Guilty: I have cut back on my trading and feel better physically but still have the weekend "DT's" and I made my first trade 41 years ago. I doubt I'll get over it any time soon.
I'm really enjoying this thread. It's just like the old days when there was a permanent standing thread entitled DateK Sucks. Almost feels as though there's a raging bull coming on.
....as I recall, Preferred's software had a great audit trail. You could (can) see the order, modifications, cancellations, confirmations, all timestamped. So it's sure possible to have it that way.
Well while we are wishing..........I'd like to see a way to choose two or more positions and be able to "net" them in real time.
Example: long stock, long put, short call or any other combination, and have a real time read out of P/L on that combo.
Thought I'd get a response like that. That's ok though. I'm coming from an economic perspective here. I realize there would be social issues. A world class economist made this same argument several years back. I can't recall his name but he made his point quite well. Long before the PC...
Hear Hear; QQQBALL for Treasury Secretary.
I actually believe that ONLY the lowest economic group should be taxed. They produce nothing and consume resources at a tremendous rate. IMHO
I wish I could do that but I'm back home now and using my own machine without problems.
However, knowing that I would be using a different machine during Christmas travels I burned a copy of my TWS build 783.0 and Java version SE v.1.4.0_01 and took it with me and installed it on the...