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Here's the proposition. I've had this sector on buy alert for months waiting for a pull back, namely the higher dividend yielding banks, Bac, Wfc, Wb. From old Fdic and Occ information, The top five dealer banks have about 90% of the entire banking derivatives exposure. But still don't...

Thanks Sponger for your input. Much appreciated. Reading the year end Sec 10k filing for one of the Broker Dealer banks in the OP list. Interesting to note this bank increased the total derivatives portfolio 30% in 2006 over 2005. The total credit derivative portfolio exposure was 27...

I would like to learn from someone who has knowledge of the topic, how they view the current banking sector risk for a longer term investment hold, in light of the rapidly expanding derivative risk situation. Reading the online Fdic and Occ literature I do not easily understand the assessment in...

What are you looking to do? Retail or Prop? Retail account: 4:1 Other than short term negative press, how is the effect on Assent any different than on the other firms- Morgan Stanley, BA, UBS?

Other than the historical backfill last bar problem, and being a little sluggish at times when changing functions, I've been satisfied with QT with IQ feed- a great combination. I find the multi portfolio features and trend line alerts particularly useful.

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Prints on Anvil and Tws messed up. Looks like a market data feed problem? Crossed quotes on Anvil seem to have settled down.

Don't know if this is your issue, but noticed Tws doing the same thing when there were more than several Tws 1-3 min charts open and especially noticeable when opening a new window in Tws. When the number of charts and open windows were cut down, the Cpu usage lessened. The end solution was...

I found Irs topic 429 helpful. http://www.irs.gov/taxtopics/tc429.html

Ok I see what you're saying now-the last bar backfill

Don't know what's going on with your backfill, but since abandoning Ib data and going with IQ feed, it's been extremely reliable. Btw there is a discount through QT for IQ, 26 per month with Nyse, Nasdq data fees.

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More recent breakouts, some good some not so good. http://www.amazingstocks.com/REPORT/aRESISTANCE_BREAKOUT.html

Here's an example of a recent breakout (in retrospect)

Thanks Bigbrent, Appreciate your observations on breakout/breakdown trades. It would be helpful if this discussion were to continue: 1. How to identify/scan or find stocks prior to breakout and have them on a watch list of potential candidates. 2. What conditions the trader would want...

Thanks for the help guys. Moving the dll to a dummy folder seems to have worked. Hopefully will prevent the problems from recurring. So much for Norton. Hope this is the last issue. Appreciate you all taking the time to help.

Months after uninstalling Norton Systems works, numerous Symantec folders remained on the computer. I think I have most of those fixed by now. However, there is a remaining dll which is creating persistent and annoying error messages when some applications are loaded. The message is "an...

Assent/Anvil-excellent fast fills suitable for scalping, slippage only attributable to market itself or specialist, no delayed openings, I never experienced an outage, extremely rare- stuck prints or quotes. Charts-Quote Tracker with IQ feed- reliable,accurate, reasonably priced. Anvil also...

Switched to IQ feed with Quote Tracker charts. $20 per month through QT, plus $3. each for Nyse and Nasdaq data fees. A baragain if you need charts on the weekend.