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    Bond rally nearing an end?

    What fraction of the "free money" that was being dispensed by the Japanese Central Bank ended up being invested in US Treasuries? 1%? 10%? 50%? What do you think is/was the cause of Greenspan's long term rate conundrum?
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    FFMERM kicking off is it true?

    The official name for the PPT is the "Working Group on Financial Markets". It was created by executive order 12631 http://www.reagan.utexas.edu/archives/speeches/1988/031888d.htm in 1988.
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    Black Monday

    Actually, measured in terms of the gold price, stocks are much lower than 2002 and falling like a rock. This chart shows the number of ounces of gold required to buy the DOW. http://stockcharts.com/h-sc/ui?c=$indu:$gold,uu[m,a]daclynay[df][pb50!b200][i] Most goldbugs consider a value of...
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    Black Monday

    I agree with you but for none of the reasons you stated. The real reason that we'll NEVER break that hard in a single trading day again is that Reagan's administration changed the exchange rules. Program trading in the direction of the trend is now banned as soon as the price moves more than...
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    Please explain your understanding of IB stop order execution logic

    Just to make this more interesting, the newest version of TWS contains the following enhancement: "New Stop Trigger Methods You can now choose from several new stop trigger methods including: * Last - One Last Price value must be less than (for sells)/greater than (for buys), or...
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    IB market data

    The amount of historic data stored on the IB servers was recently increased from 6 months to 1 year. It is available in compressions from 1 second to 1 day.
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    Retrieve historical data from financial websites

    There are many samples in the files section of this group http://groups.yahoo.com/group/xltraders/
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    Level II Trading

    A wise trader once taught me that "Size attracts price"
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    Broker with an OCO orders and low spread.

    The order type you are looking for is called OCA (one cancels all) at IB http://www.interactivebrokers.com/en/trading/orderTypesMatrix.php?ib_entity=llc#oca
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    auto shut off -TWS

    Start here http://www.interactivebrokers.com/discus/messages/5501/5501.html?1146592539
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    eSignal RAISING FEE'S AGAIN!!?!?? WTF

    You can purchase a SDK from these guys http://www.traderssoft.com/ts/sdk/
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    Using the $TICK for confirmation

    I've found that the cash curiously moves before the futures just before a program is about to fire.
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    Comments on IB's Paper Trader?

    The fill simulator for limit orders for the paper trader account assumes you will always pay the spread. In theory this should be worst case and your results trading real money should be better.
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    Immigrants Aim To 'Close' US Cities on May 1st

    I believe you have the order reversed
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    IB Time and sales screen

    Its probably top of the list of things to do as soon as they start transmitting every tick.
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    IB Down

    Select a blank row in TWS. Press [Ctrl]+[Alt]+U. Popup will tell you the directory name for that account.
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    How come George Bush doesnt bomb Iran,they are farther ahead then Iraq in the WMD dep

    There has been an embargo against any trade with Iran since the hostage crisis. Any Iranian oil that arrives on US shores is illegal. (This is not to say that I think that the embargo is actually being strictly enforced.) I believe the aim of all the sabre rattling and idle threats is to keep...
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    Beware when trading eCBOT

    This is the problem with trying to trade with hard stops in a thin market.
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    CIA Leaker Fired, Prosecutions Next?

    This is just a preemptive attack on the defence that these two spies are planning on using http://www.globalsecurity.org/intell/library/reports/2005/franklin_indictment_04aug2005.htm
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    Iran Enriched Uranium, Now its the Isreali Response, will they or wont they?

    It wasn't that long ago that us enlightened christians were burning people at the stake -- for witchcraft.
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