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1 pip today in EUR. Can't complain about that! :cool:

China won't revalue until it is patently clear to the whole world that China does not jump when Snow or US Senators say jump. The more they try the more they delay it.

Use the SP1 firewall and a router. As I understand it MS firewall is fine for blocking incoming but does not block outgoing at all. Not going to tempt fate by saying here that I have had no problems. :). Had problems previously with W2k and msblast.exe. Tried Zonealarm and got driven...

Nope, exactly what I have noticed. Things are a bit choppy but spread was a steady 2 pips before under much choppier conditions.

I note that you specified delayed but you can plot realtime data from IB with Sierrachart. Lots of bad ticks in SJB data though

Make sure you have a mixing sound card if you use audio alerts -otherwise one blocks another.

Also some of us trade things offered by IB that have very limited availability through the usual charting or backfill suppliers e.g TOPIX or HSI or will be able to backfill things like IPE crude for the period when we are asleep but it is still trading. As Hoi has pointed out being able to...

Pay attention to overall market conditions - Paradoxically while overall market breakouts are made up of iindividual stocks breaking out from consolidation buying breakouts while the overall market is consolidating has a higher failure rate - you can skew the win:failure rate by buying...

Holmes Re: "I am seeing when the market manipulators play their game and then I pitch my game accordingly. During the development of the trade I may adjust my stop strategy, profit taking strategy, targets etc. Nothing is static, it is all dynamic." I agree that the thing to do...

I feel your comment 'baloney' is inappropriate. Others have problems that I have not personally experienced but I do not think they are talking 'baloney' Blowing through stops is one of the issues. As for the others there have been enough posts form myself and others pointing out a) the...

This is a welcome feature but there are multiple serious problems being reported by numerous people on this board I suggest someone at IB does something about those too. For now I have pretty much given up on TWS/IB due to multiple issues all confirmed by other users. Addresss these issues...

Let's simplify this. This view has everything to do with getting M&A advisory and underwriting business and very little to do with oil supply and demand and reserves.

Hmmm I can identify with this Dont trade the YM but am very familiar with being stopped out by one tick (and maybe just one print) in HSI but not in other markets. Does not seem to make any difference where stop is placed - I have long observed that HSI stop runs always penetrate obvious S/R...

Futures tends to move in response to someone pulling a bid/offer and no one replacing it rather than actually moving it which is what Hotspot and IB do. The futures certainly jiggle 1-2 pips around ahead of the cash but if the futures move away from the cash they move right back unless the cash...

I found market orders to be unuseable with IB and stopped using them due to huge slippage due to the slowness - I am sure it was due to slowness not due to thinness - same applies to 'reverse' function on front ends - use limit or STOP MKT which are OK.

Agree, Good thing about FX futures is that bids/offers seem posted purely following the cash which is made up of multiple (multiple) market makers so more difficult to play airpocket games. Moves in response to bids/offers being pulled/added in response to cash rather than chewed through by...

Another reason for the volatility is that there are only around 30 stocks in the index and the index in turn is really dominated by a handful of large caps or really maybe just 1 - HSBC (0005.HK).

From my observations, yes. Easily done in the liquidity airpockets between institutional levels as it is very thin relative to balance sheets of IB's and hedge funds. We have our own 'Flipper' who I call 'Mr 50' as he uses around 50 contracts (A 50 clip! , gosh I bet he gets all the girls!) to...

On front ends you have to use a ladder and my experience is that only Button trader was able to cope with the speed and range of some of the moves. Also helpful to have the auto strategy capabilities - this is a market where an auto trailing stop can make more sense than acting manually...

Every single calendar month. Front/active month is the current month. People usually don't start meaningfully rolling till 3 days before and most goes through on the morning of the roll (roll is morning of day before last business day of the month). Take the three days off if volume/the tape is...