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pretty funny :p but considering that everyone from dubya on down is crying 'WOLF' on this thing, I think it is relatively prudent to discuss a little more about the possible consequences ... you don't check your insurance AFTER the tornado wipes out your house ... (or your mobile home :D )

I thought I would start a new line of thought from where we were in the smoke and mirrors thread ... It's obvious that Bin Laden & Co. have a severe hard-on for NYC. Their last efforts simply took out a few buildings ... yes it was terrible, but facts being facts, more people die in 3 weeks...

I stayed out of the bull market because I always thought it was smoke and mirrors ... now I see real opportunity for substantial profit all the way down to wherever ... No one has a crystal ball and every effort at prognostication at a micro level is doomed to failure IMO, but at the macro...

'You are currently living AND trading in China? Yes. What can you trade? Most US brokers accept foreign accounts. How do you trade? As well as I can :D How do you get paid? There is no restriction of sending money to China, just bring it out. How do you convert the...

or wait 4 weeks (!@#$#@) for the Single Stock Futures ... :D

http://www.shibumi.org/eoti.htm :D

http://www.satirewire.com/index.shtml warning : not for the politically correct :D

Anyone know what the record daily gain (or even better the record 10 gains) in the SPX index is or where I might be able to find such info ? Thanks.

It's a spurious argument in IB's case ... it's like saying EVERYONE is using the same TA to make their decisions. Ridiculous. In any case, IB DOES offer trailing stops ... thru Excel or thru ActiveX etc. Anyone with a bit of motivation should be able to setup a simple system to handle...

http://straitstimes.asia1.com.sg/money/story/0,1870,116149,00.html? yeah, right ... some droidette at the CFTC thought this up all by herself ... notice Cantor got sued ... then bought the patent and is suing everybody else now to get their money back. Ain't the land of the free and...

and edison didn't invent the light bulb ... tesla did ... edison & westinghouse just stole it from him (as well as about a million other ideas). and didn't JC say something about a camel and a needle ??? M

yes, of course I am concerned :) unfortunately, i am between a rock and a hard place ... of course i am in a unique situation (and not recommended) but, either i use the sw or i DON'T trade. also, i freely admit i am a bad discretionary trader, so the sw helps me in that area as well. if...

Yes, I do. I wrote a PowerBuilder program which implements ActiveX to control quotes/trading on IB. I use a strictly mechanical approach because ... I live on the other side of the planet from NY and am not a vampire so I can't stay up all night to watch. So far the programming end of...

very interesting example ... I would think one of the major uses of SSF's would be shorting, not having to worry about the uptick rule, assuming the spreads are not too wide. Waiting for an uptick vs. the extra commissions + spreads will be one of the deciding calculations in deciding which...

ok, here is a rather basic question I have not seen answered anywhere ... (and please don't reply to use the search button as I did this for 5 hours already and no info ... include a URL if you do have info hidden somewhere on ET that I haven't found, please ...) On TWS (and other...

maybe I missed something, but if the stock is fairly liquid and you are looking to buy 4000+ shares in a five to ten minute period, why not just split up your orders into bite-sized pieces ... 40 trades of 100 shares @ market spread out @ 5-10 second intervals should all come off almost...

Here is an interesting article ... Although I think the author missed the boat on the cause in my opinion. The increase in options is most like the result of the PDT rule. It's what I would do if I didn't have an extra $25k laying around...

fall down seven times ... stand up eight. japanese proverb

I just thought some of you might be interested ... I am using the ActiveX control in a PowerBuilder application and so far it seems to work fine. I am still in the testing stage but hope to go live with an automated trading system (ATS) by the end of this week. I originally designed the ATS...