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    IB customers lose 68m on Spore stocks

    Speculating - should really have put a ? at the end - some stuff on the web. http://mforum2.cari.com.my/forum.php?mod=viewthread&tid=760359
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    IB customers lose 68m on Spore stocks

    Malaysian syndicates
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    Anyone got feedback on UK broker Berkeley Futures (London)

    They've been around since at least 1994 - that's all I know about them.
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    Nison candlestick scanner

    Should have written: 50:50 directional indicators :p
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    Nison candlestick scanner

    Biggest problem with learning candlestick patterns is the difficulty unlearning them after you find how useless they are. A candlestick chart serves as a visual aid in identifying supply and demand but the individual patterns seem to me to be low probability directional indicators.
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    Trend Following Hedge Funds Hurt by Fed

    Basically their systems don't work except in the kind of markets where even moving average crossovers appear to work - or in other words they don't really know ho to trade.
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    TWS - 5yr limit for chart data eliminated

    IB should consider buying some historical data for former Osaka and JASDAQ stocks now under TSE - charts only have a short period from when they came under TSE - basically useless.
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    tokyo traders

    Charting/data alternative to eSignal is Metastock Xenith - basically the Reuters Eikon with surprisingly little functionality removed. Fabulous deal for USD150/month non pro/1 region. Nothing below institutuional price point i.e. BBG can compare - even come close. Has Japan Data 2 month free...
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    Pictures of your trading stations

    Told you so :D
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    Fundemental Based Screener

    This is comparable with CapitalIQ and Bloomberg for screening and USD25/month.................. https://screener.co/ No affiliation - just came across it and could not believe the capabilities vs price - in particular fundamentals on stocks listed on seemingly all global exchanges so...
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    Broker with Good Spread of International Markets

    Found this screener - https://screener.co/ comparable with IQ and Bloomberg for making lists of stocks
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    Yahoo data download restrictions? "Error -- Too many web page retrievals"

    Thx for responses - reason I am using Yahoo is to get data for foreign stocks. Limit turned out to be a application not yahoo limit. Next question Does anyone know how to get free float* field from the GOOGLE Finance - it is an optional field in their screener ? I need a list of all...
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    Yahoo data download restrictions? "Error -- Too many web page retrievals"

    I am using the data add in from here http://finance.groups.yahoo.com/group/smf_addin/ and so can't really tweak it. In terms of speed I was click and drag filling 500 cells at a time with a download script and it takes a few seconds for each and several minutes for 500 - seems to...
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    Yahoo data download restrictions? "Error -- Too many web page retrievals"

    I got this message "Error -- Too many web page retrievals" while attempting to download 3400 names using the yahoo code - occurred at row 989 - may have done test downloads. First time I have done a big download in years and never see before so assume it is a fairly recent restruiction...
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    Premium Sellers vs. Option Buyers

    I can better that :D I was short in 2007 using [bought not sold] long dated options [actually LEAPS] and ended up making no money.
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    Premium Sellers vs. Option Buyers

    +2
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    Premium Sellers vs. Option Buyers

    Or to put it another way, you have to ask what are you REALLY trading? (another question is are you actually trading the same position with multiple correlated instruments that only seem to be different) "you are more likely then not to not be successful if your strategy seeks out small...
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    Netherlands is closing 19 prisons due to a serious prisoner shortage

    Positive would be the huge savings from no more FAT [TO THE POINT OF OBSCENELY OBESE] pensions and equipment contracts for all the G men involved in the never ending war negative would be a large number of people currently paying the bills by selling drugs would have to find something else to...
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    Why does Interactive Brokers mostly ignore their own Future Poll?

    Bump. Nothing has changed it seems.
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