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And also make sure backtest your strategy thoroughly before throw in real money, the current market situation is just returning to normal. If the strategy cannot accomodate it, try to find some strategy of different logic which can take advantage of the current market situation. Diversification...

Have you been trading a real account £¿ Drawdown is part of the game, accept it. But if drawdown exceeds a pre-determined amount, shut down the strategy.

A public Chinese company can issue 2 kinds of stocks in China: A share is in RMB, listed in China, only available to chinese citizen and big overseas institution through a QFII mechnism B share is in USD, listed in China, available to anyone with USD, chinese or foreign. There are also...

Well,we know it's crazy, but just try to follow the trend. After all it may be the first and yet the last great bull market one can experience in a life. I don't trade stocks, but suggested my mother to re-allocated half of her money in A-share to B-share stock last week, it's a bit much...

Last Friday night,scared by the bubble in the domestic A-share stock market, Chinese government cancelled restriction on chinese citizen to invest in overseas security market. Now the huge Chinese people's saving can ( and definately will ) flow to foreign stock markets, Hong Kong is the first...

Take it easy. Just one of those common bad days.

Yes indeed, not a good day for both swing and intraday traders.

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A disaster for overnight systems.

Gladly to annouce that now it is a solved problem. Originally I always got US time (GMT -5:00 format time ) though I am located in Shanghai, China (GMT +8:00 time ), and the timezone setting in my Windows OS has always been GMT+8:00, which is correct for my timezone. last night I got a...

Hi, this problem remains though I have upgraded to Java 1.6.0_01 and TWS build 871.3 Has IB solved this problem ? My TWS still shows time of the timezone of the US server, I need it to show the timezone of my location, which is 13 hours earlier.

I am also trading HSI with ATS , I am sure Def's comments has fully answered the original question.

maybe there is a simple solution: open two IB accounts, one for unbundled rates, one for bundled rate product like SGXNK

what about the average volume of last five trading days of the contract of December 2007 ?

I am looking for a platform which can transfer small amount efficiently. I did not have good experience with paypal, last time I registered one account there, and half year later I keep receiving mails requesting me to imput password into a fake paypal website. HKFE post daily HFI report of...

Thanks a lot def, that fully answered my question.

Hi, I have a question regarding HSI premarket bidding. HSI is traded from 0945-1230 / 1430-1615 local time. Sometimes I want to take part in the pre-market bidding before the open of either AM or PM session, from when to when is the time for this pre-market bidding ? And if you have made the...

The april contract traded 501 contracts last friday. Fortunate to be born in a volatile period.

I am also interested in trading indian market only to find Nifty at SGX is too illiquid

FTSE had a lawsuit with the Shanghai Security Exchange who is its data provider at the time of FTSE Xinhua launch. China planned to launch its own A-share stock index futures contract and did not like an overseas exchange to steal the spotlight. HFI does not has such obstacles. I expect it to be...