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someone is a liberal :p i heard in history class that god removed all the dinosaurs around 3000 BC.

have you ever tried backtesting with your bot taking opposite positions that what it is currently set up to?

sigh. i always have a hard time with people getting preachy on forums like this. i believe if someone is in the position to preach about a subject like trading, they would not be wasting their time on an internet forum trying to 'enlighten' relative newbies to the trading game. <b>to the...

this means iv been giving that homeless guy on the corner 2.41x the amount of money I thought I was? bastard. hes too clever for me.

C. If they make unrealistic promises like 'guaranteed fills even during news events' D. If they make claims like 'biggest forex provider in the history of mankind' E. If they try too hard to get your business regardless of how little you plan on putting into the account / or your experience...

the small differences in retail forex quotes as well as issues with fills should not have any effect on you if you are trading mid-long term fundamentals. 1-2 pips stolen wont make the difference on 100 pip moves. i personally trade short term so i am trying to stay away from retail forex.

is it wrong that i agree with every one of those points? i know from experience if i could get guaranteed fills on prices that i see coming in it would be possible to money hand over fist at 0% risk. thats not the case though. hence systems making 10k+, 0% negative trades, a day on paper...

who told you about my parking permit?

frost. what kind of average slippage do you see?

The Superior Court cares about (insert expletive noun here) calling each other names on internet forums now? Thank god I am not an American tax payer.

How long do you normally stay in positions?

id imagine IB throttles their backfill bandwidth based on total usage to minimize the average bandwidth requirements => minimizing network costs.

is there any 'actual' reason why people think the fibonacci sequence has any relevance to market movements? other than how it sounds italian. iv never done any research into it, but intuitively there should be no relation between the two.

does IB offer forex liquidity from Currenex? If not... why?

I am new to finance. Iv been seeing references to different series qualifications all throughout this board. Would anyone mind letting me know what series 3, series 7 etc are? Why do people bother getting them? Id imagine being a day trader qualifications mean nothing.

let me get this straight.. the more screens => the better the trader right? the computer that I use to trade doesn't even have a screen plugged in... uh oh.

IB should make hardware accelerated charting. Would be a lot less sluggish, they should also start displaying the data as it downloads, retrieving the most recent data first.

people who are doing chemo often feel very ill, because of it have trouble eating and keeping food down. they suffer greatly from this lack of appetite. apparently pot helps out a lot in this situation. penn and teller gave an example of this on their war on drugs episode.

possibly. thats a bit sad. i could have written them a system that is 100% guaranteed not to cause them to lose money. of course. it might not always perform as quickly as systems which assume they can hedge quickly in the future. im not sure if retail traders can put a dent in it. from what...

nah. banks only have one agenda, to make money. from what i understand they do so by offering artificial liquidity which is actually just orders the assume they will get in the future, or already have waiting for a fill. most of the time in normal market conditions the bank can match your...