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A surprisingly level-headed response from LongShot! Relative to my previous (low-fat) diet, I replaced a lot of carbs with more fiber and protein, not fat. (BTW, that is my biggest criticism of low-carb diets: they do not adequately specify what it is you should be replacing carbs with, and...

For the benefit of others, I will address this nonsense once (hey, its Friday, and this will keep me from responding to Jack's latest stuff). - I watch my own blood lipid profile and several others on lower-carb diets, and can attest that the results are not spurious or short-term. -...

Exactly. Good example is Subway's new "Atkin's Friendly" wrap, where they replace bun with a lower-carb, higher-protein, higher-fiber wrap. You then add meat and vegetables and cheese in whatever amounts and types suit you. For most "normal" amounts you might add, you end up with a pretty good...

- low carb doesn't mean low sweet - there are several safe sugar substitutes that allow you to keep eating "sweets" - low carb doesn't mean high fat; it more often means higher protein (just depends on which lower-carb diet you're on) The "high fat" criticism of lower-carb diets is a straw...

My comment above did not apply to trades. You may very well have a problem seeing all trades. I've never trusted that part of their data feed and do not rely on it in my trading, although their periodic trade volume updates are close enough for what I'm doing with volume. If I was using one...

I watch the IB feed very closely at the sub-second level for all US index futures, and I doubt that we're missing much. Eurex, however, is a completely different story, but that is not IB's fault. The few times when you might be missing something are when the market is moving fast, but those...

Any comment on that def? Have the disconnection issues been directly addressed with server improvements during last month or two?

I can confirm that. In fact, they have gotten better over time (the volume reported is now more timely). My only complaint with them has been the occassional interruption during active trading times, but even that seems to have been reduced in last couple of months. Would be interesting to...

Like I said, I should not have said anything in your thread if I was not willing to put in the time to respond to you. For your edification: - all confident people are "arrogant" in some sense, but are not all bullies or braggards - not everyone thinks Douglas is a god - not everyone who...

I left because you are a braggart and a bully. I have no interest in helping you learn how to trade, have no need for your attention, and much prefer that you think the wrong things about me (a lesson from your karate). On my end, I really shouldn't post if I'm not going to take the time to...

LOL. The good news is that Scientist seems to have found a friend and soul mate in Jack.

Thanks to all you guys for the nice responses, most of which I agree with as qualifications to my statement. Actually, the comeback I was anticipating was for someone to say that all trading methodologies are "marginal" in some sense, so therefore psychology was in fact of paramount...

Sure. I was just making the point that its not "all about" psychology, or that psychology is the #1 thing to worry about. This is similar to those who try to argue that entries don't matter, or that its all about money management. Note Scientist's reluctance to talk about the details of his...

Traders with marginal trading strategies always conclude that trading is all about psychology, since that is the only way they can get their marginal strategies to be profitable (i.e., they have too little room for error or undisciplined behavior).

You're just saying that you're surprised that the guy in the forest gets way off (or stays off) course so often. I'm just saying that most people are not surprised by this result. They understand that, (1) given a long enough journey, they're likely to get blown off course sometime during it...

If you have someone start walking through a forest in a certain direction (w/o paths, etc.), few people would expect them to come out anywhere near the "projected" point based on the direction in which they were first nudged. Moreover, if we found out that the subject had wandered significantly...

If you flip a coin a million times, the chances that it will turn up heads exactly 500,000 times and tails 500,000 times are extremely small. More to the point, the chance that the ratio will be anywhere near 1:1 will be small, since the corresponding piece of the distribution will still be...

Thanks Jon (and Def). "More fault tolerance" seems to be the point, in that your systems are not recovering fast enough from outside disruptions or unexpected loads. On a practical note, if you can get trade-affecting disruptions during the most active trading hours down to less than once a...

Scientist, I often think you are full of ****, but these comments are on the money. :) Even one significant disconnection per week during active trading hours is one too many. Connection and platform reliability is a legitimate basis on which to judge a broker, and disconnections should not...

As a trader faced with similar connection issues, IB's actions in response to disconnections seem rather inadequate (i.e., you won't find me waiting for 30 seconds to see if things get better, and then letting it happen to me again before switching connections). It would obviously be in IB's...