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Thank you. That's exactly what I meant. The example I brought up was meant to illustrate this point only. I jumped away from the dog instead of kicking it because I didn't want to hurt the innocent being. That should give you a clue that I was not primarily complaining about the infraction...

It's not the USA that I hate, it's the lack of refinement in the personality of the average born American citizen. I thought Americans would be the first ones to understand this, but my mistake was to assume that the offspring of those who built this country are not necessarilly endowed with...

That's what I meant. Politically, the US is approximately at the level of development where Germany and Italy were in the 1930s, I'm just hoping they don't have to learn the hard way. But if the alternative would be taking over the world, maybe losing a war does not sound too bad an...

Thanks for all the advice. By the way, I ran my numbers for 2002 again, and now it looks like I am paying about $40 too much, but I just can't find the mistake I made this time. However, at least I can look forward to an audit (if it should happen), because after all is said and done, I...

I noticed that globex orders get cancelled when the server restarts some time around midnight Eastern. But if I am not mistaken, they also get cancelled immediately after 4:15 Eastern. However, I might be wrong, or maybe I have observed a random glitch.

OK This is ridiculous! I just found out that in the literally thousands of transactions on my 2002 tax statement I made a mistake. I am putting a $230 check to the Treasury in the mail as we speak. Unfortunately, I don't mark to market, and this year I will have ten times more transactions...

I used to do something like that. Maxed out my CPU, had decent results, but I eventually discovered that I have a greater edge simply looking at the charts and using my brain.

Speaking of IB quotes, has anyone ever noticed that if you have a line for MMM SMART and one for MMM NYSE on your active TWS page, sometimes every trade gets reported a penny or a couple of cents higher or lower on the NYSE line than on the SMART line? The only way to fix this problem is to...

Where do I mail the check?

Now that's humanity at its finest! Anyhoo, mark1, you seem to be moving around quite a bit. Could it have anything to do with taxes? That might be an important consideration as well.

That's a good one as well. You might also want to take a look at Carinthia.

Unfortunately, day traders are rarely among the wealthiest people.

That's a good one to put on top of your monitor as a prime directive for trading.

It's really how you define "civilized". If you define the most civilized humans to be the ones whose individual thought processes and behavior are most different from other apes', the US is definitely not the most civilized country. But if you measure the degree of civilization by the amount...

I agree on all counts. That's why I left Europe and came here in the first place. Plus, you forgot to mention that smoking is not only allowed, but seems to be encouraged in most public buildings.

Very interesting list. I grew up in Vienna, and it is an exceedingly interesting place. The tap water is far better than most any bottled water, the city itself is big enough to offer almost anything your heart desires, yet small and well organized enough for your teenage daughters to walk any...

I like that approach! People here just have no clue, no culture, and no decency. Yesteday I was attacked on the beach by a tiny dog. FYI, it is illegal in this county to bring an animal onto any public beach, and it is illegal to not have direct control over your animal if it is not on your...

No. During expiration week stocks have no correlation at all with stock index futures. We call this the "quadruple witching divergence paradox". The most probable explanation is that all arbs take the week off in order to reporgram their systems for the new expiration month.

I solved this problem before it arose: I never got "open" book.

If I remember correctly you get 3 daytrades per 5 business days. But anyhoo, if you're the kind of person who doesn't mind spending $70 per month for Level2 and $20 mor per month for a trading platform, yet you want the cheapest commissions, you should seriously consider trading futures...