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BookTrader is working fine. I'm using 891.5. Java 1.6. XP Pro. OldTrader

I run the standalone version. I got the 15". I love it. I thought the 17" might be bigger than I wanted to tote around. But one thing about the 17" (MacBook Pro) is that the battery life is longer. I would have liked to have had that. I've been a PC user all my life, this is my first...

As I mentioned before, I use the expanded view. In that view all 40 rows show. If I use the regular view, only about 25 rows show, with the rest taken up by things like tool bar, quote panel, etc. I currently trade with 4 monitors. BookTrader takes up roughly half of one monitor. That...

I'm using 891.5 for a week or two. No difficulties so far. XP Pro. Java 1.6. OldTrader

Hard to beat a MacBook Pro. Available in either 15" or 17". You said price is no object. I think this is the best laptop on the market. You can check it out at the Apple website. OldTrader

I have TWS loaded on a MacBook Pro. The laptop is my backup machine, and what I take on trips. I also have a PC setup with 4 monitors that is my primary trading machine when I'm home. I don't have any serious issues with either. OldTrader

I'm trading US futures, primarily ES. I'm not familiar with the setup in Asia. However, ES shows market depth 5 levels deep on the bid and 5 levels deep on the ask. 12 rows would only just cover the market depth...just shy of about 3 points. We can move 3 points in a matter of a minute or...

I'm using 891.5. FWIW, I am also using XP Pro, and Java 1.6. I've been using these same settings for a while now, I know I was using them for 888 for instance. Again, you want to center around the last price. And again, click on the display icon adjacent to the minimize button in the...

For BookTrader I use "center around last price", and "display 40 rows". I primarily trade futures, if that makes a difference. You can change your settings by selecting "configure" from BookTrader, then select "settings". On the title bar there's a icon that you can use to change the...

If I were you I would not trade with only the exchange initial margin in my account (the $6200 or whatever it is). What should be clear is that one losing trade, regardless of how much you lose, results in the inability to make another overnight trade. OldTrader

According to the annual report, IB currently has something like 95,000 customers. Evidently TWS wasn't so complicated that these folks couldn't trade with it eh? I'd say it's more a question of whether you're capable of reading the User's Manual, or watching some webinars, etc. Unless of...

Pretty obvious you have not read the Users Manual. Worse, it's clear you did not even look for it on their website. Here it is: http://www.interactivebrokers.com/en/p.php?f=tws&ib_entity=llc A piece of advice. Read the manual. If you don't, you'll be back here whining about how...

Neither one of your links works. OldTrader

You know, the message I got out of the House Republican vote was that this bill was essentially pork, not a serious attempt at recovery. Frankly, I'm surprised that Obama would support the bill. It clearly doesn't meet what he has suggested he wants to do. Infrastructure? Where is it? A...

Did you read his post? That's exactly what he said. By the way, I take him seriously. OldTrader

Help me out here. As I understand it, UPS units might work for a matter of very little time depending on how much of your system you're attempting to keep up. So I'm not getting where the value of this tactic is. I can get substantially more time out of a laptop operating on a battery. What...

So that you know, several years ago (I think it may have been 2003), Globex went down. It went down late one morning, and was down the rest of the day. Sometime that late that night they finally got Globex back up. Meanwhile, the pit kept trading. So did the NYSE and NASDAQ. So if you were...

I've used both cable and dsl...that solves the problem of when one of the services go out. I also have a PDA, which can connect wirelessly to IB...except that it's difficult and inconvenient to use. What I've settled on is a laptop, together with an aircard which can connect to the internet...

:) Help me out here. Which stock index "around the world" was up this year? Don't kid yourself. The US sneezes, the rest of the world catches cold. OldTrader

I got one of the new USB aircards from Sprint. Sierra Wireless USB 598. I was surprised at the speed of the network. Very stable. My plan is to use it as a backup, and for times when I travel. I am concerned about the 5G limitation. I don't have enough experience to know how much a...