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    Interactive Brokers now restricting use of practice and live account at once

    I agree ... this is in the penny wise, pound foolish category. Stopping the practice account while running a live session slows testing down thus slowing the arrival of new revenue for IB. Come on guys, surely this is an oversight by someone who didn't see the consequences of their cost...
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    Firefox 4

    Can you give us some examples of sites that have font rendering problems. I use chrome and fox fairly interchangeably and don't notice an issue so I'd be interested to see it.
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    I'm going to sue

    These conversations do make people look like fuckwits though. Before you sue you might read this NYT article: http://www.nytimes.com/2011/04/05/health/05radiation.html?pagewanted=2&_r=1 You might also consider that most of the oceanic problem is iodine isotopes. Then you might look up...
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    Firefox 4

    Slightly less. And Pale Moon uses slightly less still (less rubbish included). Funnily enough, even though I like Pale Moon, I am sticking with Chrome 10.0. I suspect pages rendering faster is no longer an issue. What I like about chrome is: - the new tabs page is clear and easy to...
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    Firefox 4

    Agreed. It is faster.
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    Best Software for short term trading

    Sierra Chart allows you to program trading systems for a range of brokers including IB (interactive brokers). I use the ACSIL (C++ like) programming interface but there is also a Worksheet (excel like) interface that many others seem to use happily. That way you can work at a level...
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    Insane fills on HSI

    You trade this months contract until the 2nd to last business day of the month. Thats the day volume swings and although you can trade the old contract in the morning of that day it has become lighter and by afternoon it almost stops moving. The simulator fills are probably rubbish. The...
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    J P Morgan Wants $5 ATM Charge

    If its true then just change banks at least for your basic banking.
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    Another earthquake off of Japan

    That's only true if its close to something. And even then it would be a generalization. The Chch quake at 6.5 did a lot more damage than the prior one at 7 primarily because it was very close to the city. But it also had a different movement pattern ... almost vertical ... which probably...
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    BREAKING NEWS: NUCLEAR ACCIDENT JUST UPGRADED TO LEVEL 6, out of 7.

    I suspect that magnitude 9 for multiple minutes translates into a huge motion in the sea floor which is what generates the wave pulse. I'm guessing that no-one expected it. Kind of like whatever brings this market rise to a halt - obvious only in hindsight.
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    Best fan cooling

    I went with a slow room fan at one point when my rig was in a separate closet. Then I moved it under the table. It's 3 inches from a wall so I have the side off. I have a big heatsink on both the video card and the cpu. And a couple of Noctua near silent fans mounted on string slung...
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    Is trading Gambling or not .."What say You" Vote here.

    Only in the statistical sense.
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    Charting Software for ASCII data

    Also Sierra Chart will convert ASCII to its native compressed format.
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    Is trading Gambling or not .."What say You" Vote here.

    Still stirring it up ES :) My take on this varies a little and isn't simple - because trading and gambling are closely linked by some definitions but the differences between professional trading and amateur gambling are important. Same: In both cases you put up money that you will lose in...
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    110 Tomahawk missiles launched against Libyan sites

    "Do not ditch Libya face to face with the juggernaut of the North Atlantic bloc. Do not allow NATO to crush the democracy in Libya, especially with regard to the fact, that this country does not threaten anybody. Do not do the short-sighted oversea politicians' bidding," the LDPR leader said...
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    Interactive Broker's Oversized disejxftn folder

    These folders of funny letters store your information ... all the audit reports etc. Copy the contents off to somewhere else (so you have a back up of your audit reports and so one should you have any issues). Then delete everything in that folder except TWS.XML which contains your setup...
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    Mark Douglas Interview

    Something I found on bit torrent. From http://bitsnoop.com/mark-douglas-trading-psychology-how-q23158815.html thats bitsnoop.com /mark-douglas-trading-psychology-how-q23158815. html You need to be running a torrent client like uTorrent and you go to the technical subtab and click on...
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    Interactive Brokers Rude Customer Service

    I called them once to break a trade because my (local) internet had died. Before that I called once when the HK server wasn't serving historical data. Thats it. Personally, if people are calling there CS's more than once a year I hope they fcuk off and find another broker. IB provide...
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    Interactive Brokers Rude Customer Service

    That's BS. I do 10 trades in a huge day. They treat me well. They've always been polite. But I don't ask many questions and when I do: - the questions aren't stupid - I'm polite - I'm firm and assertive without upsetting anyone.
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    Hang Seng (HSI), Kospi 200 (K200) Trading Journal! (14 Year Old Trader)

    I don't trade KOSPI but two others you might consider depending on how well your current contracts match your trading style are the Nikkei (in all its forms) and STW (Taiwan) on SGX.
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