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gary, I like that!... I should add the above to my list of rules! :)

What makes trading a system so hard?! I am sure some of you have faced this issue at some point in your trading careers! Assuming you have a profitable system for intraday trading. Have you ever felt like some invisible hands are holding you back and preventing you from taking your...

YM spread and liquidity has been getting much better lately. I think it is a lot more tradable than it used to be...

I think yesterday GS CEO said something like 15% of the employees do 80% of the work at the firm .. he later apologized! :eek:

IB: To all traders Tue Feb 4 16:45:53 2003 EST Globex Trading Update Globex has just notified us they are breaking all trades in ESH3 executing above 860.00 between 16:00 and 16:15 EST. ====================================================

1contract, These death spikes used to happen more often up to a couple of years ago..fwiw

Another lesson to always have physical stops in place while in a trade! :cool:

May God Bless Their Souls... :(

....... financial media and CNBC and their cheerleading during the bubble!! The human psychology doesn't change, they will do it again when/if they get another chance imo

Do you watch CNBC, Bloomberg, CNNfn (or other financial TV stations) while trading? Do you find it helpful or harmful to your trading? I thought a new discussion and opinion poll on this subject may be useful to everyone.

Well, it is "winter" in the financial world... and some think this winter will last until 2010 !!? :eek:

For the moment things maybe chugging along in the asset back securities markets... but eventually the credit bubble and the mortgage finance bubble will catch up with the financial markets and some severe financial dislocations maybe inevitable....

Eurex vows to launch US exchange By Jeremy Grant in Chicago FT.com Published: January 10 2003 0:29 | Last Updated: January 10 2003 0:29 Eurex, the German-Swiss derivatives exchange, on Thursday night said it would launch a derivatives exchange in the US in an immediate response to...

It would not be a bad idea to cancel all the open orders before the close or shutting down TWS, that way any open orders that may be sitting out there but would be cancelled.

IB is probably one of the best brokers out there... I have been using IB for several years now and have no complains gotta give credit where it is due :cool:

I think Jim Roger’s article only scratches the surface on this issue! I also think the interest rates should be set by the markets themselves and based on supply and demand (how it used to be). In my opinion it is possible that the present monetary policy will result in some severe...

Thank you all for your input, it is obvious there are some experienced traders on this board, some of what was said on this thread come after many years of trading IMO In a way, every single response makes sense! Maybe all those issues are somehow related to one another and that is what...

I am sure this subject has been discussed many times in the past and also in different threads, but I thought it would be interesting to discuss it again as trader’s input on the subject should always be helpful to all. Whether you are currently losing money or have losing periods, or...

I have been a lurker for a long time and just registered to post my comment in defense of IB! I just felt like I owe them at least this much after all! I have been using IB since 1999 on a daily basis; my trading volume is relatively high. After tens of thousands of trades the instantaneous...