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Congrats to MB Trading, they've now reached the point where people are accusing them of ridiculous things, similar to the "IB kept my money" types of posts you see here all the time. Some points: - The log you posted has nothing to do with MB, it just shows you had a registry entry that...

Would you prefer the reverse where they wire money out at the drop of a hat? I can just see the posts now "IB let someone steal all my funds". I went through the same thing and it was a pain, but I prefer that to having my account robbed. I do agree they could do a much better job notifying...

I've used wealthlab and tradestation, I prefer the speed of tradestation but the ease of use of wealthlab. The output from wealthlab I also think is better, at least it's clearer and if you use the portfolio simulator there are some detailed stats. Also, tradestation is very difficult to...

I'd like to place a stop market order that will be triggered under either one of the following conditions: 1. The stop price is crossed and the price stays at or above the stop price for 1 minute OR 2. The stop price is crossed and price then moves 1 point away in less than 1 minute...

As Sam said, you need to use a stop limit to get a guaranteed price. With a stop market you get a guaranteed fill if the stop criteria are hit, but your trade will execute at the bid (for a sale) or the ask (for a purchase). Remember with the stop limit it may trade through your price but not...

I didn't get the message, but I thought I'd share an email story from my work. My company felt it was a good idea to hire offshore testers, who decided it was a good idea to import actual production data (including email addresses) into their testing database, and then turned on the email...

I will be setting one up this year. I set up the LLC earlier this year. I have a full-time job which hits the SS/FICA cap so I will only pay self-employment tax on medicare. SSB

In my opinion it hasn't been worth it -- but we haven't had any kind of event so it's like car insurance if you're a good driver....wasted until you total your car, then they give you the $500 they say your Ferrari was worth :mad: Definitely check the ES options. I didn't know how they...

My concern was for other options, such as ER2 or NQ. ES seems OK, but if you end up in a strike price with open interest of only you, the person on the other end may not be interested in closing the position and you could be stuck in it. SSB

I use far out of the money futures options (usually in ES) to hedge against this type of thing overnight, but I don't know how effective my strategy would be in a disaster. There seems to be decent liquidity in ES futures options which is a definite concern -- what good would a huge paper...

FYI in Excel 2003 (maybe Excel XP too?) has a feature to import external data from a web query. You can specify the part of the page you want to get. It's under the Data menu. SSB

WL is not python based...it's written in Delphi. But I agree it's very easy to use and very powerful

Consult an accountant -- you may pay a few hundred dollars -- but compare that with the costs if you do it wrong, get audited, and end up paying the self-employment, plus penalties and interest. I use Robert Green (www.greentradertax.com) and would recommend him, but there are also other...

Restore from a backup....you do have one, right? If not consider spending a few $100s and get an external drive and Norton Ghost, Acronis Trueimage or something similar and have it image your trading machine nightly. can come in real handy. I also use systemrecovery.com, $15 a month for 5...

It's a new "feature". But it's such a killer it's not even documented! Check out the TWSAPI yahoo user group for a discussion on this and some java code that will do autologins for you. SSB

I've never seen one, but you could write a static data adapter for Wealthlab (if you're a fidelity customer -- or you live outside the US). I use a SQL DB for my real-time quotes from IB (to store the ticks and convert them to bars) and it's not bad, but I think there are definitely faster...

Note that an EMA relies on EVERY data point from the past (with recent ones being given the highest weights) so even data points from years ago can affect the EMA values. Also check out here: http://stockcharts.com/education/IndicatorAnalysis/indic_movingAvg.html

Gary, I think I get the log box concept now -- you start at 0.01, then add ln(0.01) to each box....so you get: 0.01 + 0.000100 -> 0.0101 + 0.000101 -> 0.0201 + 0.000102 -> which eventually becomes: 95.49601604 + 0.95496016 96.45097620 + 0.964509762 97.41548596 + 0.97415486...

I've been trying to figure out the scaling of point and figure charts when drawn with log scales so I can try and draw them on my own and get a feel for how they work. But I can't find anything useful on how the scale is derived. For example, take google ...

I had probably 15 profiles when they were wiped out. Basically I logged into TWS and turned on my trading system, but I didn't check if the profiles existed (and I didn't have any signals at the start of the day). I luckily noticed that my first trade at 11 AM was set to inactive (since the...