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Where did you go? Is it a secret? Can you give us an example of "ineptitude" or "arrogance"? OldTrader

Really this involves two separate questions: 1) What intraday margin does IB need to protect itself 2) What intraday margin does the customer need to protect himself. Let's start with #2 first. If you have an account of let's say $12K, and you're trading 2 CL contracts at $6K each...

You don't give your source for this info. But it's like I said in your other thread....you can't estimate until you have some type of clue what the total default is going to be. No one knows this right now. We aren't even close. To understand why, defaulting on a loan goes through a...

Does anyone really know? I doubt it. No one is going to know how big the losses are until all that are going to default have, the houses have come back and then been resold. I don't think that process is very far along yet. You've got to get far enough into it that you can see the end to get...

That may have been a result of using a volume chart because there was very light, thin volume on some very outsized moves. OldTrader

I'm not familiar with all of your options in your poll. But, I can tell you that the IB MobilTrader is not a PDA. Don't know about the others. IB MobilTrader can be access via all smartphones provided they have access to the internet. Verizon offers the Blackberry World Edition (I think...

Yeah, I tried to call. They were closed. OldTrader

Funny how some guys can't get their facts straight. I generally comment about the IB problems that have nothing or little to do with IB. Like for instance guys who's stops don't trigger because they don't check the box allowing triggering outside of regular hours, and who then come on ET...

empee: You're proving to be as big a dumbass now was you were back then. LOL. After some searching, I found the thread in question back in April of 2005. You have misrepresented my posts back then. In fact, recently you claimed I told you to go "fuck yourself" in that thread. Nope, not...

I'm no Cramer defender...but posting something like this is quite unfair. The problem is that yes, he picked them at what turned out to be the high. The question is what did he do next. We've all done it. I can usually look back and find where I've bought the market at the high, and sold...

For what it's worth, I installed the newest TWS version, Build 878.5, and it corrected a problem like yours. That said, I've had some problems with IB in the last few days that are disturbing, to include being dropped today in the middle of the Fed announcement, and not being able to sign back...

I was disconnected right after the Fed announcement. After a LONG log in process, I received no quotes, headings, etc. Left for a while, just now logging back in worked well enough, but no quotes....and the heading where you access account, trades, etc is gone. Any work out for this? Better...

Just a quick comment regarding your post. As far as intraday type of trading is concerned, if a trader is buying on strength, and therefore, selling on weakness (I think that's what you're saying) and therefore not mixing the entry and exit methods, it seems to me that this is inherently a...

You might try substituting a few FACTS for all those opinions. And try a pill for some of that inner anger you're spewing around here. OldTrader

This method of a "double book system", two contracts, an agreement that "never sees the light of day" is called loan fraud, defrauding of a lender. The FBI has made many arrests, and obtained many convictions all over the country on just these types of arrangements. I rather doubt that you're...

Evidently you not only are incapable of reading my post, you are incapable of reading your own post. LOL! I thought your problems were youth and inexperience. Now I find out you're just plain stupid. Now it all makes sense. LOL! OldTrader

I think you should describe what took place. Zzzap took it public without your permission didn't he? At this point, he has quite a number of people worried that the same thing may happen to them. I think an explanation would be beneficial. OldTrader

Evidently you didn't read my post. I didn't suggest it didn't happen. In fact, if you read the post I said exactly the opposite. But then most of the guys your age don't have simple skills like reading. What I said, to repeat, is that TWS didn't go down that day. And gave you a method to...

I primarily trade futures, but I do trade stocks periodically. At one time I got a message of the type you're talking about. Later they sent me a message as I recall giving me a quote on how many shares I could borrow to short, and what it would cost me. (There was some type of nominal charge...