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LOL...want to check out the evidence of "dumb money" in the markets. Heard about this the other day... http://www.businessinsider.com/investors-buy-nestor-not-nest-2014-1

Keep a monumental sum of $30 set aside in cash at all times and "boom!", no more problem. If that's a substantial portion of your account and can't be spared, then Lord help you...

Why not just post a blotter summary/trade summary from your account once a week?

I think options are the preferred way to go: 1) If you are wrong about the turn around, you lose money. But you lose less than an inverse and your losses are capped at the premium. In addition, your losses slow the further you move from your PUT strike. An inverse ETF continues to lose in...

I've been using the simulation account (NT + CQG) for some time now and it's worked quite well. Easy as pie to get it going.

I've heard the same thing, but a couple of the "full-package" installers such as WAMP (Windows) and LAMP (Linux) can make the process pretty painless and that's what I used to install it. There's a lot of other stuff in there such as Apache and MyP2P, but nothing says you have to use it...

Coursera has some stuff as well: https://www.coursera.org/course/mathematicalmethods https://www.coursera.org/course/assetpricing

It's been awhile since I've messed with the IB API, but I remember these type of problems can be frustrating. Have you tried on both paper and demo account? Could be differences, but probably not. What if you open a position on the demo account for the security you are looking for and then...

Harold Camping called and said he'd like his algebra textbook back.

I'm not familiar with that particular error, but there are a couple of things you can try. It's been about 2 years since I've worked with the API, so I may be reaching here... 1) Try playing around with reqContractDetails for your particular contract. You might be able to pull some info from...

One new product: http://www.theonion.com/articles/apple-unveils-panicked-ideafree-man-at-launch-even,33814/

I'm sure plenty of people would love to be "struggling" like they are.

How about a waiting period for people to post? Or maybe a "viewing requirement" (you need to look at 20 entries before you can post). This would get rid of those annoying "join and spam" types with minimal impact on somebody who wants to join.

LOL...I merely point out what your email said a few emails ago... 10%, 6-8 days, 55 years and "about nothing has changed." Anyway, I'll let you get back to your philanthropic pursuits such as working on your hydromatic "Greased Lightning"

Why not bail out the rest of the universe? You must have on the order of infinity dollars about now, so what's a few GDP among world leaders?

No need...just print out that quote on a page and fire it up. It's like peyote * crack to the LSD power.

What would lead you to assume that? Ballmer is still at the helm. Windows 8 has met with a sort of: "eh?" They seem to be a day late and a dollar short to pretty much every thing they try.

You might want to look at Deep-in-the-money (DITM) options as a proxy. You can get a decent amount of leverage and almost completely eliminate time decay. One drawback is that usually the spread can be a bit hefty, but if you are longer term, you can work your fills a bit (if you are trading...

Value Averaging by Edelson. Mebane Faber's stuff is pretty interesting. He's got a book (Ivy Portfolio), but you can get the majority of his methods by reading his online paper.

So all your info is based upon what you "read" online and that was done AFTER you tried to open an account? LOL. Of course you have extensive first-hand experience that IB trades against their clients and "weasels" out of stop orders? You're probably correct, though, I'd guess they don't want...