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    What I Learned My First Year Trading

    There is no way one can know real-time whether small loss becomes a big loss or big gain.
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    What I Learned My First Year Trading

    All statements are meaningless because their meaning is limited by individual judgment.
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    What I Learned My First Year Trading

    Isn't one always in doubt? Otherwise he wouldn't be using stops.
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    SPY options versions

    The first expires on the 3rd friday of the month, the second on the last day of the month.
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    Is it legal for IB to do this? Considering pressing a charge...

    And I thought only police can kick you out.
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    IB TWS locks up every morning on the open

    I've sent the log file to their technical support so let's see what they have to say about that. So far no response.
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    IB TWS locks up every morning on the open

    Are you with IB customer service? Is it ok to send you the log file?
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    IB fills wrong?

    I never heard that the limit orders got filled off the target price. http://www.investopedia.com/terms/l/limitorder.asp Contact their trading desk.
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    IB TWS locks up every morning on the open

    Same is here. Sometimes it locks up for 3-4 min right at the opening. I think it gets better later. Maybe their server can't handle a high volume of trades in the morning.
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    Jim Rogers: S&P Could Go to 50,000 and DOW to 1 million

    I don't see that Dow outperforms euro based indexed in any way.
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    Federal Reserve Puzzled by Yield Curve

    Very good.
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    Federal Reserve Puzzled by Yield Curve

    That ended up in the inverted yield curve around 2007. So why is that a conundrum?
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    Using Margin for day trading

    Do you mean that one should never short stocks?
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    S&P 500 short term overbought & low VIX

    Wouldn't be easier to wait for the pullback and get on the long-term trend?
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    Amazed by lack of bullishness

    Maybe that explains why vix is up today albeit the market surge of over 2%.
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    Unofficial TWS bug thread

    Because it didn't change in TWS since the last friday.:p
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    Unofficial TWS bug thread

    Yes, the opening prices are screwed. Today's opening price for spy is shown as 10,000. The problem is on and off: it started like month back and then it was ok for a while and now they stopped sending the opening price again. And I was using the same version all the time.
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    Selling Calls To Take Advantage of SPY Drop to 82 By 18-Sep

    You do not actually short the market. You are market neutral.
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    Selling Calls To Take Advantage of SPY Drop to 82 By 18-Sep

    Regarding point #2 the further out of the money calls you will write the less will be your benefit from such a big move that you are predicting. Hope that qualifies for #3.
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    C++ API for Interactive Brokers??

    Does atrader require to have TWS running?
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