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Most important, not necessarily favorite, line is this: "The professional concerns himself with doing the right thing rather than with making money, knowing that the profit takes care of itself if the other things are attended to." And this sounds like a Yogiism: "Speculation is a hard and...

But we all still use IB. IB is frustrating at times and I hope they shape up. If I ever find a better broker, I will switch. But I can't find anybody better and I am still quite happy IB. They have never messed up anything with my account. I've never had the system go down when I needed to...

It all depends on what you are doing. I built my system in Excel and it is automated, but I wouldn't recommend it for everybody. Here's why I use Excel: - Trade end of week. Speed of execution is not tremendously important. My trades get done in a second or two. But if you are scalping...

I agree with this approach when it comes to withdrawing money. But why do we have to call for other changes? I would also have less of a problem if I didn't have to wait on hold for 20 minutes. Like I have nothing to do all day.

I have the same problem. Got an e-mail from them and called them. Turns out my grandfather has to call them (I am the second user). So why did they send it to my e-mail address instead of his? I always liked IB because their executions and rates are good. But if they are going to force...

Grampa: Put it all on 41. [nudges Homer] I've got a feeling about that number. Roulette man: The wheel only goes to 36. Grampa: Okay, put it all on 36. [nudges Homer] I've got a feeling about that number.

Put it all on red. Then black. Then red again. You'll have your million plus an extra $800K.

I am sure they are too. And considering the trouble Bear may (or may not be in), I am not too worried. I won't worry about them until I am over the SIPC limit and then I'll start looking at how to protect myself.

I don't care where there money is coming from. A brokerage firm that small, not growing, and whose stock is declining is more at risk of problems.

I thought IB would be doing better. This concerns me as a customer.

Really? 5.63%? My works shows a 4.265465% move.

But they don't have volume on the SPX like Yahoo does. I also found that MSN has historical quotes and SPX volume. Good to have two sources.

I thought this was the reason, but double checked to make sure. "Note that the drop in the futures price in for March 2000 contract is due to the change of the discount rate in the conversion factor (from 8% to 6%)." http://www.rci.rutgers.edu/~rchen/timing.pdf page 25

Both "tricks" work. Thanks a lot.

Yahoo historical data on some symbols (SPY, ^SPX/^GSPC) has not been working. Anybody know of alternative sites to download historical data? Specifically, I need SPX volume (which Yahoo has/had).

Polar bears are strong swimmers; they swim across bays or wide leads without hesitation. They can swim for several hours at a time over long distances. They've been tracked swimming continuously for 100 km (62 mi.) (Stirling, 1988).

That would be a 10 billion dollar market cap.....

Does it support multiple instances of TWS (multiple accounts)?

The economy didn't really pick up until after the Revolution was over. NYC getting destroyed by the Brits and it's population dropping by about 2/3rds didn't help. And when the Brits approached Philly, many people fled for the hills.

This week is really weird. I hope I got all the facts straight. Friday morning, the employment report comes out as usual. Originally, the bond market was to be closed Friday and close early Thursday for Good Friday. Realizing that the employment report is coming out, they changed their...