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    Why A Lot Of Traders Fail

    yes. you are 100% correct. and on top of all this-there a host of other different problems. this is why i shouldn't' blame market or TWS or whatever in other threads. i'm where i'm right now because of me. i know exactly what i suppose to do and what i'm good at,but i'm NOT doing it,hoping(bad...
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    Why A Lot Of Traders Fail

    grinding slowly day after a day is hard and boring..specially when people right next to you making fortunes of this bull market,(that goes up EVERY SINGLE f** day) by doing..well...nothing. my stuff is specially not motivating..market neutral,not scalable,limited risk, limited reward..but...
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    looking for an african ETF

    NGR :p
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    offer lower than the bid..

    ---IB will be able to answer you think?-- yes. make sure you are talking to the trading desk,not some regular CS. call them,not via chat or email. they got some knowledgeable people (at least at the trading desk,based on my experience) ----yeah - i tried trading at this ask price and it...
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    Unofficial TWS bug thread

    you right,it's not..i'm getting close to giving up on all this. the problem is-what you going to do then? what you going to put on your resume? :) you know this,you know that, you know little bit of everything, you are one man army..but the problem is-nobody need that. you will be either...
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    Unofficial TWS bug thread

    and another great news from your wonderful partner -oracle-you can't get the old java,unless you open an account with them. hey Larry f** Ellison! FU too
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    Unofficial TWS bug thread

    IB got me good today. i was foolish enough to upgrade f** java yesterday to 1.70.45..boy oh boy.. at 9:30 my TWS freezes completely. a bit later i got fill via API,i was trying to enter the ticker into TWS-nope. no can do. i can't type. i didn't change a thing,just updated java and now i got...
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    it's not a shudown,it's a VACATION

    #1: 1. What's a 'non-essential' employee? https://twitter.com/GSElevator
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    Microcap Traders Punk'd With 100% Interactive Brokers Margin Hike

    well.. you have to understand one thing(besides Stock's,mentioned above)-they are private company and can do whatever they want. they done this many times in the past on various securities. they done this on 2007-09 on corp bonds. ALL OF THEM. AAA,GE-most liquid-whatever. overnight,without...
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    IB market data stall --- TWS or Java or Windows 8?

    same today. 2 accounts side to side on one PC. on one-stuck quotes on 2 tickers(out of 10 or so),another one-fine. SSDD
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    Microcap Traders Punk'd With 100% Interactive Brokers Margin Hike

    there is < 5K tickers on NYSE and NASDAQ combined. more than half of them are illiquid trash. so.. i wouldn't pay much of attention to 'exploded' 10K names\tickers list.
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    The Reality of America's Finances

    tell me something i don't know.
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    Pump and dump indicators

    xtxi. what you going to do here? long? short? where is your stop?OSN? XTEX? ASTC? just to name a few from today's biggest gainers list(charts on them looks same is your last ticker ) .
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    Pump and dump indicators

    ummm...what was the distinctive pattern again? spike up on single day? the chart you posted is after the fact.,when price already went down
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    how can I make profit from trading programming?

    Anybody can do that.not to mention that all this stuff is freely available for everyone.
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    Open prices for SP500 stocks

    http://www.gummy-stuff.org/Yahoo-data.htm yahoo does offer real time and based on my experience it s very accurate. Getting open fron nyse will be problematic regardless
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    Nothing can stop this bull market?

    Jobs Report: Expect 200,000 Print As Unemployment Falls To 7.2% On Tuesday http://www.forbes.com/sites/afontevecchia/2013/10/18/jobs-report-expect-200000-print-as-unemployment-falls-to-7-2-on-tuesday/ ----Barclays estimates the economy added 200,000 jobs in September, with the unemployment...
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    Trading for a living....full time....only income

    i don't know the exact stats,but looks like there very few members left,who actually trade. judging by activity of the entire board. it's dead. my profits are lower and lower every day. due many factors. i'm working on couple new ideas,but it's kind of hard. over the years i've became a bit...
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    IB market data stall --- TWS or Java or Windows 8?

    http://www.elitetrader.com/vb/showthread.php?s=&postid=3839943&highlight=frozen+quotes#post3839943ttp://www.elitetrader.com/vb/showthread.php?s=&postid=3839943&highlight=frozen+quotes#post3839943 phheww...
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    VBA for backtesting

    OP probably planning to use excel 'build in' math,stats and finance functions? http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/excel-help/financial-functions-reference-HP010342519.aspx
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