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Exactly, and one of the best known periods of (state) terrorism is the one during the French revolution, and Robespierre is forever linked to this perverting of the state: http://www.encyclopedia.com/html/R/ReignT1er.asp http://www.encyclopedia.com/html/section/Robespie_ReignofTerror.asp...

Rearden, sure - just do some more carpet bombing, a few tens of millions of collateral civilan damage ... then I guess they'll be passified for good, just like the german civilians. With Japan - all it took was 2 bombs. Bush Sr. said a nuclear war is winnable - why should Jr. think any...

The cleric is reported (by CNN) as holding up in a mosque with a few thousand of his most militant followers, mostly armed. Today 12 US soldiers were bagged in the violent attempt to stem the uprising, and experts reported that Al-Sadr just has a 3-0-40% following of all the shiites in the...

Bonds might be a little risky until the next FOMC news regarding interest rates. The next month's employment data might further increase uncertainty of imminent rate hike if it shows a very good new jobs creation number - never mind the unemployment rate. :)

The growing elderly part of the population and the rising expenses they require - they live longer as well, is something most european countries now are trying to do something with. It's extremely unpopular - just see reports of protests all over europe this last weekend. In France, Chirac will...

As a nice side-effect, the continued conflicts in the middle east helps keeping the oil prices at new highs. So the administration is doing in the tax payers in double terms - both in sense of the military expenses and the oil prices. Not to forget the new generations of would-be-terrorists...

Probably makes a lot of sense taking your mind of trading for at least some part of the day if you find yourselves in a rut, losing your working capital. It probably gives a basis for some needed reflection, and perhaps better trades in the future. :)

I have to agree with the above posts. Margin requirements might even impose a mathematical limit after a losing streak. That's kind of a enforced risk management. Therefore one cannot logically generalize and say that trades are independent; one might make the conclusion specifying some other...

As far as I understand the protocol used by IB - it seemed to be FIX, or some enveloped FIX protocols (try using some TCP packet capturing program - e.g ethereal from http://www.ethereal.com/, or tcpdump(8) if you're running Linux/UNIX). The TWS application send FIX-heartbeats every now and...

Are the data provided for backtesting also including marketdepth/orderbook changes ? I'm doing studies on ES intraday with changes in marketdepth, and would be interested in a provider for historical intraday data which includes accurate timestamps and the frequent changes in...

Perhaps someone should have focused a little more on leadership during the nomination for the democrat's candidate. It might just be that Wesley Clark was a good alternative when it comes to running things. At least he doesn't hate reading, staff meetings etc. (i.e hate working in...

You can see the shores of St.Martin/St.Maarten - the french/dutch split island - from Anguilla any day. On the dutch side there are a lot of hotels with a many US tourists and some casinos. Then a little further you have St.Barths with more jet-setters. If you sail/fly a little away you have...

I hope the conspiracy-lovers out there understands the technical implications of trying to prove any early realease of the employment numbers ... There has to be an independent and reliable observer who can guarantee that it received/accessed the information early. That involves syncronized...

Yes, Sealand is a special case, I think I remember they would even install some defensive weapons on that old piece of scrap. Then there's the World of Seas ship - and better still: we have Anguilla - probably the only really viable Libertarian alternative in the world. Of the alternatives in...

One day I had a similar problem - when trying to login the TWS would just retry logins ad nauseaum. Then I typed in a wrong password just as a longshot, and thereafter the correct login went smoothly. I tried entering 20+ logins before that; it could be a coincidence, but who knows. €0.02 :)

My TWS was just perfect, while quote.com as always was a laggard. I think there has been a lot of suggestions about configuration/page files (.ly files?) causing problems. Perhaps you have to look into that, allthough one can never rule out problems rising from different customer subscriptions...

Of course they wrote it beforehand, as a template it's pretty easy; then with several templates it's pretty easy to just get the thing out in a couple of seconds. Elementary... :)

Pundits on Bloomberg say the manufacturer numbers are the ones that really matters today, let's see what markets do, however.

Actually, China is the second largest importer/consumer of oil - they recently surpassed Japan, and this is a heavy contributor to the increase in prices of late as reported on Bloomberg TV yesterday. They're also the largest consumer of copper - because of the blooming industry over there. :)

Just before the last hour of trading, comes the spike - like yesterday - to shake out nervous traders/stoplosses just above today's highs, and set up for some slides I presume.