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This type of complacency is frightening. Evidently you are unaware that this is also a provision of the health bill. This is much more likely to be passed as a part of some other type of legislation than it is to be passed as a standalone bill. That way the Democrats can vote for it without...

I think you're right. And while in the past we might have said that only in the US could they experience capitalism, that has now ended. We're in for years of "spread the wealth around", taking from productive and giving to the unproductive, courtesy of the Nobama administration, and his...

LOL! So that you know, I've already been trading over 40 years. IF you manage to make it to the 40 year mark, I'll likely be dead. By the way, I according to the ET data, I make 1.18 posts per day. At the rate I doubt it will hinder my trades. Of course, I'm not a tick f*cker either...

Evidently if you have nothing to say about the point that was made, just personally attack. 5% is like betting one chip son. You lose it all, your portfolio is down 5%. In fact, if I understood correctly, you put 1/3 of your 5% to work. LOL! So like I said, big deal. When you get around...

OK, big deal, 5% of your portfolio. Let me know when you make an important financial move. 5% of your money doesn't make any difference at all. "unleveraged" at that. Let me know when you put 1/2 your money to work. That way we know you're committed, you got something to lose AND something...

Using the aircard and my laptop, about 98ms on a ping test to IB. (The aircard is a Sierra Wireless 598 USB device). As a comparision, the laptop on cable is about 50ms.(Edit: Actually this is over my wireless network that I connect to with the laptop). Location Missouri. Very...

I use the Sprint aircard with my laptop. It's an occasional usage when I have to be away from my desktop system hooked to cable. As near as I can tell, I'm using about 4mb every 30 minutes. This is IB TWS with some symbols (lets say 15 symbols), booktrader open for the ES, and no charts...

This wouldn't be the way to trade. If I were you, I'd get a lap top with an aircard. Then you can use TWS, not the mobile service. OldTrader

Same here...futures quotes only, no stock quotes. Restart solved the problem. OldTrader

It always amazes me when someone makes such a definite statement as you have just made. Especially when we all know you have literally no basis for having made it. Here's what we know: the government has just spent, or is in the process of spending, trillions of dollars. That's trillions...

Pelosi is definitely for this tax. I've heard her talk about it before, around the time of TARP. In fact, it was the first time I had heard of a "transaction tax". And I have little doubt that Dodd, Frank, or Harry Reid would be for this. And personally, I don't think either Summers or...

Isn't that the essence of the entire bailout plan? It's unfair to banks that ran their business responsibly by giving to the ones that didn't. Give billions to AIG would be unfair to the responsible insurance companies. Give billions to GM and Chrysler would be unfair to other auto companies...

Anyone know where Galt's Gulch is? OldTrader

I don't want to change the "spirt" of your paragraph and/or post. Frankly though, I don't think I did. Rather, we simply disagree. Read on. It may be true that an account holder will benefit from a liquidation. However, that is different than saying that the policy is "for the account...

It's one of the scans available in TWS. During the day it shows real time info on the items shown there, like advancing issues, declining issues, etc. Then at some point after the market closes, it just goes to single digits as you see there. The single digits really don't represent anything...

Hello TraderNik: I think what you mean is that you "never once suggested" anything in this particular post in this thread. Actually, I was referring to some of your prior posts from about a year ago when you and I got into a disagreement. They can be found in this thread...

All you need is BookTrader. There are other front-end applications as well, like ButtonTrader. The key to all of them though is that one click and your order is transmitted. I think you can also set your TWS page up with hot keys. What you need to do is read the User Manual. OldTrader

I don't think I'd want your setup, because if the future was volatile enough, and the ladder functioning correctly, then it would be jumping back and forth constantly. That would disturb me I think. Either way, BookTrader still seems to center itself properly, although not as often as what...

Here's the bottomline: The liquidation policy is not for your protection. The policy is for IB's protection. The idea is to restore a certain amount of equity to your account, regardless of whether it is convenient for you, happens to be the wrong stock to liquidate, the wrong option, could...

Me too. OldTrader