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The term "arcade" is fairly recent on ET, but it comes up quite frequently. It is usually associated with the term "piker". Both term can be simply read as "I am a Big Swinging Dick (TM) and you're not" (although you're more likely to see that last part spelled "your not"). In short, if you...

The loonie... And there is a story that goes with it. Somewhere in the 80's, when the Canadian dollar coin was introduced, it was not supposed to be the loon design, but something else (can't remember what). But the Canadian Mint sent the dies to wherever they were supposed to go via a regular...

Another option... Try this: Computer Associates web site. You can virus-scan your box online. Takes about a half-hour or so. Also check out their spyware page via the link on the same page (see second link below). http://www3.ca.com/securityadvisor/virusinfo/scan.aspx...

I don't know if you trade a PDT account, but since you like to trade near or at the close, you need to be aware of what I call IB's "Cinderella"(TM) procedure for PDT account. In a nutshell, 15 minutes before the close (but based on experience--and maybe a slow clock--I'd say better make it...

Before someone else beats me to it... :-) "Those who can, do. Those who can't, teach."

That's what I like about ET. You can always be sure to get some solid reliable investment advice. :)

It's not clear what your problem is but if it's one of not been able to connect, you don't need extra "resources". You start TWS, go into the drop-down menu and enable dde (that's probably what you neglected to do), and then launch the spreadsheet. In the different sheets of the spreadsheet, you...

I got an 80GB and a 120GB Maxtor from OfficeMax last year, both 8MB cache and with the rebate setup that you have outlined (but not as good a price obviously). These are excellent drives, really fast. OM takes about 3-4 months or so to send the rebates but they're reliable in doing so (I...

I use IQFeed DDE (the Quote Tracker deal someone else alluded to earlier in this thread) and it's very accurate and reliable. I can compare somewhat accurately because I also use Money.Net and IB's quote feeds. Elvis

I'm not sure if PW is included with the Small business edition but you can find the answer easily: 1) Click on your Start menu button and navigate to the "programs" option. If Powerpoint has been pre-installed by Dell there will be an icon there named "Microsoft Powerpoint". 2) If you...

You probably forgot to check the "DDE" radio button in the TWS demo setup menu. Close and re-load the spreadsheet after you've done that. Elvis

How can you make 7 trades a day with a $5 K capital and the PDT rules? You know about the PDT rule, don't you? Maybe you mean that you trade in 5K chunks? But even then, if you had a sufficiently funded day-trading account you could trade $30+ stocks in 1000-1500 shares sizes (and that's very...

I'm a simple country boy, and so I wonder: did you first try the conditional orders sheet on IB's DDE sample spreadsheet and determined that it would not fullfill your needs? Otherwise, you should have a look at it. Pretty simple to set up your execution triggers with this. If you know a...

The guy wears a bow tie. 'nuff said...

This was somewhat discussed on another thread. The short answer is: just download the spreadsheet, log on to the demo version of TWS--which should come with something like 50K of buying power--make sure to activate the DDE option in TWS, and knock yourself out firing up orders from the...

With the kind of setup that you got, you should not worry too much about lacking resources, unless you run some kind of database-server farm :D This said, if what you are doing in verifying resource allocations is looking into the Windows Task Manager, the "Explorer.exe" that you see in...

But wouldn't that fly in the face of the rules that are in place to regulate short selling, since IB is essentially a retail firm? Elvis

Thanks for the clarification: I stand corrected. My info was second hand on this: as I have mentioned, I don't auto trade. Some people were complaining on one of IB's API boards about having to manually hit a confirm on each trade entry and I thought that it was standard. Elvis

Download and install IB's sample DDE spreadsheet and TWS and login to their demo. I don't believe that you need an account to do either of these things and their demo stuff is really useful. This should answer many of your questions, although when it comes to documentation it's rather light (as...

No sweat then. Check out OfficeMax and Staples. They're having RAM sales this week with mail-in rebates. RAM is cheap.