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You can use 2.2v, the dell MB will just run it at 1.8v 800MHz. (2.2v means it can run higher than the standard 1.8v but it still must work correctly at 1.8v, 2.2v just gives you room to overclock.) As far as I know, if you're mixing 667Mhz with 800Mhz, it will all run at 667Mhz. $800 for...

The standard for 800Mhz (PC6400) DDR 2 ram is: 5-5-5-18, cas 5, 1.8v Lower cas numbers and higher voltages are good for overclockers.

I'm pretty sure that command center is free for any size account. You get free level 1 quotes from TDA, you have to pay for level 2 quotes under a certain balance. TDA is fine for a retail brokerage. I like command center more than TWS in some ways. That being said, I am finding that IB...

I would not draw any conclusion based on price action alone. I would consider the context of the price action too.

Have you never seen the price of a company drop even though the company has great earnings and is solid? When a sector gets hammered even the strong are probably going to take a hit too. There are a lot of reasons why people might want to take their money out of IB stock even if that reason...

IB the brokerage is most likely fine and whatever securities you own are not going to be effected by IB. We probably only have to worry about cash as it is only insured to 100K by the SIPC and is held at an external bank. If that bank is not liquid there could be problems. In general though...

A response in one of the other IB threads said IB holds their cash at Citi, if this is correct, putting your money in IB is the same as leaving it in Citi.

The real question is which bank is holding the cash for IB? If that bank goes belly up than IB won't be able to get customer cash. IB the brokerage might be strong but they do not hold the cash directly as far as I know. Does anyone know where the cash is being held?

Cool, good news. I'm going to enjoy having 8gigs of ram on this machine. Thanks guys.

Hi, Has anyone tried TWS on a 64bit version of Vista? In theory it should be fine as it runs on Java but it would be nice to hear from someone else who runs it successfully. Thanks.

..my mistake...that does look to be a good hedge. I was thinking about the hedge cost (there must be a fee somewhere) and of course it is in the borrowing interest. (Your AUD cash might earn offsetting interest if it's not working but why not put it to work too.) What are the margin limits...

In NinjaTrader, you can have multiple named workspaces open at the same time and switch between them using SHIFT-F3.

Shorting the dollar isn't automatically a 'hedge' because you haven't specified against what. It has to be against something that has a high movement correlation. If he shorts $100K dollars and then the dollar rises 3% he'll have to cover with $103K. The dollar performance may or may not be...

What is the benefit of going bundled with IB vs going unbundled? As in, why would anyone pay the bundled price if unbundled is less unless there are some other gotchas. Is it that it can cost more unbundled in certain cases? (removing liquidity, cancelling orders, etc.)

NinjaTrader ray tells me that you can run one strategy against multiple instruments instead of running multiple strategies against one instrument each(which you can do too). My mistake (from limited experience with NT). Sky, I see that you can add multiple strats to one workspace in OQ...

NinjaTrader can run as many strategies as you want (or your computer can handle). The main downside there is that each strategy runs on one instrument, but you can have as many strategies as you want, it's just annoying to have to manually start 100 strategies (if you want to run against 100...

Hmm, that is interesting and makes sense if they charge between the closing dates (which does make sense that they would). What about if you only buy/sell on the same day and never hold overnight? As far as I can tell, settlements happen at 1 day granularity minimum so you would open/close...

Thanks for the quick answer. It's not easy to find answers on the IB website. On a related note, it appears that they charge 3.85% for money between 100K and 1million currently which isn't bad at all if you want to hang onto an equity.

Hi everyone, Does anyone know when IB starts charging interest on margin money? At TD Ameritrade (for example) interest begins accruing when the stock settles. So if you daytrade and never own a stock through settlement, you'll never pay interest on margin money. You effectively get 4:1...

I would be happy at 'independence level 1' which would be around $2million net worth for me (assuming that a sustainable income of at least $400K/yr is possible on $2million). Money above that level would let me buy more toys (or give more away) but otherwise I don't think it would generate...