stable temperature... I have been advised this by Electrical Engineers. The wear and tear on your system from constant shut down... And the dramatic changes in...

The Hotbrick is GREAT... If you can get it working with your configuration. It's by far the best router I have... out of 5 in front of me. The big trick to get the HotBrick to work with DSL is: (1) Update Firmware to latest. (2) Drop the MTU from 1492 to 1400. At 1492 my HotBrick...

"What past Imperial Statesmen strove to achieve with much cunning and cynicism... The Bush Administration has brought about accidentally". Ha-ha-ha. Karl Rove must be behind all this... From the Wall Street Journal: http://www.opinionjournal.com/extra/?id=110009521

They are both doing their job. Sell, Sell, Sell 1,000,000 times.

Hedge funds are relatively unstable enterprises... And rich hedge fund investors are notorious money shufflers in and out of hot/cold funds. One bad year can seriously wound a hedge fund. So the natural dynamic... Would be to create more stable firms via IPOs and publicly traded...

Pencils never go down.