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At least one more leg down to go - bottom is getting in sight but there will still be some wiggles before it can start to going up again. Need to shake out those last few hands. Maria

I agree - well done IB! Likely it is not high enough with the liquidity drying up rapidly. Maria

Did they not close trading for three months in the 30's? Just make sure you do not get caught out. If I look at our system then I see signs that the automatic trading by the bots is totally aggravating this situation. The bots relentlessly carry on in the major direction and try to keep...

Schabacker based on the 1930 crash: when the market has recovered 40% then it is time to sell. Maria

Hmmm, lets see. After the great depression measures were put in place to prevent this from happening again. So some new kids come on the block and have never experienced the great depression. These kids go "We now know how the market operates, these measures are not required, we have it...

Trailing stop all the way down to 113^100 on the 10 year notes. Maria

Black boxes have had their time for some time to come. Volatility has returned to the markets, finally. Time to make some serious money. :D :D :D Maria

Have been using Truecrypt for many, many years. Nice thing is that you cna use it without installing so that you can out it on an USB key and get to your data on a computer where it is not installed. Had a commercial one before but Truecrypt rules. way to go! Maria

If you purely look at a short term perspective then you are right. If you are looking at that it is election year, that summer is coming and are looking at a little bit longer timeframe then it is just another game that is being played. regards Maria

Get a Lenovo wide screen, anything else is wasting time and money. Alomost all the others are consumer products and not build for business reliability. The clincher is that the Lenovo software support for drivers and their upgrades is the best out there, even Toshiba cannot come close...

Better take note of this. The Germans speak from experience: they tried to do the same thing back in the 1940's. A few big companies controlling the government and starting war's under false pretences on different fronts. It's no different with the US this time around. E.g. "Let's find...

A most insightfull piece of information and recipe why so many loose money trading. Financially seen: Useless academic waffle. Maria

TradeStation 2000i, still available outside the US and feed it with IQfeed. IB was slow to fill too.... Maria

At times outages with IQfeed too. At present it is gone again. Still no volume on IB, only last size. IMHO Machines having a field day at the moment. Keeping on watching. Maria

As we would say here down under: Yeah right ... Sometimes you can overdo the ... (proverbial bovine brown matter). My 4 year old cousin comes home: "daddy I have been a good boy, I have not been close to the water". Dad praises him. I remark: "Did he not go out with his trike?"...

I wonder whom of the executives / friends / family etc took on a decent position in options? Risk free trade imho. Maria

Yes, it happened regularly in the 10 year notes (ZN) during this last week - every time there was some extreem activity the quotes stopped coming. However, before anyone blames IB, I use IQfeed for my data and they happened to have the same problem at the same time. Thus is was the ECBOT...

never found order flow to be very useful in longer term trading, it is imho only usefull for short term trading. Maria

Good old tradestation 2000i with IQfeed as datafeed, IB as broker with a backup broker. Sit tight for only a few trades in a week but when we are in then only for a short timespan. Focussing on the "gotcha" trades. Maria

Been there and done that. Depends on how big 15k is in % to your account. Can remember being up 30% in the account only to finish up 30% down. Hard thing is to get back (mentally) from there. PS one thing is sure: when you have a big down day like that it surely makes you rethink your...