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Anyone know why I can't place one on a NAsdaq NMS stock today (for tomorrow)? It's after 6 p.m. eastern time. I keep getting invalid trade on IB. Chat help was useless, as usual. I'll likely get a response from my e-ticket in a couple days, but that won't help with the MOO order for Friday...

Didn't see a subscriber link on that post.

So, there really isn't an S&P oscillator? It's not mentioned on the S&P products site.

I keep hearing about this, but how do I subscribe or find it? (How much, too?) It's not ont he S&P site.

Why is this a superior trade to selling a naked call. If, for example, you write two OTM and buy one ATM, you are still naked one OTM. How much of a hedge is that single long and capped call? Is it worth giving up the extra premium of a second naked call? Or just doing one naked? The risk reward...

So trades made in a joint account can be classified for tax purposes as being made by one spouse as part of their business? Seems generous.

If I have a joint account with my wife, must we both claim trader status to have the P/L from that account treated as a trading business? And if so, is incorporation away around this, or would her employment continue to be a barrier?

Got it; thanks. I've seem the formula elsewhere, and without the digressions. I am wondering now about back-testing for non-pattern strategies. For instance, how could one back test every stock split on NYSE, day of announcement and average gain until ex-date and EOD on ex-date. Any cheap...

Couldn't get that link to work.

Thanks. Interesting. And here is my really really naive questions (apologies): Backtesting is a requirement for determining the % of winning trades to losing, et-cetera, right? So, for discretionary trading developing expectancy isn't really possible is it?

What does this surprise anyone? Any trader or HNW person over 50 who marries a Euro hottie < 30 is an idiot. Swing club date -- sure. Arm candy at corporate functions -- sure. But marriage? How dumb and insecure can you be?

This relates to my following post, the Russian and Emerging Europe gals have something going for them that the OP female in Manhattan looking for a million dollar a year man does not have -- skills, technique and a lack of hang ups. I could be more specific but it is not that kind of board...

Been reading Thorp, Turtles, et-cetera, and I have a question about positioning-sizing formulas and the use of expectancy. How do you determine the win-loss percentage of your system or a particular trade? Back-testing? Guessing? If back-testing, how far back? Best software to backtest, say...

I recall from my youth how it was not looks but looks and class and charm but all three of those things plus sexual performance/skills that closed many a deal. Just showing up doesn't count. There are lots of things out there that only 5-10 percent of women will do, and when combined with...

I agree. Ever since they went public the bugs and bad tech support have gone from bad to worse. I used to recommend them to new traders all the time, but I don't think I can honestly do that now.

One year? I still struggled with Spanish after three. Friends tell me German is a hard language to be proficient in, although tourist German is not that hard. (I think my wife would object to a second marriage, btw.) No in Sydney -- the most overrated city in my book, if you are an American...

Wish I did speak German, but alas, no. I am outside the US much of the year, however. Australia, unfortunately.

No I mean parts are literally missing, and yes I know how to open and customize the statements. This is a new glitch. Some other IB traders are complaining on another thread.

Anyone here migrated off IB to another broker? If so, who? Anyone do futures, Forex, stocks, options well?

My monthly statement is a mess. Trades can't be viewed, columns cut off. May be a Leopard issue, I suspect. Never had this particular problem before.