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I thought the US servers were all in the same place in the US (NJ perhaps). The issue now is latency and resilience with big bandwidth low latency connections being "cheap" collocation isn't so important unless you're in the ultrafast game. That would lower your cost of equipment resilience...

LMAO. First pull the plank out of your own eye. 1. The US is anything but an innocent party in the game of supporting anything that makes you money - until the smell gets too bad then it hiding time. 2. Lets not forget slavery 3. Its time that the US stopped bullying everyone...

There is no need to keep your short position open unless you have some bizarre tax reason in which case you need a second account. Go short. Go long by closing as many shorts as needed + adding more long if its a bigger posn Close long with adjustments as above by reopening short position.

LOL. The rest of the world doesn't believe that.

IB backfills data down to a 5 second increment (actually it might be 1 but 5 seconds is as low as Sierra Chart has been set up to go). A lot of products don't go lower than 30 seconds. Correct that the tick data is not true tick ... a maximum of about 1 tick every 100ms (100-200 depends on...

Quote Tracker and Sierra Chart are the two low cost options most preferred for TWS. Ensign is another but more expensive. On news. Beware that the "demo" version of TWS isn't the same as the real version so the real user version may have better streaming news. I don't use it so don't know...

Sierra Chart is better but Quote Tracker is free. There are loyal Quote Tracker customers who will disagree with me. For some who like the way it is set out and don't want extra features that are available on SC its "better." The free version is still advertising ware though isn't it -...

IB, like Brown, in the 90s don't really want newbies. They would prefer slightly olderbies. Get some experience. Build your money up and then look at IB again if you still want to then. Etrade or MB or something will be fine places to start off. For existing IB customers it is much...

Why does that have to be ib's timer? Couldn't it be the market or market reporting? On the other hand I'm looking at TWS and my clock (accurate to within 1/100th of a second currently) and TWS is a couple of seconds behind. Of course it doesn't matter to me because Sierra Chart timestamps...

Thats an interesting way of asking. I've always preferred an average in terms of tradable ticks. Mainly because when it gets too low my strategies don't work well. IMO Red, with KOSPI you actually need to study it a bit to find out whether you like the way it behaves. I prefer spi or hsi...

Intermittent is fine. Its the law of large numbers. Add some windpower in other places with different winds patterns. Add some solar. Add some hydro and a few nukes and it all balances out nicely.

I've used most of them. The best free one at present seems to be antivir (fast, efficient, detection rate).

The good thing is that he should generate the bounce we need. That will suck the last lot in. Then we can have the depression that the world needs to get past all this profligate spending. So, he is the man that America deserved, and will ultimately deliver what America needs. (I don't...

cvds's reason will be the right one. You are plotting the mid point of bid and ask (unless you chose a different option) with ib's forex not the last price.

1. What version of firefox? Sounds like you might be on 3.0 still - also apples for apples comparisons start without add-ons which can make a big difference to load times. The article above compares 3.1 with google and 3.1 wins one variation and loses the other but the differences are less...

Hmmm. Which is faster? http://lifehacker.com/5044668/beta-browser-speed-tests-which-is-fastest This tests against the pre-release versions of chrome/ff/ie8 before the (faster) version of firefox I now use. Seems the work that was done on 3.1 paid off. So if you care to use ff3.1 or...

Are you sure that chrome is faster (than the latest variants). I'm running firefox 3.2 and I haven't been able to pick a difference whereas chrome was definitely faster than 3.0 What about the speed increase a user gets when he doesn't have to read all the adverts or jump around a poorly...

Its not a racial bias. I know, often like, and sometimes admire a large number of chinese and have for years. From Taiwan, the straights, and those that have escaped from China or more recently left freely. Not one. Lots. Its about the country and the current dominant commy/cap culture...

lol nutmeg. I suspect the linkage is psychological and based on conditioned responses not because the brain does tire on will power tasks. The tiring effect is very short term (minutes and seconds not years). I suppose if you still had the urge then you might have worn yourself out on...

I'm a fan of IB and have traded forex with them (I use Sierra Chart for my charting and do my order entry for forex etc from SC). But to be fair, I've only played with forex as my primary income comes from day trading the asian futures markets. IBs model is honest although because its a real...