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>Whether or not one can gleam positive results from >a bunch of numbers is not the premise of trading. Since you don't speak for me, you might change that to "is not *my* premise for trading". Gleaning positive results from a bunch of numbers is the *only* premise for me. I like the...

>Once you load it you will see that it is >nothing but realtick. >They also have multi chart windows pages >where you can have 4 charts up at the same time What you've described here doesn't sound anything like Realtick. I keep 18 charts up on my primary RT page. >loaded, it is...

Thanks for the change Baron. Your constant attention to improvement is one of the many things that make this forum so special. JB

>Just remember that every hard drive, every >single hard drive in the world, will fail at some >point. Not if, just when. Actually, I will argue that the overwhelming majority of hard drives will NEVER fail. They will instead be relegated to the scrap heap in perfect working order...

Toad, before I attempt to answer your question, I need to make sure we are using the same terms. In fact, since we are both using IB, let's use the IB terms to avoid confusion. Could you reword your question using the IB terms "stop election price" or "stop limit price" to replace your use...

I know there was a time when I was new to IB (8 months ago) that users were complaining about IB stops not firing off and filling when they should have. At that time I was only scalping and wasn't using them so I couldn't comment. I have since been doing a little swing trading and relying on...

>Submit 'stop limit' order with 'stop election >price' of 24.99 and 'stop limit price' of 25.10 Your election price is *below* your limit price. You are telling the system to attempt to sell your stock for 25.10, but to only attempt it after the market price has dropped to 24.99 or below...

>Again, turok, dottom, I put my money where >I put my mouth. I take the bet.... From me, no bet was offered and none will be. I have never made the claim that my system is better than you. As Hitman says, one must be a Master Trader to develop a truly great system and I am no where near...

>I agree with you, for raw calculations a computer >beats the human brain. But for pattern recognition >the human brain is still number one. That is another blanket statement that is provably incorrect with thousands of real world examples (the first and most obvious one is simple OCR)...

>What determines the prices of stocks ? >answer : the human brain >What's the best tool to analyze those prices ? >answer : the human brain The second item is a hollow assertion IMHO. There are many thing that are determined by the human brain that are better analyzed by computers...

>Love is one of them, no one can tell you that you >are in love, you just know it, a lot of the times >you can't even put it to words..[snip] Hitman, some people are much better that others at describing their feeling. Some people will describe a stunning sunset as "the most beautiful...

>Does luck matter? It is a factor in every trade, it >makes good trades great, poor trades flat out >nightmares. Does it matter in your long term >success as a trader? Hell no. If there's someone out there that isn't convinced of Hitman's truth here, just go ahead and give me your money...

I think editing should be allowed for some reasonable amount of time (anywhere from 15m to 60m works for me), but I dislike allowing unlimited editing. Sometimes if you are reviewing a thread for education purposes, you lose the whole point because what one poster responds to has been entirely...

>All of a sudden I lose trading permissions and it tries >to connect over & over again. Related to that is that >the "Orders" light goes silent and you end up not being >able to trade and often your account info vanishes. This is *exactly* the problem I was having. Misery loves...

Rock and Firehawk, on the "members" page it shows current calls (under "new setups for XX date") and current positions under "portfolio review". JB

>I can't find the trade on FLEX of which you s >peak...however I did find a short on FLEX >dated 1/31/01... Last night, the only open trade in the "portfolio review" was listed as FLEX as I refered to. This morning, it had been changed to CREE (only the symbol had changed...all the...

>Maybe it is your ISP. MB said it was their problem...it just that the problem they said they were "working on" didn't make a lot of sense. JB

The last two days have been awful for me on RT. Today, MB help said it was an "internet problem", but it sounded to me like a "we don't know - BS" answer since my trading buddy sits next to me and we share the same cable modem and internet routing and sometimes he had the problem and sometimes...

Uhhh...Good luck! JB

They claim currently to be in Flex short from 24.65. It appears that they entered it today (11-20) and already took a 1$ partial. Problem is it hasn't seen even a high of 24.65 since back in October. From this rather shallow investigation is seems that their accounting is a bit flexible. JB