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Did I miss something? I thought IB was requiring everyone to use the SD and provide a challenge code this AM. I logged into both accounts as usual. I see no other discussion of it here?

The study was based on incomplete data and therefore drew conclusions that were false. The NBA does their own study on the matter and are confident that no statistically significant bias exists. These clowns only had box score data which lists the officiating crew. In a mixed race crew...

Basically what you should do is buy the Dow. Morning, midday, afternoon... it really doesn't matter because the damn thing only goes in one direction these days.

Exactly. Just like ET, a very high percentage of BS with the occassional interesting or worthwhile tidbit thrown in.

I have a 360 Modena. I would echo what some of the other owners have said with a few additions. Insurance is not expensive. I'm late 30s with a decent driving record and my insurance is $1200 a year on the car. You have to keep in mind why you are buying the car. This obviously cannot...

As of a few months ago, IB did not support give ups. They claimed to, but the in the end they "give up" the entire lot to the next firm to do the allocation. I wish they did, because Man is damn slow these days.

I wonder if Taleb's new Black Swan book has anything substantively new?

I started with 30K. Just get set up and do it. Get your CTA and start with one account...your own. List in all the usual places and see who comes knocking. You do need very good performance, but not triple digits. Institutions are scared by that kind of performance since you need to take so...

It's back to normal now. I am running 864 from Nov 2006.

Anyone holding EOM ES futs options at IB may have gotten a surprise just now. Suddenly every set of positions I have got multiplied by 10, but only those valued at zero. It happened in both accounts. I called and IB is aware of the issue and working on it. They said some were multiplied by 5...

The 2006 performance award was for the 2005 calendar year, so we still don't have any more information on how Matador (Vic) did in 2006 aside from his reference to being positive for the year. Manchester is a related firm that has a very similar strategy and was tracking Matador pretty closely...

Hounddog/Jim, I don't know what deleting temp files had to do with anything either - maybe nothing. As you mention, maybe in the 10 minutes we were messing around, either they fixed the problem or the problem fixed itself. Running the standalone TWS seems as far away from temp internet...

I had the same issue yesterday. I have two accounts. One was fine and the other started running pink, so I tried restarting it. The connection was fine, but the second acct would not reopen at all. After waiting on chat for 15 mins, I called and got tech support. The guy said several others...

I think something is amiss now. I'm running 2 TWS accounts. One has frozen ES quotes and the other was running pink for about 15 minutes. I restarted the pink acct and now cannot log in at all - for the last 10 minutes.

My missing cash just arrived. Thanks for clearing this up quickly.

Thanks Steve.

update: After much closer inspection, it appears that none of the internal futures transactions occurred as they should have. I had both spreads and outright options positions that were shown as exercised, however the underlying futures transactions never transpired to move the cash. I...

I was holding a decent amount of futures option spreads in ES that were deep in the money as of Friday. Knowing they convert to cash, I left them alone. My IB statement just arrived and my account value is down a huge amount according to the statement. After further inspection, it appears...

Your structure is effectively dictated to you by the products you trade. If you are trading securities, you will come under state/federal securities regs and need to register accordingly. A HF structure is geared more toward securities while CTA/CPO is more for commodities.

I don't know about all 50, but it's typically true. You only live in one state, right? You follow the rules for your state of residence then typically file blue sky for states where you are soliciting or have clients. The key thing to remember is that investment advisor statutes are...