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I'm also having problems today.

The liquidity starts picking up around 7:30 am Chicago time. And usually there are some US economic numbers coming out at this time. After 3 pm, usually there aren't much movement.

No, not yet :) Well I mastered the markets, now I'm trying to master myself!

Something was wrong with ER2. It went down with a volume of about 1200 and then back up with almost same volume to couple of points of below the previous "normal" level.

Actually, IB has been rock solid for me for a long time. Today's down time was kind of surprising. I LOVE IB :-)

It's up now. It was the longest downtime for me for a while--almost 15 minutes...

IB down here in NW. It's been almost 10 minutes now!!!!

If you can find a company to hire you, they'll get you an H-1 visa which shouldn't be a big problem. Getting the visa itself is not difficult but the company has to see something extra in you to wait and pay for your visa. I suggest that you enter US with a tourist visa, rent a small place to...

Hi Andy, I'm running a quite simple system and I don't have much tweaking to do. If I tweak I'll end up curve fitting.

Hi all, I see that you guys keep this thread live and interesting. We're getting close to 100k views :) I'm still not trading EUR but I'm monitoring my system on it. I'm currently trading the Eurodollar and Russel 2000 futures. Here's the equity curve (per contract) for the EUR futures for...

I'm telling people that I'm an "Independent Futures Trader". To the ladies, I passionately describe what I do without going into too many details. I tell them the price patterns forming in real -time are almost like an art form for me. I then tell them that I wouldn't do anything else...

After going back and forth between IB and Globex for the last couple of days, my mystery is solved. The limit and stop trigger prices in my stop-limit order was fine but the distance between them was too much. I had 40 ticks between them and that's why the order was rejected (although it was...

To do what?

I guess I mean both of them. You're right a persistant hacker might figure out what's going on but if I use what I described it won't be very straightforward. I'm using a software firewall but I'll also get a router soon.

Also, people tend to "remember" the times when stopped out but forget them when profis are taken within couple of ticks of a swing hi/lo.

just21, Thanks for the suggestion. I'm aware of TWSStart but I'm trying to do this from my own program. tripack, That's a good start. There are some advanced algorithms for deeper encryption. I need to think about this more to be able do it as hacker proof as possible.

Thanks Tripack. I'm very familiar with your and other programs in that list. But I don't remember seeing any encryption methods in your auto-login code.

It's running locally. I'm trying to protect it against hackers hacking into my PC. For auto-login, I need to save my username and password and encrypt/decrypt it somehow. I just thought about this. I can encrypt them using a key generated by a hardware specific number (something from the...

Thanks for the suggestion. But I'd like to be able to do this from my own application. How safe is your username and password using this program?

I'm planning to add a module to my VB.NET ATS application for TWS auto-login. However, I want to encrypt the username and password. Does anyone have pointers for safely doing this? Thanks. Edit: I want to save an encrypted version of my username and password. However, if somebody gets a...