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Sorry Yannis, this time I was being relatively serious. But I never said I was human or intelligent. Unfortunately, I am human. I am also a little too intelligent for my liking. I am not racist, and I don't consider my statement racist, you will note I didn't say "white" or "black" or...

Zinger! You got me. But seriously, it is a little tricky, since the law I was talking about is only implicitly incorporated into the German constitution (in Article 139). But that's the way it works. Nobody says "We the people are evil and want to cause death and destruction." They all...

The German constitution violates basic human rights as it is. There is no freedom of speech. You go to prison for several years for asking the question whether or not reports about WWII concentration camps are accurate. The reason why Germans don't get political asylum is that the US is run...

Thanks def! Why didn't anyone tell me? I was suspecting it, but the only "official" information from IB that I remembered was something in the account agreement about having to mark my orders short...

By "negative position" I meant being short that stock, not negative P/L. I'll see if I can get that right click thing to work...

Let me put it like this: Either I have not figured out how to do it or I have a suggestion for an easy to implement yet huge improvement to IB's TWS: Is there a setting that I can change so that if I click on a stock's bid price and my position in this stock is 0 or negative, TWS brings up a...

but not impossible?

My sentiment exactly.

How about this scalping system: tick chart enter long on every tick preceding four consecutive up-ticks enter short on every tick preceding four consecutive down ticks stop is not necessary take profit before the first tick in the adverse direction Any comments?

Do you think tao_trader is qdz? My unique perspective is that qdz is a big cry-baby, but not mentally ill. On the other hand, tao_trader is the first individual I have "met" who seems to suffer from the same psychosis I suffer from, but in a more intense way. I offer 2:1 that tao_trader...

That's America for you! In other countries, mail-order businesses usually send out their merchandise before a customer's payment has cleared, but the US seems to be a nation of empty promises when it comes to payment. Over here, when you certify under penalty of perjury that you will pay a...

What if you short SPY? Then you will have to write 500 reports and mail them to IB!

I don't think it's a certain amount of time, it's just a certain date on which they determine who gets one and who doesn't.

I didn't vote because there is no option "I agree with most of it and I am sure it helps others, but I have not learned anything new." I do have one question though: You speak of "time value". This detail has never crossed my thoughts before. Why would futures have a time value? Maybe...

The problem with that would be that sometimes you will get the price quoted and sometimes there will be significant slippage. The latter will usually be the case exactly when you are counting on getting the quoted price.

I'm not sure about JPM, since I didn't trade the stock much, but GE and JNJ certainly deserve it.

I like those movies very much, but I disagree with a lot of the underlying philosophy. Of course. there is always the new movie which eliminates the need for thinking and conditions viewers according to the current political system's needs: "War is good. Think is no."

That depends on how you define "ape".

Is buying odd lots better? Let me elaborate: If I buy 1 share of a stock when it is trading at 25.49 and it drops to 25.00 I only lose 49 cents plus commission. Had I bought 100 shares, I would be out 49 dollars! Why would anyone (except big hedgefunds) want to buy more than one share?

but not as profitable