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    Someone cleaned up my IB account (almost)

    Get the pro version of Zone Alarm , it is cheap and is better then the free version .
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    IB's Front End Software

    Once you get used to the software it is pretty decent . The trade off is the commission savings so I can deal with it.
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    Best and Worst CNBC Commercials

    This goes back about 3 years : I was watching CNBC once when that Bitch Maria actually had the nerve to yell at one of the floor brokers for getting in front her camera while she was live . It was a short time after that , that I did not see her for a while and was hoping that they canned her...
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    Best and Worst CNBC Commercials

    just though of another annoying one. I think it is a Schwab commercial with the 2 sisters babbling and the one keeps interrupting the other . They are almost as annoying as Maria B during her commentary at the market open.
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    Best and Worst CNBC Commercials

    Yea that fidelity commercial sucks . A map of the market , what the hell is a map of the market . Anyone who followed that map over the last 2 years got lost real bad. !!!
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    Best and Worst CNBC Commercials

    I like the fed ex commercial also , I forgot about that one . Great commercial.
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    Best and Worst CNBC Commercials

    Best - The new commercial with the bull and cow , also the commercial where the guys jumps out the first floor window after going nuts Day Trading. Worst - where the 2 guys are at work and the one guy gets the stock for a few cents less then the other guys , even though they supposedly...
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    Monitors for Sale

    I will give you 300 quatlues for the monitors . Only those who watched the original Star trek will understand !!
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    Win2000 w/AMD

    You probably have an irq conflict with you pci cards. Try this : Take out all your pci cards except the video card ( if you use an agp as your primary and have 2 cards then take out the secondary video card leave the AGP in) : Try to boot . If it does not boot then move the video card...
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    DSL Telco nightmare

    I am one of the lucky ones to have fiber with Gemini Networks. I normally get over 2 mb a sec down and 512 KB up . I also have dsl , get about 1 Mb down 100 KB up. The fiber connections are very new. I dont know of anyone getting 8 MB speeds just yet but the lines can handle it when it is...
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    RDRAM v.s. DDR RAM, v.s. SDRAM

    I just upgraded to a P-4 1.8 with 512 PC 2700 DDR ram. The old pc was a p 3 667 with 640 megs of 133 mz ram. Both run great , obvioulsy the P4 is faster and better. Go with the p4 . This is what i have for my main trading system: P4 1.8 with 512 cashe 512 megs of PC 2700 ram (...
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    WIN 2000 or WIN XP?

    WIn 2000 all the way !!!!! Great operating system .
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    Upgrade Home computer for Trading

    Don't bother with the dual video card , win 98 and above supports 2 video cards. Get an AGP and a pci vid card . I use ATI stuff. My new system that I just upgraded: P4 - 1.8 gig 512 cashe asus ps4333 - motherboard ATI Radeon 32 meg AGP All in wonder pro vid card ATI Expert 16 meg...
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    Intraday Breakouts

    Correct you are sir , decimals suck big time !!! Those days of getting a quick 1/8 or 1/4 are now more like a quick 5 or 10 cents. And low interest rates suck also especially if you have a lot of cash !!! :-}
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    IB Downtime

    I have also experienced disconnects every day for the last few days. If this keeps up its going to be a problem . Low commissions are great but that wont make up for this thing going down on me and not beginning able to get out of a trade. I do have an account at MB trading for backup .
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    trade mornings only?

    Hi John , I enjoy seeing your activity log everyday . Would you break down you trades as to if they were shorts or longs. Also the time frame for each trade, I want to look at a chart after the fact. Who are you using as a broker??
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    Anyone that lives in CT, RI, MA

    Connecticut here .
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    trade mornings only?

    Tough Day for you today , I have had many of those. The First week of January I tried to short on 1/3 . You remember that was the day the market went up about 200 points . Well I was trying to short INTC with 1000 share trades , got my ass handed to me. That week I lost about $ 1600 and that...
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    DSL, Cable modem or Satelite?

    I am one of those lucky ones who has this service. I have a DSL backup and had @ home . Gemini blows everything out there away. Now who knows what will happen if thier network were to get saturated like @ home did.
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    DSL, Cable modem or Satelite?

    $ 35 a month . It is not available in many areas yet.
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