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The main reason is looking at you right in the face: put in an extra 256 MB in that box, or even better an extra 512MB. After you upgrade, make sure that your paging file is set to at least 1.5 times your RAM size (and check that it is at least 384MB right now since you got 256MB RAM). W2K will...

Waggie, since these guys--as per their web site--seems to be more or less an offshoot (for lack of a better term) of Andover/Assent (they use the software and the clearing service), what advantage do you find in trading with them rather than with Andover directly? What's the commission...

Here's one from the Master himself: Lord Keynes. "The game of investment is intolerably boring and over-exacting to any one who is entirely exempt from the gambling instinct; whilst he who has it must pay to this propensity the appropriate toll."

"A thousand bucks profit a day keeps the Repo Man away".

I hope for the sake of your wallet that you're practicing your TWS skills on the demo. TWS speed makes it very unforgiving to user errors.

Try this little made-in-Germany program. I used it and it works great. Until you recover, just make sure that you don't write any new stuff to the drive where your deleted data resides, as you might overwrite it. The program was free when I used it (or it was a functional demo)...

Yep! The last one (07/17) wiped out my setting on a win 2K box, left them untouched on 1 XP box, nuked them on another. Go figure... If anything, it shows you how well that stuff is tested before being put out to users :-( I used to be able to port all my settings from one box to...

I don't know "why", except that it is. You can increase the sample size, and it will not significantly deviate from the results of the original 30. That's the theory, but it 's based on many experiments by many people over many years, so it holds. I should add that pollsters and the like...

I don't want to go there. I thought you were asking about tracking your trades. Elvis

A sample size of 30 (minimum) is the statistically significant magic number. Seems low, but it's a fact. However, you can't go wrong by increasing the sample size to whatever you like. Elvis

Backup your ME first as a precaution and do a clean install of XP. If something gets messed up in the future, at least you won't have to wonder if it's not some inherited ME glitch. . And make sure that whatever your processor is, you have at least 512 mb of RAM (put in 768 or more and you'll...

I did a bit more research on threads on this site and it seems like ARCA often holds up orders. I'll use the disable option in TWS. Elvis

I rarely trade at or near the opening, but this morning about 10 mns after the opening (trading with IB), I placed an order to buy 1000 MSFT via SMART routing. The order went to ARCA and stayed there, not being executed for more than a minute (or at least it felt like it :-) . The price...

For whatever it's worth, a computer rebooting randomly and/or defaulting to a blue screen error message is often a sign of a stick of defective (or loose) RAM. A good clue is if, in successive error events, you get a slightly (or completely) different blue screen error message from one time to...

It's pretty good at detecting and updating nVidia type drivers. Your mileage may vary :)

You may simply be experiencing a conflicting sharing of resources due to the slot occupied by your PCI card. It's not unusual in a motherboard for one of the PCI slots to share resources with the AGP slot (in short, you can't have cards in both slots at the same time). Typically PCI slot 1 is...

Then yes you have a problem. I work at a big outfit and because of the availability of the firewall client and its integration within network security, it was easy and routine. There was a thread on this at IB's own customer bulletin board. I haven't been there in a while but you might want...

Yep. Had the same problem but it was easily solved. IB would not connect via the proxy server, but the place where I work has a firewall client that can be installed on individual machines and will permit the connection. If you have not done it yet, call your company's tech help (if they have...

Well, the oath does not mention renouncing your old citizenship. It mentions renouncing allegiance, which is a different matter entirely. Lawyers and historical interpretations vary, but the reality is clear. The State Dept has not always been clear on what's going on. However, in practice dual...

Nope. Niet. Non. Nicht. You do not "surrender" or give up anything. You pledge allegiance to the US and you promise to bear arms for the US if called upon to do so. The fact that you forbade allegiance to foreign powers or potentates (that's the wording) does not mean that you surrender your...