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Hey. I'm wondering if anyone has any experience with using IB's FIX API and could answer a few questions. How was the performance compared to TWS API? How much did you pay? Is it possible to get the initial setup fee waived if commissions are high enough? Is there offered open...

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hah.. ya.. they are not at war.. they are in jihad (see definition of jihad). true there is sectarian violence going on. it seems pointless to talk about the innocent civilians dying from suicide bombers without discussing the vast majority of civilian deaths caused by US military actions. the...

very true. mammals. the genus of suicide (esp lemmings). we merely have to kill off all the mammals. problem solved. generalization is a great way to understand a problem. note: generalizing a species or gender is as useful as generalizing a religion of billions.

i am delighted you are in tune with the wants of every muslim female in the planet. i can picture a new gibson movie 'what muslim women want'. this time with stuff blowing up. note. a fair chunk of suicide bombers do think they are war, think of themselves as soldiers and do attack military...

i somewhat remember kamikazes in the second world war. oh wait. i forgot japan was muslim. ps. i am reasonably confident the ratio of male/female suicide bombers is higher than the ratio of muslim/non-muslim suicide bombers. gender is a far better indicator of predispositions to suicide...

Since almost all suicide bombers are male. Male must be the gender of suicide. There must be some biological supportive factors that continues to create suicide bombers in male specific genetics. Males have XY chromosomes while females have XX, obviously Y must be the chromosome of suicide...

how did eur / nok arch go? i cant seem to find an online chart of it.

if you are using trailing stops you might consider having multiple trailing stops. which slowly scales you out as the price drops. to help prevent one large movement jumping over your main stop. maybe sell 50% off at the 50% distance from your current stop. another 25% at 75% to your current...

how is it free after 10 lots? how does TS make their money? isn't IB the only ones collecting a commission or does TS add some on top of that?

how would a bank identify a specific trader if the orders are being routed through a broker? not sure how they would 'bitter' the taste to persistent offenders.

excused. i just hope it works as well 2-3 months down the road when i'll have a chance to research it. :D knock on wood.

ES have you traded exotic pairs before? I always thought the huge spreads made them useless.

no messages were sent back from TWS. since they wernt on the audit report as place orders. i assume they were never arrived or tws ignored them? im not 100% sure my system sent the orders, i dont see any reason why my system would say its sending an order and it not go through though. anyone at...

Hey guys. I had something very strange happen to me this morning. I am using IB's TWS C++ Socket API and attempted to place 12 orders at one time , within 1 second, (on my paper trading account). Looking at the audit report it seems only two of those trades arrived at TWS. I assume the audit...

backtesting over a few years of data might find a good avg stop time. running a simple optimization alg on the time stop. anyone doing backtests with golden arches care to try this?

the thing about that method which does'nt sit well with me. why is the limit order the correct place to re-enter the position, is that the optimal place? why not use some system to decide when its best to re-enter it? (ie. your current system) it gets me thinking that it might be similar or...

I understand that the CR expects it to go down. The price jumped from 1.6425 to about 1.6600 at the news event. After a day you could have seen that is it not going to correct quickly. Say the 2nd day you closed your short position at 1.6625. and set a limit order a bit greater than the...

im curious why you didn't close the position after the initial loss, preventing exposer from the slow trend we've seen over the past week, and having a limit order ready to catch and re-enter on the way back down. i am not 100% convinced about holding positions through large negative swings...