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Yes, I looked at http://www.metaquotes.net/metatrader which describes the platform. I see metaquotes offers a trading account combined with a 'client terminal'. It sure looks ok at first sight, but it is indeed linked to a broker, like I said as many charting apps are. Some also use Tradestation...

That explains (part of) the misunderstanding. Because you wanted IB to improve on the charting I assumed that you were a user of those, not any external program. And thus I assumed you were not familiar with QT or another external charter because, in my reasoning, why would you want improved...

And why is that? Not very nice. I really am serious in replying. I was maybe a bit harsh in rebutting your claim that IB would be great if it would have great charting. But I do really think that if you should not let your choice of broker depend on that. I know that, I did so several months...

Well, before he was first elected most Europeans knew Bush to be the dangerous monkey he proved to be . Almost half of the US voted him in a second term. Ursa..

I apologize Rat. I didn't realize that word would be considered cursing. I see it more a cultural nominator, like sexist or racist. Maybe you were right and is it becoming too hard to keep composure with these types around. I will reset and try to keep cool :) Ursa..

Excellent analysis Bitstream. Together with man's very legit questioning of the coincidence of all 3 buildings going down, in almost the same way, I think Occam's razor is slowly reducing the question to that of motive alone; that something fishy was going on is almost a fact. As man...

Who says they don't? And who wants to be long/short the stock anyway? I've always wondered why stock traders do not use synthetic longs/shorts? Same risk/reward as stock, with a fraction of the investment. Btw, the margin requirements for the short part of the synthetic are on some...

I think that's correct. IB's charts does not really have this limit, so it can easily backfill 90 days of 1 min data without being blocked by TWS API. Still, it would be nice if QT somehow allowed for manually changing the defaults. I have only about 10 quotations open, for about 7 charts at a...

Clam, are u actually reading any of the answers? I said it was abandoned, a few posts ago. And what's with the question about backfill from QT? It is so easy to try out for yourself. Download QT, install QT, fire TWS, fire QT, setup dataports. Add a quote or 2 to QT, rightclick and open...

V0.77 will not read this (he put me on ignore :) ) but for those waiting for a comeback I want to refer to http://www.elitetrader.com/vb/showthread.php?s=&threadid=83926 for some genuine redneck patriot sexism. Ursa..

Don't worry, each chain counts for only one line. Ursa..

You clearly havent tried any of these apps. Ibcharts.com is definitely far worse than QT and is a dead project/ no support anymore. Metaquotes is a complete trading platform to implement a trading room with many booths. Probably thousands of $'s per workplace. And Tradestation, well I know there...

Yeah, probably the best way to enter Italy along that route (Locarno/Bellinzona). Every season is ok there :) Edit: that would be the Lago Maggiore, not Como. Well, nice too ;) As pertaining to this thread, although Italian fascism was of course bad and inhuman, I still sometimes feel it...

Eg. Quotetracker will be free (or about $50 a year if you don't want adds). You can have it run within 15 minutes from now if you start the dowload. It is much more flexible than TWS-charts will be in the coming 5 years. It has so many features, chart-types and event-filters, I still don't know...

What has good charts to do with which broker you choose. I use IB for trading and for data. That is enough. Many packages out there that let you visualize that data. No need for IB to move mountains to implement charting. In fact, I would prefer them to stop supporting charting and concentrate...

Was Caesar from Bamberg, then? NO! LoL. Loved that reference. I like your description of the 'feel for flow' the Italians have. And I share your love for the country and it's people. Sadly I have to live in the cold and wet north of Europe but fortunately I currently spend about 5 weeks per...

Ok, I understand you now. Because of the extremely binary outcome of the bet volatilty is meaningless as a statistical derivate. The gamble ppl buy or sell is based on extreme future values of the stock and hence there is hardly difference between the front- and the next month. Thanks for...

No, I thought you didn't, just checking. I havent looked at the actual prices, but in general, and in theory, the credit received is is not relevant for the bet. Of course the more the better, but as always, you bet that you have to pay less to close later. Essential is, imo, that the...

Damn, now I'm jealous. Kidding aside, I'm seriously astounded at the amount of dumbness in this one person. Without realizing it I think he made more ppl doubt the official story then any of our questions could. To see a guy with that level of intelligence defending that side makes everyone...

What do you mean by that? The actual IV's are not so important. he vega is and is much higher on the deferred month, so you prfit when IV is bloated. A short calendar would also profit from a sudden move in the price. After which the IV collapses, usually. Ursa..