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Actually I understand that GL Trader's quotes are slower than both IB and JTrader so ask around before assuming this to be true. metooxx seems to have stopped posting. You might send him a PM sammy. I can confirm that the eQuotes offered by the CME are slower than IB's data.

That is the crux of news trading. No matter how good your news service is there is always someone who gets it faster or who is able to act on it faster. Thus I interpret news based on price action. If the news comes out and big player X comes in with a big order - it will move the market...

Globex fee for a customer is 2.28 and NFA is $.12 IIRC. You should be able to negotiate down to a reasonable margin on top of the fees. To get the member globex rate which will lower commission charges under $2/RT you will either need to lease or buy a seat. This may also have negative tax...

Just to update anyone who was curious about what the data only subscription is like. I subscribed to the data only subscription ($10) for a month, and made every effort to gain access to the data. In a nutshell, the data only subscription is quotes in a browser (Websheet) that updates tick by...

Murray: Try looking up trading journal or just take a gander at the following to complete your search: http://www.elitetrader.com/vb/showthread.php?s=&threadid=4997&highlight=trading+journal

No idea here but I'm guessing that it may be derived from the inverse of the exponential growth phenomenon explained in the following article: (or something like that) http://www.ecofuture.org/pop/facts/exponential70.html

I'd say you have a chance because FAIK about half of coma victims recover.

http://www.othernet.org/

Is there an echo in here? (ok back to the Master's Tournament)

What empirical evidence do you have to support your claim that Hitman's journals draw new people (visitors) to Elite Trader? Just because the thread has a lot of views doesn't mean that the same people aren't checking in on it over and over, especially since each thread runs for a month...

The CPU readout on the NT task manager shows a snapshot of current CPU usage, including the % usage required by the task manager. When used in conjunction with the historical graph of CPU and memory / page file usage these can be very useful tools for discovering if an application is inefficient.

Regarding headaches - if you don't have a prior history of headaches and find you are getting headaches and/or lower back pain your monitors are probably too low. You should be able to sit up straight and look straight at them without tipping your head down. Regarding turning out the lights I...

LOL :D

Initial margin is the amount of money required to open a new trade. If you don't have this amount of money then you can open no new trades. Maintenance margin applies to trades that are open. Trades that are open that go below the maintenance margin amount will be closed by the broker or a...

Yeah it is really a numbers game. Eventually if you trade often enough (or stay in your positions long enough) you will be caught. That's why we have battery backups for our computers, backup brokers, pencil and paper...

As the commercials say, "Not Excactly" One of the main problems people are having is knowing what their position is. They put in an order and get no confirmation that it has been filled. 40 minutes later the bulletin comes through that they were filled. If you don't know your position then...

All online brokers have outages from time to time so get accounts at both and you will have a backup when the other one goes down. IB is as reliable as any of the others, it just has been having a rough spell the past few days. Just wait a bit and you will see the same things posted about...

What ones are we forgetting? PM me if you don't want to post.

How are they going to eat losses when the instruments their customers trade can move $200-$500 in an hour and IB is getting $5 less exchange fees per turn (in the case of futures)? Even at $50 per round turn IB could lose money in the long run acting as an insurance agent. The economics just...

Not getting charged is last on your mind. They run their orders through the same servers you run your orders through. So if you are down they are down. The only time calling them will help is if you are having a hardware problem with your modem or computer and IB's system is up.