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You've obviously never had the misfortune of living in a country that decides to slam the exit door shut when too many people decide that things are so bad that they need to take the money and run. History books are full of examples. Having all the money stashed in the bank is no use when the...

Many brokers dont allow you take delivery. There are significant costs involved in delivering.

Technically the Korean war of 1950-1953 is still being fought -- the cessation of hostilities on July 27, 1953 was just a ceasefire. It seems that certain countries (like those that have military forces stationed in Japan and South Korea for example) do not wish there to be a resolution of the...

I think you are underestimating the complexity of the FIX protocol used to communicate from TWS to the IB servers -- all of which is hidden from us by the current design of the TWS API. Most other brokers that offer a pure FIX connection a) charge an arm and a leg and b) require complex and...

The dictionary definition of deflation is: "A persistent decrease in the level of consumer prices or a persistent increase in the purchasing power of money because of a reduction in available currency and credit." Be careful not to confuse cause and effect.

None of the posts mentions time of day either. Regular market hours? Or pre/post market?

Your broker may have some payment for order flow arrangements and your order may have been filled off the floor.

Vote with your mouse and find some other financial news site

The answer can probably be found somewhere in the ownership / interest of those mysterious funds located in the "Carribean banking centers". Ever wonder why they are so reluctant to start regulating the hedge funds?

"Give me control over a nation's currency and I care not who makes its laws." Baron M.A. Rothschild

"The war on terror" has been the most effective excuse they've managed to dream up in order to justify deficit spending.

The arrogance, conceit and lordiness embodied in this one sentence is probably the best explanation why this conflict has dragged on for 60 years.

There does not appear to be a universal definition of "tick". Some vendors seem to include both sides of the trade as separate ticks. What would YOU expect if a resting 10 lot order in the book got taken out by 10 successive 1 lot orders? a) 10 individual ticks each with size == 1 b) 1...

hahahaha! Its amazing that it took a communist government to beat the champions of capitalism at their own game. All the foreigners are doing is defending their investments from the thieves that are trying to devalue their way out of the abyss.

Russia has just paid off all its debt. (Coincidentally?) tomorrow is the first day that all foreign exchange restrictions will be lifted and the Rouble will be 100% convertible for the first time. http://www.ft.com/cms/s/97c20938-07d5-11db-9067-0000779e2340.html Perhaps all the noise...

Check the shortcut you use to start TWS. On my machine the command line contains this parameter "-Xmx160M" which means that the memory footprint should be allowed to grow to 160M. You could experiment reducing this value in increments of 20M until you find a value that suits you.

Self-dealing is one of the few regulations that appears to be strictly enforced by the futures exchanges.

You would also need to acquire this http://www.traderssoft.com/ts/sdk/ or something similar as Omega never released the specs to write into the Globalserver database.

Kevin Steele was mentioned in this thread also http://www.elitetrader.com/vb/showthread.php?s=&threadid=70890

If you think your house has really doubled in "value" since you bought it, you should try to sell it and buy 2 comparable houses in the same location with the proceeds. Its all an illusion. In the old days when money was real they used to say that all the gold that one man could carry in two...