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    what to do when you're screwed

    Jesse Livermore went broke many times over his career. Four years is nothing. "we're all just one trade away from humility bud"
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    ARCA and IB

    arca and redi have been merging systems which has been a technology nightmare apparently.
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    IB disconnected many times

    That redi/arca technology merger looks like it's a total nightmare lol.
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    Are all prop firms money sucking, greedy, evil, capitalist pigs?

    Yes.
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    Day trading in Canada

    Stick with IB. The rest of these Canadian outfits are tiny and/or franchises operations of U.S. operations with much higher fees and much less capital.
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    IB disconnected many times

    the tws quotes for eminis seem to be updating faster today? is this a result of the upgrade or that piece of chocolate cake I had for breakfast?
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    IB, Globex and Limit / Stop Orders

    I assume this is not the auto stop feature that has been much discussed on IB boards? THat feature involved regular mkt/limit stops and not trailing stops.
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    Gold and commodities

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    Missing the big picture

    There are times to scalp, times to swing trade, and times to sit on your hands. The trick is knowing when to do each. If you look back at July and early August everyone was making a killing scalping all day long in those large intraday ranges. Since then the market has lost alot of it's...
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    IB drops DOW mini r/t cost to $2.52

    IB Slashes Commissions on the CBOT mini-sized Dow Even Further As a result of the CBOT waiving all fourth quarter exchange fees for Dow stock index products, IB's mini-sized Dow futures commissions will drop to $1.26 per contract, beginning October 1. This commission rate will be effective...
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    Futures Magazine vs. Technical Analysis of S&C

    I prefer http://www.appliederivatives.com to either TASC or Futuresmag.
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    e-miNY Crude Oil & Natural Gas

    Is this thing live thru TWS yet? Anyone traded them yet?
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    Holy Cr*p ISLD blocked from providing QQQ ,DIA, and SPY full book quotes

    um ...the Nasdaq owns the AMEX...last I heard.
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    These people who are shorting ES tonight ...

    there is ONE certainty...the markets will FLUCTUATE ;)
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    These people who are shorting ES tonight ...

    you MUST be long:)
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    salaries in the financial market

    Depends on the broker. But generally client service is better(not necessarily rates of return) the more assets you have as a client.
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    salaries in the financial market

    stockbrokers = financial planners now. Your pay is directly correlated to your assets under administration.(.025% to 2% annual fees on assets). Some of the largest brokers make 5-10 mil a year. Takes years though to build that type of book. Typical salary is closer to 250-500k for an average...
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    Compar futures brokers

    http://www.siliconinvestor.com/stocktalk/subject.gsp?subjectid=52773
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    IB Downtime

    down again quotes frozen edit back up @ 1157am
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    IB Downtime

    back up ..1/2 hr outage..baaad.
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