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Perennial bears in this mkt will eventually be punished: nothing has been able to bring it down; not oil, nor concerns over inflation, nor global and political instability and neither 1/3 of gdp estimates. And for that matter neither et'ers talking about negative divergence. It has paid off to...

All those bullish hammers are screaming buy and buy and buy....

sounds like Trend has an interest that's beyond posting that absurdity.

You can write calls and puts, but only if part of an integrated strategy that does mainly rely in less risky approaches, otherwise it is only a matter of time before u go boom: there are so many examples of great traders that did that for a living and almost all of them have gone broke.

It's when the mkt opens and the flow of orders come through that performance deteriorates; during extended hours things are a bit better, but not anywhere near acceptable. It seems pretty clear that 1.4gig can't handle TWS.

aapl ibook g4; processor 1.2 GHz. Just upgraded RAM to 768MB, but no improvements whatsoever: with fewer symblos and no charts things slightly better but still very slow. No applets running on the background, only TWS.

Im going to run further tests, if there are really problems I'll go with G5 that works perfectly with TWS. Still, many mixed opinions on imac from people who don't even own one, no conclusive evidence it really has any issues and I couldn't care the less about applets, that are going to be...

What stocks was your system trading on friday? Not bad if they all were in a downtrend.

Yeah, if he keeps it untli exp. and is still a lousy trade imo. I'd rather buy premium on otm calls in goog.

Also otm puts and calls are very much forgiving, sometimes offering gains even if underlying moves aginst u.

That's a terrible ratio: u should have bought itm and sold far out: otm calls prices in consecutive strikes are pretty much the same and the diff sometimes is not more than a couple of c. The best u could have got is $1. Of course costs would have been atrocious with itm/otm but at least u'd...

Yeah, it looks like a repetition of last April 'disappointment', when the stock, after missing higher end of expectation and giving a weak forecast was going nowhere for a while: I, myself believed the stock was dead when it could nor break previous all time highs of 88.50 (before split), then...

Yeah, fear is good for u, but learn to calculate and accept the risk u are taking before entering your trades and be prepared before hand to suffer a loss and to deal with it: no matter how small your position is, when u are wrong u always suffer some kind of psychological damage and accepting...

First of all, I tried imac already on demonstration room and run TWS with no problems and the issue is not software 'cause I run TWS with no applets: CPU on my ibook simply can't handle TWS. Second, I need another pc, cause I need to monitor other things (chat/bloomberg) and will use ibook just...

I've already investigated imac potentials and it's perfectly suited for trading and my applications: dual core intel is very fast and the main problem with my ibook was the high CPU usage; this won't be an issue whatsoever with imac.

No intention of buying laptops no more: Im waiting for imac to come out here in uk.

Likely, at some point in time (who knows when) intc is bound to bounce; if in, only for a quicky, not an investement: dead money imo.

Don't let me start with laptops; I cursed mine ad nauseam in the chat room and feel compelled to throw it out of the window on every trading session. fkuc'em

If u try to switch to Europe help-desk u might solve all the issues u got with IB. Every time I call them, they answer the phone after three rings and have always been very kind to me, sorting out my problems quickly and taking the time to explain things.

Trends are almost non existent right now and with so many fake breakouts losses on chasing them can be substantial; I'd rather buy @bottom than in the middle of a trend that could already be exhausting. Size stock traders use to dump stocks as soon as they rise and rotate to weaker ones for the...