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What the heck are black cards? ". . .your black cards can make you money. . ."

On the wargames website, he claims that one can make money playing craps at the casino. If so, why hasn't he written a program to play these casinos OL? Then, he could afford to give his seminars away :D.

I had this idea some time ago, a way to deposit tax deductable money into your ROTH IRA. First, buy a thinly traded stock during market hours from a normal trading account. Then, after hours, put in a lowball bid (but still the highest bid) from your ROTH IRA account to some ECN. Then, hit...

While this wasn't addressed to me, I'll jump in anyways :D My problem is that SMART will sometimes route to NYSE sometimes when my system needs to get out in a hurry. Say the Qs are .20x.25 ISLD, the market is moving up, NYSE is .20x.21. So SMART will be .20x.21. My system "knows" this is...

Uhm. I wasn't whining. It was funny what Baron said. And, this board is an excellent source of info, and even some amusement.

It's pretty good, not much to figure out. You can read the docs at https://www.interactivebrokers.com/html/webhelp/webhelp.htm Two cautions for you, however. First, I think it is still officially Beta. Second, there is no routing(!) You can only send orders via "SMART", which chooses...

Rats, I thought "Italian" was a new way to trade. :D

LMAO. Baron is on the job, responding in 8 minutes! Unfortunately, he probably has to do this all to often. You have my thanks for running this site, Baron.

Just so you know, assembling a computer is pretty simple. If you've very swapped out video cards, memory and/or hard disks, you are halfway there. And if you do a lot of research, you can build an awesome machine for a good price. Check out some hardware sites like Anandtech and Sharkyextreme...

There is a lot of passion in the ranks of hard core hardware types concerning AMD vs. Intel. Not sure on the latest rankings, but when I built my PC a couple months ago, nothing was faster than an Intel with PC1066 RDRAM. Nothing. You'll definately want to RAID your drives. Check their...

Here's an example. Say the QQQs are .23x.24 SMART, .20x.24 ISLD and my system is long and needs an immediate exit. So, it'll send a sell at .20 (via SMART `cuz that's the only way to route via APIs). SMART looks at it and says "Hey, I can make 3 cents for this guy and hit the .23" and...

It might just be my system, but I frequently will get price improvements on SMART versus the ISLD bid or ask on my trading program that uses the API. On the other hand, there are times when the market is about to move very fast, and I get screwed by SMART. Sure be nice when IB has order...

Oh yeah. In addition to those updates, MS has fixed many other bugs. When a customer finds a bug, MS can fix it for them. That fix is called a "hotfix", and it's not as thoroughly tested as Service Packs are. After some time, Microsoft puts a bunch of hotfixes together (and whatever else...

If you are writing in VB and using the ActiveX control, it's very easy to crank out an app to do whatever you need. Provided (of course) that you know how to code.

Sure I believe it: "NO representation is being made that any account will OR is likely to achieve profits. Regard all reports AND text/audio references to trading as hypothetical. " In other words, they didn't trade these trades. And, at $460/contract profit for the day, why not? If...

For Fifty Bucks it will.

I would disagree with that statement indicating success as a trader. If you cannot see the market for what it is, but can only see what you want, you're toast. And, I would add this score to the evaluation: 90 and above: Forget it, you can't add right :D

Hmmmm. . . when I read the title of this thread, I thought it was another joker calling a bottom. But it's not. If nobody calls a bottom on Elite Trader this weekend, could it be that we finally hit it? I doubt it. But it sure is fun to speculate.

No way man. We need to see lundy through in the towel and take some short positions. That'd signal a new Bull :D

Lundy is busy getting cash advances on his credit cards to "double down" yet again (for the fourth double down?), and cover his margin calls. :D If we see a little bounce up, I'm sure he'll be back in all his glory.