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Hi, Art Just wanted to let you know that I appreciate your odds analysis very much! It's a nice complement to my overall trading strategy :)

Update: I had a great week scaling in and out of my short; didn't initiate any long positions until Wed. afternoon (fading the new lows after 3 PM) and even then I've been scalping on the long and staying longer on the short. I'm carrying only 4 YM shorts initiated today before the system went...

run the system restore to an earlier time before you had this problem.

I'm short 10 YMs going into this weekend (been scaling in and out in the past few days but basically I've been "pissing against the wind" like Volente_00 described his move on another thread and I'm down about 1% of my porfolio; I'll probably cut it at around 2-2.5%). My reasoning was threefold...

Thank goodness we have Elite Trader to share news/ideas. Best of luck to all of you.

I suppose another alternative to hedging YM is buying/selling the Diamonds.

Looks like an island reversal on major stock indices.

I would sometimes get into multiple trades on a single security based on different time frames (all on the same direction though, for obvious reasons). For instance, I might short YM based on a 2 min chart with a 2 min chart-based stop and also have a short on YM based on a 60 min chart and...

It was painful to hold the short but dang, it's rewarding! :D

The current PE ratio, looking at it on an absolute historical term, seems fair to low. A quandary for investors to consider regarding the current situation is that many market tops in the past HAVE occurred during the so-called low PE points, which were preceeded by robust earnings growth...

Amen to that. Been selling into the bond & the (this week's) stock rally (not to short but to unload them for cash). I'm not as bearish as the initial poster of this thread, but the argument that this rally is a head fake is more convincing to me than that this is the real thing. To me...

My main work station is a Pentium D 2.8 GHrz w/ 2 gigs of RAM connected to 4 monitors. Absolutely satisfied and since I won't upgrade to Vista for its first 2-3 years it should be more than adequate to run my TWS and Ensign (with about 40 stacked charts) during the trading hours in the...

If for some reason you lose connection each time you change the layout, click on Set-Up ---> Connection ---> Connect to IB. Ensign refresh is a bit of a hassle and it does have other quirks, but having used eSignal, I would choose the former over latter anyday. You can also create more space...

Click on a chart and press alt+1 to refresh.

For futures - pretty close to the real thing. For stocks - notice some delays.

With all these seers, prophets, witch doctors, psychics etc., Elite Trader is looking more and more like the yahoo mb :(

It calls for a very very long straddle.

A little face-lift.

IB Canada 1 877 745 4222 IB US 1 877 442 2757 Are you using Bell Sympatico by any chance? I've had the same problem today and was told by IB that many other people using it called them about connectivity issues.

A while back. I liked their service overall and thought it was more reliable than eSignal (used it concurrently, now I use ensign & sometimes QT) at a significantly lower price. It's web browser based and lacks some bells and whistles that some stand-alones have, but that in no way should...