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Running QT 3.9.8 with the special update. The intraday backfill (through IB / Interactive Brokers) seems not to work when using 20 days on charts. i.e.: yellow message show up: Backfilling IDEALPRO:#EUR.USD but then nothing happens - no error message, no historical data show, just a gap...

Also having connection problems occasionly during the last days. Disconnect lasting for something between 2-30 minutes then reconnect. (Location: Europe) Didn't have such problems before.

Any ideas why crude isn't going up after the storm?

There is something that can be done which is empirically very well proven but unfortunately people talk very little about it (probably because only small money can be made from it): Physical exercise has a big positive effect after a diagnosis of colon (and breast) cancer. Just a small...

Care to explain how you interpret these averages?

When you connect to IB from different instances of TWS you will never receive identical quotes, no matter if paper trading or true account. Generally though paper trading quotes are trustworthy. Sampling interval is quite flexible. In the average it may be around 200 ms. Sometimes it can...

... and may not watch any pictures from Mars!

Recently it seems that the TWS demo is regularily not available at least on part of the weekend (today. also weekend before). Error message is: "Server error". TWS tries to authenticate in an endless loop. As usual clicking on the "View System Status" link on TWS login screen returns...

Please note this thread (from 2007) on ET about Parrondo: http://www.elitetrader.com/vb/showthread.php?s=&threadid=103225&perpage=6&highlight=parrondo&pagenumber=2 Can't say it better than the last post (by Kevin Schmit). If you find a strategy that has the properties of game "B2" you...

"BookTrader" / DOM view: Column widths that are changed (in order to be able to see all digits of price and volume data): TWS forgets the settings after restart and even sometimes after minimizing the window. That makes it necessary to readjust column widths manually over and over...

Requested feedback (by travis) on current status: For me, the problem is no more present for some time now. Thanks to posters and IB.

Don't think about people just trying to harm your account. It is more about people that try to get access to some account in order to use it for their own agenda. For example they might: 1. Buy a significant amount of some penny stock with their own account. 2. Use your account to pump the...

Same here. It's obviously just something IB did in their latest update. Probably something like shortening the time in which TWS tolerates loss of "heartbeat" connection to IB servers. Should be very simple to fix. And sure this may be an issue that's due to some service providers not...

Exactly the same problem here. Came also with last update. Connection is from Europe.

Yes, sure. It's a big business. See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hong_Kong_Jockey_Club "The organization is the largest taxpayer in Hong Kong, as well as the largest private donor of charity funds, contributing an average of over HK$1 billion (approximately US$130 million) annually over...

These are just anecdotes "recorded" by a nurse. There is a good reason why the western world established scientific approaches: It minimizes the subjective influence on results. All that can be learned from this article is how a single person (Susie Steiner) sees the world and which...

For quite some time I am using now realtime data and using it for trading and further strategy development. There is one major lesson I learned on the way: Every bit of data that can be saved should be saved. (Because at some point in time you will develop an idea how you could make use of...

Yes, obviously. It's just overwhelming how easy it is for human beings to ignore rational argumentation and think only in the lines of preconceived opinions.

Congratulations. Sincerely. If this opinion shall be tested that's easy: Give GS a call and tell them about the successfull strategy. Then wait a week and see whether it is still working. But perhaps with the question ("how many people does it need ...") you were up to something else...

It takes one player with deep pockets to make an existing strategy stop working. Why are big players entering the market at all? They want to make money. In order to achieve this they have to take it from other (preferrably smaller) players. If a true big player spots a strategy that...