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I'll take that answer to be a no on the multi-millionaire question. Why not?

Apparently we are in the company of many multi-millionaires in this thread - congrats. Either that or they have the ability and just choose not to use it. Plenty of liquidity on YM, if the claims about the ease of large returns are true there is no reason why anyone who can do it would not...

I don't mean to get into your business but mspaint is really lame. Have you considered using something else instead?

There is plenty of software out there to monitor your internet connection. For starters you can just run a continuous PING to your first hop gateway at your ISP, just open a DOS/CMD window and do "ping -t (some IP address)". You could have a second window continuously pinging your broker's IP...

Or if want to make sure it isnt some sort of browser/proxy setting causing the problem you can do what I always use when troubleshooting - telnet on port 80, takes the whole browser issue out of the equation. "telnet interactivebrokers.com 80" If it works it will connect and seem to hang...

Ditto - I have been burned with cheap memory in the past and learned my lesson to steer clear of that. You can easily run into problems if you just look for the cheapest "generic" memory on PriceGrabber. There is lower-quality memory out there, probably rejects from the major mem...

It likely never was and will not be in the future. Many big site aren't pingable. Ignoring (dropping) ping packets is an easy way to deal with a whole category of ICMP denial of service attacks. Makes it harder to troubleshoot problems like this tho.

The reason is the same reason that $60 per day sounds easily obtainable to some - its such a small number so at first blush it seems like no big deal but if you annualize the yield and compare it to what the average trader is actually doing it becomes obvious that the OP would need to be in the...

There are both software (installed on each PC, ex: http://www.netlimiter.com/) as well as hardware (routers with QOS features, ex Linksys RVS4000) solutions to this depending on which way you want to go (and how much you are willing to pay)

206.106.137.3 is not responding to ping (icmp) therefore you wont see it in traceroute (that's why I did a separate ping test) Accessing it for HTTP (tcp 80) is a completely separate issue.

Ugh...please don't! Much better file recovery software out there. Ontrack Easy Recovery for starters. Cache Landing, were you able to install the old HD as a slave and read it ok?

Errr, ok, but we are talking about YM futures trading here, not YM future options - are we not?

So the correct number is 430%? =(4000+60*220)/4000 Still an eye-popping number and the kind of return that would allow one to become a millionaire fairly quickly before any slippage issues due to trading size became a problem in YM (note that I am not making a "would own the planet in XX...

Note that according to WhoIs the whole 206.106.137.0/24 net is registered to Timber Hill.

Shhhhhh....don't jinx yourself by saying that. :)

Really? I don't understand how you could do this efficiently - you would have to clear out all the standing bids/offered in order to hit your own queued order from the other account. Would this take massive amounts of money to do, risking far more then the $100k?

Some interesting troubleshooting here. IDS gave you the URL using the IP address. That takes DNS out of the equation. If some people can reach the URL (I can) and some people can't then its very unlikely that its a problem on IB's end.

No doubt that UNIX based OS's have less interest from attackers but another reason why they tend to have less problems is that the average person using UNIX-based OS's is a heck of a lot more knowledgable then the average Windows user. If the same population who own Windows PC's today...

The thing about a journal is that it would be easy to fake/lie about the results (especially small differences in entry and exit points due to the time it takes to post) and of course if it goes against the person they can just quit at any time. I suspect with $100k on the line the style of...

Actually Kevin said that both parties put the $100k in escrow which is a lot different from simply showing that you have $100k. In the history of the internet has any escrow bet actually ever really occurred or is it just a way to end a discussion? I suspect the latter.