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Oh please, do tell more.

No. So you are saying the current rise in commodity prices is due to some one-time catastrophic act of nature? Wouldn't inflation be a simpler and more logical explanation? Occam's razor.

The definition of inflation that I am familiar with is something like: So how can a basket of soaring commodities not be considered inflation? Do we not buy commodities? Aren't they "goods"?

So if wages are stagnant and commodity prices are soaring, that isn't inflation?

Reuse Rejected Orders just means they will reappear if rejected, but in an untransmitted state.

You've said this multiple times now. What is a good measure of inflation if not commodity prices? Seems to me that commodity prices are the purest form of an inflation gauge that we have.

Wow, this post is really a surprise coming from you. Keep up the good work.

Good luck zzzap. Hopefully you get your money back. From your story and your log, I can definitely see the possibility of some weird bug on IB's end. Keep pestering people up the food chain til something happens. Dropping lines such as "will contact the SEC" in correspondence is a good way...

Oh, I'm sure you did. [B] IB is the most professional broker I've dealt with. It seems like a high percentage of your posts are IB attacks. Perhaps you have an alternate agenda.

Man, that's a shocker.

Idiot alert.

Sorry, I don't know how to help you. However, your ping times are making me jealous. If I could complain about 24ms ping times I would be happier than I currently am.

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Probably. The thing is, it seems like your results will be extremely volatile. Unless you have inside info, holding through earnings just seems to be a recipe for disaster at some point. How do you get comfortable with this risk?

You guys all have it wrong. Bernanke is waiting for Cramer to go on another "they know nothing" rampage. Only then will Ben realize he needs to cut rates by 50+ bps. Cramer, we need you!

Make that walk.

When I started trading, I could only put in market orders and the spreads were $5 on every stock. My commissions were $1,000 a side (not to mention the SEC fees) plus I had to drive 10 miles through the snow to give my order to my broker.

It seems like a monitoring program that monitors for stale quotes from a single exchange may be in order. For example, if more than 10% of the bids/asks at BATS are causing locked quotes, is probably okay to just shut that route off and automatically tell an IB employee to look at the problem...

Well, if I am not mistaken you can probably just use Excel: http://www.interactivebrokers.com/download/ExcelApiBeginners.pdf I have not used the Excel interface, so I can't help you there. However, if you are comfortable with it, maybe you can make it do what you want?

I would start out with the simplest to understand language that allows you to do things quickly and intuitively. In my opinion that would be a language like Visual Basic, Python, or Ruby. If you are familiar with Excel already, I would go with it.