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thanks Scott. i thought the same myself. i only noticed it a couple times this morning....only a few minutes apart around 7:00ish. All my other programs worked fine (IB for example, (feed kept up uninterupted)). After those couple incidents, didn't have any other problems for the rest of...

me either to be honest. it seems very rare that i have an issue.

i keep saying im gonna try that combination. i hear good things but i rely on 6 sec. $tick data......quote t have that? thanks for confirmations as well....good to know im not alone with problem.

lost connection a couple times for 30+ seconds......anyone experiencing same?

I always could never understand why we would think that if in this amazing existance there is/are a higher power/s that we could be so selfish as to assume that all that exists was created solely for us.

lol..... acronym, no i was referring to potential terrorists/criminals that might be cought from info gleamed from the net. although the OP was referring to internet information gathering in general i was referring to its intended real *cough*use. my point i was trying to make was...

Oo...hides marijuana under the keyboard....thats not mine i swear iv'e never seen it before......im not guilty i didn't do anything wrong.....i dont know any of these people.....dont beleive anything i say.......they say....oh man what am i saying....... not much different than spending a...

thanks for that kotika....its insperations like that that will get me through the book when it gets a bit dry and my head starts to hurt :P j/k

lmao....lol....good one :D

my opinion would be to continue to develope your skills and papertrade until you get it together...... you seem like you have not figured out what you really want to trade and until you do i dont see how you can develope any particular reliable strategy. until you have a reliable strategy...

Updated for the new millenium: Here's an insight: "The increase of greed, besides, though in the beginning it may sometimes raise the price of goods, never fails to lower it in the long run. It encourages globalization, outsourcing and third world exploitation thereby increasing the...

lol.....:D thanks for replies....think i'll give it a read. got a couple other opinions today that said the insight would be worth the effort.....

ive had a copy lying around for the longest and started to read it but its about as exciting as watching paint dry. picked it up again last night but decided to ask if its relevant from a trader/investors perspective? i would still like to better understand macro economics....i'm starting...

mines still acting up. i cant get any data after 9/26 when i started it up this morning and i still cant save my layout when i exit. it still brings up my old layout. anyone else still having issues? i know on friday it was acting wacky with freezes.

i agree.... $2000 is cutting it too close. i would recomend saving the $5000 and just paper trade and refine or perfect your strategy, find your favorite market etc.... you can burn through $2k really quickly. Interactive Brokers will not let you trade if your account drops below $2000...

mine's been doing that all morning and i cant save my templates either. im trading futures from west coast of US. i have to restart it as well.

they might be trading large lots. small lots of ES are instant fills and in hundreds of trades i would have to say my slippage is rarely .25. most every fill is exact. the spread on ES is only .50

i trade ES not er2 but in my experience fills are instant with futures unless your talking about more than 200 contracts. then it might not be as quick. i havnt traded anything near that quantity yet so i cant comment on trying to move that size but i think i remember reading from another poster...

check out AVAST...they just won an award for their free AV program. i have been using it for a couple years and havn't had an incident yet.

much thanks ursa...will look into that.