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Man, this thing keeps getting uglier by the second ~ blanket sell off across the globe.

1) VLO 2) DRYS 3) LDK

yeah, I think the free backfill is like courtesy service to them. Helpdesk keep wasting my time asking me to email all these logs and doing all these things and it always gets fixed before they resolve the issue... until it happens again next week. Really frustrating.

Anyone having backfill problems - again? This is getting to be annoying and IB helpdesk doesn't seem to be aware of this problem AT ALL.

Sounds like a bad idea but I do think we need to inflate our way out of this one. We'll worry about inflation when the credit crisis is over.

You're right. A really bad day marked with a massive reversal will be what the bulls need.

... I've at least 6 friends, who never cared about their retirement, contact me and ask me if they should put their 401k into cash. And i think at least 4 of them did.

Think I'll start posting my bad losses on this thread. Had a great month last month but so far, October has been brutal. Started the morning up +880 then went on to pick bottoms. I wish all I got from it were smelly fingers. Ended the day -9000.

Mine has been behaving well lately so no problems on my end across the board (futures and stocks).

I haven't posted since P/L 2006 but today seem like an exceptional day. I was chilling with a +2300 before that drop that killed me for -4K in 2 minutes. Then I proceded to lose my cool and ended up with an even bigger loss. -4300 Worst loss from top ever from what I can remember.

Same here. They fixed Nymex though. Lately, their data feed has been really spotty.

Is it just me or IB not showing HLC and volume on Nymex products? In fact, CL just froze at 103.87 ? It hasn't moved and i can't get out of my position. shish.

Maybe the SEC will bad shortselling on RIMM, too.

Yup. Same here. Problems since last week actually. sometimes it works sometimes it doesn't. I seem to have more persistent problems with certain symbols such as RUT and some other stocks like CSIQ, DRYS, etc... weird. ** edit: I use Amibroker and I get the same problems.

Thanks anek. I still trade and manage my trades based on "dollar value" not by points and I think that's what hinders me. I make as much with a 20k account as with a 100k account. I'll probably try to start sizing up next year.

Do you use this kind of ratio mostly for scalping I take it? What is your avg profit target / stop loss (in points) if you don't mind me asking? I must be overly conservative. I trade up to about 3 ES per 100k ~ roughly 1 ES per 33k.

Well, there will always be problems in the markets but there is a concerted effort to fix the markets ~ this year has been terrible for most world markets. This isn't just the problem of the US or China ~ I'm not going to fight the Central banks and their money machine. I'm not going to say...

I don't think this market will be looking back anytime soon. This is a massive bounce across the board and I see 1300 very soon for sure. 1400 is too far for me to see :) Shorting the Yen, too. Even I'm surprised at the strength of this bounce :eek: I thought we'd end at 1180-ish.

50 ES points since :)

I don't pay much attention to the VIX so I can't say for sure but I do look at the ISEE Sentiment index and it's absolutely bearish 50-70s... usually a bounce occurs at these levels. The 666 is just a bonus. It's divine intervention :D