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    IB raising margin every week?

    mmmm..ok...but i'm hardly a *new*..been with IB for almost decade..i'm just looking here for an logical explanation of their margin calculations. that's it. how they come up with those numbers?
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    IB raising margin every week?

    i open ticket after my first post in this rhread, but no answer..btw-it's not even assigned to anyone yet.
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    IB raising margin every week?

    ps-there is no stock positions on account, no shorts of any kind. so-the cash in cash cell is a cash and i did not understand why is the buying power is LOWER than cash???
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    IB raising margin every week?

    same account,no changes in holdings,few trades today. still waiting for a clear explanation of IB's margin calculations from ANYONE, IB included.I'm having trouble to understand what i see..
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    General Motors / Ford / Chrysler

    here are the cars,build on goverment owned factories. you can pick your favored- http://images.google.com/images?q=USSR%20cars&ie=UTF-8&oe=utf-8&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&client=firefox-a&um=1&sa=N&tab=wi i wish you can try them on road..
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    IB raising margin every week?

    i know, they can do whatever they want, but..with no securities been bought on margin and some cash still on account how to hell i was unable to buy anything on at least on that amount of cash? think about it- you have 50K, 5K out of it is in cash. even if you bought LEH stock on 45K and it's...
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    IB raising margin every week?

    man...it's doesn't really matter...what matter is that they ALL investment grade bonds with CURRENT rating ABOVE BBB what also matter is that for like 15 min my buying power is zero with nothing on margin and with some free cash on account.how is this possible? i was talking about it couple...
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    You ain't seen nothing yet!!!!

    looks like the picture is from first mad max movie,filmed in Australia..but who knows..holden(Australian GM)?
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    IB raising margin every week?

    i don't know wtf is wrong with IB..with 70K in bonds,5K cash i got zero buying power this morning before market open. i was unable to buy anything..how to hell i don't have buying power with cash on my account??? then-few minutes later-15K of buying power..every single fucking day there...
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    1 T External Hard Drive

    i told you-build your own. make sure it's well ventilated.. http://www.hddtemp.com/
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    1 T External Hard Drive

    HD's are pretty much all good, but you need a quiet one i guess. read some reviews on newegg. maybe hitachi(they are quiet). you can build your own, you know.. buy some external disclosure and put whatever you like in it. i;m still using philips 5960 with 500gb external hard drive and...
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    Source for Free historical intraday stock data?

    mmmm....is it so hard just to go on their front page and find all info you need? btw-they have live chat too. http://www.iqfeed.net/index.cfm?displayaction=data&section=services
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    Source for Free historical intraday stock data?

    you can http://www.iqfeed.net/index.cfm?displayaction=developer&section=main or via quotetraker API
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    gold red. whats the target if this blows over

    i didn't understand one thing-if everyone is selling the gold, then-where is it? where is f* coins? it is impossible to buy them in USA. or general public is betting on end of the world and buying it like there is no tomorrow just to be f*d one more time?
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    Forex & Equities Correlation Engine

    either tick(for last 7 days) or 1min for 1 year @ IQ Feed. agree about amount of data, but their feed is pretty fast. for average volume stocks it takes less than 20-30 min to download tick data for whole day for 1000 stocks. terrabyte hard drives are cheap.
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    Source for Free historical intraday stock data?

    you need something like this(as far as i remember-can save data in .cvs format)- http://www.mechtrading.com/partners.htm with IQ feed via Quotetracker ($25 a month,delayed) subscription. but! IQ only have 1 year of data
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    Need Some a scanner that will tell me where big size is on level 2

    tough one...do you realize amount of data you going to receive? i tried once to get L2 for 100 stocks via MB trading(when it WAS avaliable long time ago)..you have no idea,how fast and how many times per second orders are placed,canceled,resubmitted etc..you will need a supercomputer along with...
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    Forex & Equities Correlation Engine

    excel you can do whatever you want in it, using VBA(which is programming language and part of excel). http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Visual_Basic_for_Applications
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