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Why not just trade eur.cad then?

Correct. Same with ICE. If you use a market stop with IB its held on IB's servers.

Huh? I'm saying the economy doesn't have as much momentum as they're trying to imply and that we've been in a protracted weak recovery for almost 15 years. Deep issues underneath the surface though.

Good ole tech companies. Bleeding VC dry since '99.

I'd hardly describe the economy as having a "lot of momentum." We're on like year 15 of the post-2000 "recovery."

Sold 2 Aug 15 near ATM straddles on FB (96 strike).. not huge, but manageable.

The problem with the original article is that I've seen Goldman's name mentioned atleast 4-5 times. That immediately makes me suspicious. That being said, I wouldn't be surprised if they do indeed raise it some ridiculous token amount - due to a multitude of reasons. Incompetent and corrupt.

Apparently they need 4100 employees to keep twitter running - a large amount of which are probably working and living in SF directly. I'd probably start there.

I took bad slippage *due* to using stop market orders which are hosted on IB's servers. I haven't taken bad slippage due to stop limits. This is why I use stop limits with a broad range (approaching the protection band) now - as IB is simply sending the same thing with a simulated stop order...

To be fair this is a rather obscure situation but they should take note of it so that people stop falling into this trap as its not commonly expected. There was another recent thread on this where another guy got trapped and had to call IB...

Surely you can see what's eventually on the horizon, right?

Go to TWS configuration. Type in "overfill" in the top left search input. Go to every single futures related order preset and validate that overfill protection is not enabled and partial fills are set to "reduced in size". e.g., presets for: Futures, Futures->Bracket. The general "Presets" is...

Great, so I guess the fed magic word this time around will change from "patience" to "China."

Market looks weak to me - I wouldn't be buying, particularly when China part II starts up in an hour or so. But we shall see.

Limit orders are on the exchange. That goes for straight limits or stop limits. They're obviously held by IB until the parent order is filled but after that CME or ICE holds them.

Yes, because "the poor" never have to think about that kind of stuff, right?

Stops involved with exchanges like CME and ICE are blue because they don't have a native stop. Other futures exchanges (like SGX) may support native and they're green there. Equity exchanges should be green. His issue however is with limit orders and those should be green in all cases. The only...

What's your opinion on why they continually reduce in volume and peter out? Do you think it's because most people are content using the options for speculative trades rather than the futures? Maybe the issue with the oil and gold vol indexes is that commodities in general just haven't been...

Alright, well this should not be happening.. I have a feeling though there's some kind of configuration that might be contributing to it though. Have you extensively configured your order presets or anything like that? Rather than general presets, what do your futures and futures->bracket...

I just cut some rates... suggest exiting the building.