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Sometimes a bit too successful, like days when the "overnighted" stock opens in my favor but the hedge offsets the gain. :mad: But it has to be viewed as an insurance policy. On the days it works as one I don't mind at all.

Or how about volatility matched hedging? i.e. the 30-day historical volatility of SPY is 13.68%, CTX is 29.50% You can go through the math to take annualized numbers to daily but its just the ratio that counts. I solve: $spy * HV30spy * SHRspy = $ctx * HV30ctx * SHR ctx and come...

yep, I saw it too. I killed TWS and logged back in... same problem. I think they just do that once in a while to make our trading more exciting! :eek:

#3 sounds like the most fun. (But then you'd have to find a new school for Mildew...)

I'm in my first year of trading with a prop firm, have been "paying for my education" in the market, and expect to have a net loss reported on my 2003 K-1 form. Not being familiar with K-1 reporting I'd like to know what happens with the loss tax-wise. I assume it offsets other income for...

Bright has a pretty significant fraction of their traders fully remote. I say "fully" as many of the office based traders will trade from home when they don't want to change out of their PJs (right Don?). Check out the "remote trading" button on www.stocktrading.com They may want you to...

The link http://www.echotradeonline.com/chat/spreads1.jpg given in the chat transcript goes nowhere. Fix please?

FYI: One of the two Chaintech GeForce 3 Ti 200 display cards I bought last year died. In the process of arranging for return/replacement of the card I discovered Chaintech's warranty is only good for one year from the card's date of manufacture, NOT the purchase date. Also they require a $35...

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That's what I did. (I did first uninstall the Matrox drivers prior to the re-install.)

What is the upgrade process like for moving to dual processors on Win2K? Is it simply drop in the second processor and go? I remember NT upgrading to be a pain as the switch to the multiprocessor kernel after service packs had been applied could turn out to be disastrous.

I've run into this too. The solution appears to be in your answer to the question during driver installation related to "allow monitors to have different resolutions" or something like that. If you answer NO the driver seems to treat the display as one big chunk spanning both monitors; YES...

You can use any means you wish for stock selection: darts, science, chicken bones, etc. (I use a combination of the last two.) First, I have a minimum daily volume level I'd like to see. Then I manually inspect the stocks' daily chart in MetaStock using my indicator which shows %change of...

http://www.nyse.com/about/holidayclosings.html says nothing about an early close on 12/31. Sorry, looks like you gotta trade all day :-)

And... what's been happening with the "Account" window? On Friday it had all the P&L data I could ask for: realized and unrealized P&L per position based on actual acquisition prices, not the day's open. Now its back to its old partially useful self. I haven't changed TWS versions (have...

Can Qcharts be directed to allow its "child" windows to be placed anywhere in the display space or must they always be contained within the application's main window? I'm looking for a switch to enable this behavior -- kind of like the CyberTrader platform's Free Floating Windows option.

Would somebody please start a Triple-7 vs Don Celebrity Death Match thread? I haven't seen any desk fee discussion in the last dozens of posts. (I don't care enough to start the new thread myself. I thought this crap ended when the election was over.)

Uhh, color me skeptical. I would fear that an OPG order without NYSE routing could get an IB simulated opening price. That's not what I'm after. Besides, if SMART+OPG is autorouted to the NYSE then doesn't the recent IB announcement on the additional $0.003 for directed API entered orders...

Doesn't work for me. If I set OPG in the ticket window it gets changed to DAY when I select NYSE for the exchange. However if I set up the order from its line on the order management window it works only if I set OPG first, then NYSE. If this is reversed (setting exchange first) the OPG...

No error message. Order setup all done from the ticket window, but I just tried it from the order line and I see the same lack of OPG. I guess I can try the newest TWS, but it seems odd that OPG orders did work previously with this TWS. Go figure.