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Good one! The only thought that slightly lessens my enjoyment is that I am not quite certain whether I am laughing with you or at you.

That's what I thought. At least Globex tries to push off technical difficulties to Fridays and evenings. I don't want to name names, but there is a certain ECN that always has the first technical glitches of the day around 9:35 a.m.

An interesting opinion, especially coming from someone who chose TrendFader as his login. I think I will never understand what people mean when they say "trend" or "scalping".

By the same token you could ask why US residents do not enjoy the freedom every other individual in the world takes for granted, namely to be allowed to trade foreign futures and options. Or why if I send an order to buy an option to the AMEX I am not allowed to simultaneously send an order to...

Just out of curiosity, do they also do those things with 1-lot orders?

You might get the vote of a majority of programmers for this statement, but I wouldn't be so sure about that. Those same people will tell you MS Windows is not supposed to crash. The way Java is designed, every little modification can eat up a lot of CPU time. Look for example at TWS as it is...

It all depends on your frame of reference. If you have been trading for decades and spend $1000 a day in commissions, the exchange fees probably seem ridiculous to you, but if you busted your anus working at MCD for a couple of years to save up $25,000 so you can open a day trading account, I...

What's wrong with accommodating gamblers? I think you might have a hard time to find a business that is not inherently unethical according to your standards. For example, cigarette companies market to people under 30, the right age to become addicted, then they exploit the fact that their...

Could be because you are trying to go to http://onanda.com I hope you have not sent any real money there.

Has arca ever been an ECN? As far as I know, ARCA is a computer whose function is to generate fake bids and offers between $.02 and $.80 away from the actual bid/offer in order to confuse traders and routing algorithms.

This might not be the most popular view, but I would ask IB NOT to implement any of these bells and whistles. If you want the functionality you can do it through the API. Why inflate TWS itself with tons of features, megabytes, java classes? TWS is using enough of the CPU as it is.

Geez, have you looked at NTES lately? I wonder why there are no shares available to borrow... If you could short shares without borrowing, there would probably be 3 times as many shares currently short as there are shares outstanding.

Thanks for the tip. Would you happen to know if the bank will also tell you whether there is a stop payment on the check?

Ok, ok, I admit that not everybody who averages 1 pt per day can make 100000% per year. What I meant to say was, It is possible that someone makes more than 100000% in a year by averaging 1 point per day.

I'm afraid no mortal will ever know all the meanings of the word "spread".

Buying stocks during the day and holding over night is of course much riskier than pure day trading. That's why big brother here in the US has decided that only those who have $25000 or more in their trading account are allowed to minimize their risk by day trading. The smaller players have to...

It could be that those who deal in stocks don't have much need to discuss strategy with others, because it's really always the same: sell high, buy low, sell high, buy low, sell high, buy low, sell high Futures traders usually try to identify optimal entry and exit points and use ever...

My guess is they are too busy laughing all the way to the bank, because if they AVERAGE one point per contract per day, they will be able to make 100000% per year.

For most people probably IB's TWS.

But only because people prefer 327 monthly payments, 520 weekly payments, and the standard CBP or crippling balloon payment to earning money BEFORE they spend it. But it's true. When someone writes a bad check, the bank has no moral right to charge the innocent victim for it. Does the...