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Bitstream, what do you mean. All charts show the SPX 1950-today (sorry for removed scales), the blue line is an abolute candle (useless on that time scale, only for comparison purposes), the white lines are log(price) and the gray line on the second chart is a normalized log(price)

Another chart SPX 1950-today, the gray line is normalized, removing the S&P "yield" of about 8%/year from the chart.

Hello Pabst, I attached a log chart SPX from 1950-today, actually the price action was pretty constant over all the period. Compared to the 70's bear market, the 87 and 89 crashes are completely a non-event, especially because both were followed by a large up-move soon over the following...

Possible. Do you have any information how program trading changed the IBanks methods during this time ? However, I still have doubts and think it might be correlated to something completely different. Another thing I noted when tampering with the algo: It seems the phenomenon occurred as...

Last night I had some serious talk to a systems programmer who works with neural networks for >15years. He did research on the markets for the first time in his life over the last 6 months and I have to admit he came up with great ideas & results. He presented me this phenomenon: The...

I tried them via little code snippets and, unfortunately, cannot say many good things about it. (Except for it's free) Data quality was horrible (at least when I tried, they promised to fix it), also they claim they have data 10-15 yrs back but I could not get ANY quotes data before 2003 or...

COMEX will move their products electronic by this year's end (very likely > 75%). Also, there is no longer a need for trading comex futures products (except Copper). CBOT metal futures have captured a market share of about 50% currently and are expanding. Also, CBOT will likely introduce a...

IB's commissions for high volume are much in line with the "industry standard". Of course you can go cheaper, but not significantly. In my opinion it is useless to go for these extra $.05, it is much better to look for a lower turnover rate or different opportunities. The only thing...

Congratulations on your success with your new metals complex. Now you should consider more contracts, namely Aluminium, Copper, Palladium and Platinum.

Recent TWS software will not run with -Xmx parameter below 130-140MiB - at least not when I tried (build 854 or so). It will hang on the logon->splash screen. I already made clear in recent posts/polls that, in my opinion, Java is (by all means) not an appropriate computing platform.

Bitstream s busy 2 maintn other inet forums. Managagin over 10k of posts and a portfolio of 20 aliases not that e-z, friend.

joey - correctamundo

agree with 2cents. to make the long pdf short - IB had a rogue advisor customer who probably scammed/cannibalized his customers; the total nominal amount was $7mln, the damage to advisor's customers probably a fraction of this the doc states the max penalty - 250.000 USD, small change for...

Do a search, there is a large thread about this. Bottom line - and my opinion: the offering is no good at all. DB is backing your assets, but I think while DB is your counterparty on paper, you actually trade with FXCM and their quotes, like many other bucketshops.

I had a look at the indicators a few years ago when I still tried to work with data smoothers, this stuff is marketing-hyped. There are open-sourced algorithms that come close or equal sometimes, if you are not a profitable trader, KEEP your MONEY, you won't be profitable with a JMA indicator...

crazy, I didn't see the old forms (rev 2000). It would be a benefit for all those affected if you could list the changes you noticed. A possibility that just came to my mind is: a) not to trade on May15 b) on May16: Do this: BUY 1 STK LU MKT; SELL 1 STK LU MKT c) wait for May16...

Unfortunately, this seems to develop into a complex matter: I thought I had "upgraded" my W-8 correctly but now I found out it didn't work for some reason. I must have missed a point or two. It appears my W8 is still invalid. IB will probably add detailed instructions within the next...

sorry but - bump.

Please let me bring down things here to the central question: Assumptions: - IB accountholder - a nonresident alien (let's assume an EU-citizen) - a valid W-8 has been filed. In the above situation, in the past, there were only backup withholdings on dividends (form 1042S). There was...

"... you still have not completed a revised W-8 form for the US IRS. Not completing this form by May 15th will subject you to withholdings on dividends at 30% instead of the lower treaty rate of your country. In addition, if we do not have an old W-8 on file that was completed within the last...