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Nice trades, not easy at these nose bleed levels.

Well you can buy edible underpants. Now someone needs to develop a car that runs on cheap pants.

How insightful.. Did your big colorful book of history for 5 year olds tell you that?

2 words. Sandra Smith can't see any other reason.

Lol... nice one.

What pair/future do you trade?

Thanks, I appreciate the kind words.

I fully admit my idiocy in the first place caused this. But I don't think asking for an explanation how a 4 lot order got executed when my account was busted or why I was given incorrect information on the phone is asking too much.

Thanks. Either way I'm looking forward to looking back on this week in a years time and laughing about it.

True enough. I have been profitable for a while now trading stocks and indices, unfortunately a greedy moment of madness in a market I'm less familiar with has cost me big. I'll be back with a very different perspective no matter what the outcome of this is.

Yeah it's a big boys game and I don't like complaining which is why I left it to now to post my story here (I gave IB 4 days to answer my queries) I just want some facts and figures from IB, my exact account size when the July contracts were executed and the exact amount of margin I needed to...

Yes I'm an idiot and I deserve to lose money. I've definitely learnt a big lesson, and I'll be back. But Your second paragraph is exactly my point, My account was worth zero before the July contracts were executed. Before the Monday night session opened limit orders to buy were rejected...

I agree with the points you make and appreciate the input. I was a monumentally stupid trade and I understand the mechanics of margin once the July trade was executed. But that's not my argument. My argument is that the July trade should have never have been executed as the March position...

Fun with IB I know there are some dumb trading decisions in the below post, please refrain from the lectures as I have learnt my lesson. I was short 4 lots of ZW wheat at the close of the day session on Monday, I could see through DOM the were no sellers in the night sesion until the next...

You could download the historical prices from Yahoo (Excel format) and do the calculations in Excel. http://finance.yahoo.com/q/hp?s=AAPL

Thanks.. Here: http://www.cbot.com/cbot/pub/cont_detail/0,3206,1322+14398,00.html it says it's 30c Those Idiots could cost someone a lot of money.

Is wheats limit still 60c? or is back to 30c now? That realease is very unclear if it was permanent or not, and www.ecbot.com says the daily limit is 30.

Yeah, boring as hell, I've switched over to Colbert.

ER = Russel futures ES = S&P Futures YM = DOW Futures ES, ER trade on Globex YM on ECBOT Look at their websites for more info www.ecbot.com www.cme.com edit: These are the eminis, less $$ per tick than the full size contracts.

My TWS says ZW MAR 08 finished down 34 3/4 at 1058 1/4. ino.com and ecbot website say it finished down 45 at 1048. Anyone else getting an incorrect settlement price from IB? Thanks