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You must have been of those who bet the farm this thing was going down in late February.

Didn't Google do a dutch auction? I remember there were some complaints but I guess no one complaining now that it's move up so much.

I like IB since I use it which in itself should be a buy for me ie Peter Lynch's buy what you know. But is the asking price a good deal? I'm looking at other recent broker gone public and the charts look good. eftc, schw, amtd, oxps, cbot, cme, ice, nmx, nyse, nyx. In general...

I was down a good 20-25 minutes. There was some others who were having problems on the ButtonTrader newsgroup. It's back up now. They probably had to restart the server under their desk. IB trader probably kicked out the power cord. :)

Really bad. Second day in a row. It's not even busy. Trying to relogin and nothing is happening.

Trading component is down. Still getting data feed.

Tried to relogin. Can't get past login screen.

I recently had to do some stuff in C++. God I forgot how much I hated pointer arithmetic. Also that BS with const. C++ has some of the worse syntax. Code can get convoluted and make your head spin reading it.

I will say the bull move after the meltdown was a cake walk. Any pullback was supported. You could double down/cost average to defend your position and it will come back up to where you could do break even or a nice gain. Try doing that now and you will get killed. Personally I did okay...

Engineering students are well paid. In the states, they are some of the highest paid. Even if he doesn't graduate, he should be able to find work. Being just out of school, he won't be making a great deal initially but if he applies himself, I think 10 years is reasonable.

I'm clearing my charts and backfilling. I'm not getting todays data back. Each time I do it, I lose all current days data.

Really sad that his parents get dragged into it. He's a young guy so if he went bust, he'll recover. But taking down your parents? Well I guess we know where his earnings for the next 5-10 years will be going.

One thing interesting to note, the foreign markets have tanked but the indices have not moved much. Last week, dax/ftse were moving the indices big time premarket. Indices may be setting up for a morning bounce but then they tank.

Another big vote for ButtonTrader. It has some of the best splitting functionality available. I really think it gives me an edge when I trade.

Most sought after? Don't know if I completely agree with that. I do believe that we will try to retest the lows. Fibs retracements are as good as any other indicator in order to find resistance levels.

Bump for this thread. It answered my questions about trading the nikkei and hang seng. For traders who trade these markets with a USD denominated account, what is your strategy for converting back to USD? I don't think doing it daily is cost effective but doing it say once a month exposes...

That's cool. But I'm actually hoping that neke accomplishes his goal. Be nice for once to see someone overcome the huge odds and prove the doubters wrong.

Same thing with the RUT. 50% retracement to 795 before a rollover to test lows.

sp bounced off 1374.07 low, currently 1402.85. I'm thinking at most 50% fib retracement to about 1418 before rollover. Either that or we're rolling over now.

When someone says something like that, they want you to fail. You're losing because you don't have the proper setups for current market conditions. I'm all for making big bets but you need to have the patience to wait for the right setup.