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IB had an outage with all GLOBEX data. It was IB specific, my other feed was fine. While I was royally pissed off, on the other hand this is the first time my feed has dropped out in all the time I've used IB and stored quotes since April 2005. Given that my other feed has died three times...

Can anyone confirm that regular trading hours on the Montreal exchange for Canadian Gov't 10 year bonds are from 8:20 AM - 3:00 PM? From IB that's what I think they are, but they also list trading outside that window. Also, the symbol listing from Pinnacle Data shows them listed on the CME --...

Odds, schmods, I had my dual wan router fail twice in 2 months before getting rid of it. :D But I will admit the PC is definitely another single point of failure. However, unless you're going to set up a cluster of some kind there's not much you can do about it except get RAID drives and have...

A dual-wan router is a single point of failure. So if your router dies it doesn't matter if you have two internet connections. And I've had this happen....now I use two ethernet cards, haven't had a problem since I added the second card (one ISP has gone down but I've never lost connectivity)...

Can anyone recommend a service with historical data for VIX futures (intraday data)? IB has a few months, but only for the unexpired contract. SSB

In general I think you need to be a little more cautious with an IRA because you cannot simply add more funds to cover a drawdown in your trading. Other than that I treat it like a regular account, but making sure I have a little larger cushion to cover any potential drawdowns....

I set up a new catchall just in case I missed an alias I set up, but I hope I got them all. I also came across this website, not sure if it will do anything but hopefully it won't make anything worse: http://www.openspf.org/ It's really amazing that we don't have laws mandating that...

Oh I forgot to mention I already opened a help desk ticket with my hosting provider to notify them of it, they said obviously they can't do anything, but in the past when they've seen this usually the spammer moves on to another domain within a few days. SSB

I'm fairly certain it's not a virus or spyware on my machine, I'm running norton antivirus with a full scan once a week, plus I have a router based firewall. I do have a "catchall" account set up (which is receiving the messages) but I'm hesitant to disable it. The reason is that I like to...

No way to get him to Guantanamo? :mad: What about that prison in Iraq -- Abu Gharab?

Apparently a spammer has decided to use my domain name as a bogus return email address on his spam. I'm now getting 200-500 "delivery failed" messages a day sent to addresses such as "ajfnlakjsnf@mydomain.com" after his spam bounces. Is there any way I can block this schmuck from doing...

I guess the fear that somehow in a very fast market (when I can't watch of course) my stop limit will end up unfilled because of a huge move and I'll end up wiped out. Although I guess it's not too likely to move that much between 930-4 eastern, which is when I trade (even during fed days...

I've been trading using IB simulated stop market orders on GLOBEX (mostly ER2 and EMD) and I was thinking that I might get better fills by submitting stop limit orders with a limit price wide enough to essentially be a market order (after reading their website apparently that's what globex...

Yup, he's definitely correct about this, I'm doing it. If your only sub-account was the LLC then I'd be more worried. If you have other non-pro sub-accounts I wouldn't think it would be a problem (then again I'm not a lawyer, accountant, or person who has a clue :)) It also would make a...

I plugged this into Tradestation. It kicks butt on 5 minute ER2 until you add commissions (even with IB's rates). However, after adding Exit on close (so no overnight holding) it does significantly better. Still a very low profit factor however. What's the deal with MACD -- you will...

I believe him. I did some googling and found links that discussed how it used to happen but has since ceased to exist. Too bad....free money is free money :)

Thanks for the heads up. I remember reading about guaranteed stops awhile ago and I always wondered how they could do it....I guess they can't. Assuming low commissions for CME ($2 per side) do you think the trading costs are higher with forex or currency futures?

I'm going to be implementing what I thought would be a futures trading strategy, but in looking at backtesting there are a few places where a huge gap overnight (usually over a weekend) completely nailed me. I remember reading that with forex your stops are guaranteed. Is this actually the...

I use comcast in NJ and it's been very very dependable -- no outages in 2+ years (at least that I noticed). Before that it was spotty. I have verizon DSL too, that's been out a few times mostly due to thunderstorms in the area. I suggest bitching to comcast as much as you can, I've heard...

Why not just link to the whole magazine? It's free anyway.... I should add I have no idea what you're talking about -- are you asking a question, posting information, what? SSB