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With you guys talking about the opening prints. I was at a prop firm once before when the person next to me put out an limit buy order on an active NYSE stock. Within 30 secs, the specialist print it BELOW his limit buy price and then took the price up and did not fill the person. The...

Chances are, you accidently selected either a market order or a limit order at 11.00. Made the same mistake before. :) Good Luck!

If you trade breakout/momentum, stick with NASDAQ. If you like to trade counter trends, envelope, trade pairs, stick with NYSE. Trying to get in and out quick with a specialist blows. You don't get filled on breakout when it goes the way you expected. When you do get filled, enjoy your...

Do a search on ET and you should find a few other interview threads with questions other people were asked. Good Luck!

Why are you cutting and paste from a newbie trader who didn't read the agreements which he signed, when he got an account. It says in the agreements that IB can liquidate your positions without warning if you will exceed margin requirements. This is to protect IB and all it's customers.

It's possible. So is winning the lottery.

Here are some questions. 1. Do you know how to program like in C++, VBscript, Java? 2. How complicated are your trading strategies? http://www.interactivebrokers.com/php/webhelp/webhelp.htm#Interoperability/DDE_Configure_TWS.htm Click Application Program Interface There is most...

Does anybody trade spreads with eSignal here on ET? Don't you notice the delay in charts?

I tried downloading the latest version since it's been 3 months since this problem has been reported! Did they fix this problem yet? If I do a symbol ES #F and it updates each tick. If I create a Spread with just ES #F, it doesn't update each tick. This is just wrong...

I was reading my Futures magazine about the Top Ten Trading System and they looked interesting. For paying 1-2k for a trading system, you could get these great long term systems averaging over 40% a year. I researched into some of the systems like CheckMate and ReadySetGo. I look at their...

If it works, trade it. If it doesn't work, sell it.

That's nice to hear they are fixing that first problem. That's a good question, I should've asked IB to check on that order while I was talking to them. I just assumed that the MOC was canceled because my stop was filled in the last 10 minutes. But that doesn't make sense because it...

I find MOC orders profitable on certain stocks on a daily basis if the entry criterias are met. If you backtest a stock and find that it usually closes within 10-15% of the high of the day on an up day, then I would trade MOC for that stock for the exit.

I did call in and talk with support. Their solution was to use the GAT order. and set the time to 3:59 instead of a MOC. I thought it was sorta lame because I used the close price of day for backtesting. I think I'm going to start swing trading longer timeframes that do not require MOC.

They have bugs with their MOC order. Within 10 minutes of the close, it cannot be canceled. I have a buy-stop with attached sell-stop and MOC. Usually, I swing till market close and end the day flat. 1. Once I has using about 3x Buying Power but I had all my MOC orders in so I wouldn't...

i do....... its extremely fast

Interesting article. http://www.marketwatch.com/news/story.asp?guid=%7B1F3D9A8B%2D4FAF%2D4AD8%2DB3FD%2D11BAF5904B41%7D&siteid=mktw&dist=

I feel sorry for whichever broker you switch to next. Why don't you try MBT, I heard they have good customer support that you can be an asshole to.

Time to upgrade. Minimum 3.0 GigaHertz with 1GB of RAM. You also have to determine the bottleneck. Was your charts lagging because of Esignal? Or because your CPU usuage was at 100%? Or because you didn't have enough memory?

You can trade the money over and over again in the same day. So the IRA Margin account basically lets you trade the money as soon as you sell it instead of waiting 3 days for cash to settle like normal IRA cash account. But I don't think you can short or use more than the cash value of your...