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si true. but as i recall (haven't read the thread in a while- just noticed it at the top of list), it kinda drifted into the traveling and trading area- alone or otherwise. i think trading is a pretty solitary endeavor for most. if you're independent enough to give this a go as a...

I am living this for the past 2 years. 6 months out of the year i travel. Right now, i am trading from an internet cafe in the middle of fucking nowhere- central north Thailand. Frankly, the first time i have had connectivity issues that caused a problem. i anticipated this though- i am...

i have the same problem as Robert. i went from vista 64 bit to Ultimate 32 bit, and single click no longer works.

i mentioned it a few posts up- China raised rates

just talked to the trading mgr with IB in Europe. amazingly, he had NO IDEA what i was talking about- he hadn't heard. incredible given the 170 point drop and 5 minute outage. he put me on hold and called EUREX, came back and told me that the exchange interrupted trading for 5 minutes and...

ok, China raise rate 25bps. odd that the reaction in the dax and cac were so much more extreme. i guess thin markets and a woosh. can anyone report if their broker (other than IB) went down? also, what do you show as the low print in the DAX? 6915 is what IB is showing now, but it was...

i jsut posted a thread too. no fucking idea. did your broker go down too for several minutes? frustrating, and, like i said, hoping it was the exchange and not ib failing me again.

170 points in a blink and IB went down. saw bid and ask but would not execute orders for several minutes. i can't find any news. anyone signed, last man on the deal team who had a really nice gain if IB would have executed me. REALLY hoping EUREX went down and not just ib- i don't need...

don't question him. he's right. he's so big that they have special dec options just for him.

I find it disingenuous that you trumpet and post the closing trade on all your wins but the losses, esp. the 'buy everything you can get, buying more again' variety go unaccounted- whilst you mock someone who actually is honest enough to comment on his losses. and now, after being 'all in'...

Thanks. Yes, i searched but i was hoping somebody new might have a secret to share. I assume, given your name, you're in NZ. Where do you think the bigger retail traders in HK trade through? All the HK brokers are very high. IB always has good rates, but with the HSI, it's by a factor of 3-...

It was over an hour. I am talking to Berkeley this morning. I doubt they'll be competitive with IB, but hoping to be proven wrong. My conversation with OEC was maddening. The guy insisted (and "confirmed" with his clearing co) that HSI is 21.20 HKD a side and that is what they charge in...

I've been trading the Hang Seng (HSI) more lately and have tried to find an alternative to Interactive Brokers- to no avail. OEC now has the HSI but their commissions are more than 3x IB's. $10 USD RT plus 42.40 HKD (~$5.40 USD) exchange fees (even though the ACTUAL ex fees are 21.20HKD-...

First, thx Mark for sharing this script. second, as a data point, i am using 64 bit, saved the .exe file to my desktop, clicked it, and that was it- it works! thx again. you saved me some money yesterday; as the delay and chasing limit orders would have been costly in some fast moving...

not in disagreement with u of online vs b&m retailers. but.... don't know how old you are, but to defacto classify the average (or prevailing) American consumer as a 'savvy shopper'?!?!? lol. to quote from Tommy Boy: "What the American public doesn't know is what makes them the American...

This is part of my complaint for which IB has NO excuse. When I called- same thing. THEY DON'T BELIEVE YOU (or they don't care). It seems they have no system for tracking the # of calls, so it takes WAY too long for them to even begin to acknowledge the problem and get to work fixing it...

Unbelievable that it's nearly 2011 and IB cares so little about its clients money (hey, it's not theirs, so fuck 'em) that it doesn't have backup systems in place so that redundancy makes this a non starter. Their system is so fucked up that even though everything but asian markets is...

Not being technical, i really don't have the chops to feel my way thru these work arounds (if the 'for dummies' version comes out, be sure to PM me! lol). i would estimate that in 2 days of being forced to endure this forced 'upgrade' it has cost me well over $1,000 and, more likely, 2-3x...

you made a point of condescendingly telling me how easy this was, jsut trying to learn. i wish i could trade with unlimited capital and never a puke out point. that would make it easier when i'm down like you are right now...

i thought you already bought all the 6950 puts you could get.