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Thanks everyone. I'm coding in C++. I was looking for mostly the message boards. Its just nice sometimes when your a lazy programmer to be able to lookup things on a message board/online for bits of sample code. Looks like the IB message board contains the most info, but I've been warned...

Does anyone know where I can find some decent documentation on IB's API. Or a message board resource or something...! I've been wasting a lot of my time with trial and error coding for the past few days... Any good resources would help out a lot.

What is your opinion on real estate in the Mid-west, or in places where RE wasn't part of the boom? Would any of you own property there? I own a small rental in KC, and from Zillow.com, it shows a pretty nice appreciation within the last year (not sure of how accurate it is...). But in...

They're obviously not that stupid. 100k or whatever they spent is worth the "advertising". And if you read the article... "Susquehanna did not make any job offers after the tournament, but each of the top nine finishers, who left with no less than $2,000, was briefly interviewed by...

What a RIP OFF! Youtube was only $1.65 Billion. As if an exchange could be worth almost 5 times that amount! What were they thinking.

A ratio of calls and puts at the closest strikes combined to make a an intially delta neutral combination? Wouldn't that act close enough to a straddle formed at a strike when the stock is at that strike?

Ah, this thread reminds me of when I was 17-21... I was basically just as filled with jealously and BS as everyone else. About that girl, let me give you the scoop. It doesn't fucking matter, its irrelevant to everything and anything.

I see. I use IB too, but I'm just trying to get a better understanding of how it all works... Now in the method where they execute the individual legs in attempt to get a better calendar, they obviously won't take the risk of not getting filled into thier own hands right? They won't risk...

Well, this is what I mean. Buy a calendar spread. Stock is trading at 50 Sell 50 call quoted at B1 - A1 (Let (B1+A1)/2 = Ave1) Buy 50 call quoted at B2 - A2 (Let (B2+A2)/2 = Ave2) The purchase price at: A2 - B1 would be the worst thing to do. Ave2 - Ave1, is what I do usually...

Is there any way to reduce slippage on combination orders? Does using different brokers provide varying results in terms of combo orders? Is it advantageous to leg into strategies in attempt to reduce slippage? I hate slippage.

Eh, it's just money... :D

Basically. Nothing is really random when you think about it. For example, the weather. Years ago (without the weather channel/technology) it seemed random. But now that we have some data we can predict the weather to a certain extent. With ALL the data, we could predict it with 100%...

I see, but the better question is: "up or down in the next 4 mo". There's been like what, 10 DAYS of crashes in the last 100 YEARS? Predicting one in a 4 month time frame is pretty slim. Actually, out of curiousity anyone know exactly how many crashes has there been since the inception of...

Your asking the wrong question. What if the market wasn't random at all? Then what would happen. Think about it.

WTF. What are you gonna do with these numbers? Calculate the EV?

Trimble, austinAPm, riskarb and others who have joined this contest... Just out of curiosity, what is your average monthly gain?

Give people a billion to one margin.

Anyone know any good places to play poker in Chicago within the loop? Seems like there are a lot of players on ET with the popularity of the poker/trading similarity threads...

That's a lot of random numbers you are pulling out of your ass...

1.91 to 2.68 is like a 40% increase.