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My impression, and experience with them, is that it is not randomly generated, rather it's market price +/- an offset. Anyway, for my purpose it's useful. Your mileage may vary...

No, thanks. :-)

Demo. In the IB Demo platform it is tradable, usually 23.5 hours/day, 7days a week. It's good for testing trading strategies and also testing program trading using the IB API. But as said several times: the prices are with some offsets, ie. not real prices.

Today I did my first ever Futures trade (ES, that's S&P500 E-mini) and after many hours holding made an unbelievable profit of $7.70 !!! Wow! :-) I had bought just for fun only 1 qty of it, but then I saw that the multiplier is 50 :-), so my stake was about $50k... Oh boy, I think such...

One wonders why you are so concerned about me? :-) I'm a multitalent if you want: I'm developing and trading and posting bug reports and criticizing what I don't like in the "system". Do you have a problem with this? And, if you want see my API app in action just let me know and I can post...

Here are the strategic trades I made so far. The positions (there are two for the same underlying) are still open (times are in CET): Underlying SecurityType Expiry Strike Put/Call Action Quantity Price Time Date Exch. CBY OPT JAN10 45 Call SLD 10 13 09:59:55 20091220 ISE CBY OPT JAN10 60...

I explained my reasons in two other postings. Here they are:

I'm aware of that. You tell me nothing new. Read the initial posting of this thread. It is testing only of all the components mentioned some posting ago, nothing more.

Again, the first trade today I opened a few minutes ago is my old friend CBY :-)

No, your own arguments suffice to show all the people here who the retarded is.

You just demonstrated your lack of math and logic skills. The profit is made by the traders, not by someone like you.

I have many times been asked why I trade in a Demo account, here's an example from another thread, and my reasoning: Some people don't know what an API is. API stands for "Application Programming Interface". It is an interface library to connect to the broker or to the exchange via a...

You are maybe a manager of some funds, but not a trader. If you could make money by trading then you would be a trader, but since you can't make money by trading you are a manager. It's so easy :-) Every career has a starting point. I'm in that stage right now. And I don't need to be...

This is old news, that thread is closed long ago. Just tell me (and us all here) of what aliases and of which papertrading friends you talk. I'm not aware of any of them, so I would say you are throwing dirt here to discredit me. This tells a lot about yourself...

To danger66 and TraderZones: let me attest to you that you both don't understand anything of real trading. Even if someone would present you his strategy on a silver-bullet you wouldn't understand it. You lack math skills, probability skills etc. Here is a typical trading day of mine with my...

And here are the trades: there were only 3 trades:

Here's the result: Profit: $42155 (+8.43%)

Ok, I opened my first weekend trades today: CBY (my old UK friend :-) and PFE But I won't tell ya the directions :-)

I think I saw a setting for this, but can't remember the details. Try right-click on the header... or maybe it was in the Config settings... Sorry, can't help. But yes, it's fact that the TWS platform still has some bugs. Here's another possible bug, although a minor one: How can I...

You all talk of opening an account, but my posting was about a bug in the newest and latest version of the TWS platform software. The software is the same software, whether you have a demo acct, a papertrading acct, or a real acct. Isn't it?