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I was planning on walking into my local gold dealer and buying another 1 oz gold coin.

I think OP was referring to using BTC as a currency i.e. a medium of exchange for goods and services rather than a commodity for trading. In that capacity I'd say he's probably right until the exchange rate stabilizes more.

Well that's always true. I don't think btc-e is particularly prone to this. In fact, even regulated, US-based futures brokers are prone to failure as I recall.

For a second there I thought that was frank-z.

Fixed that for you. :D

Dollars are not "real" (whatever that means) and the Fed or any other central bank is not God and cannot impart "reality" on something. The perceived "value" of dollars or euros is wholly dependent on the psychological confidence of the currency's users. Look at the example of the old...

Bitcoin's smallest denomination is 1 Satoshi = 0.00000001 BTC = 10^-8

If you look at the USD/BTC quotes on bitcoinaverage.com, localbitcoins really stands out as charging the highest premium. That tells me that face-to-face transactions are surging as more people want to get involved and buy BTC. On a side not I found the slashdot article interesting: US...

I'm not sure why you'd need to encrypt your signals. Why not just use the usual username/password authentication to gain access to a members-only web page?

I hope you were paying attention in probability and statistics class because you'll need it.

Have you contacted IB customer service Mister 1-post?

Bull. A friend was trading on TOS the same option positions as mine. Our fill performance was the same with limit orders between the bid/ask.

You should never use market orders in option trades; only limit orders should be used.

If you call reqContractDetailsEx and don't specify the strike price or expiry date you get back the whole chain.

If you trade enough, IB is much cheaper than TOS for options.

They are 2 completely different platforms and they get their data feeds through totally different mechanisms. It sounds like IB's data feed IP port is being blocked. If that's true then you have several options: 1) Tell China to please unblock that port (LOL) 2) Find a a proxy/VPN provider...

I actually like the Bitcoin movement but I've never purchased BTC before and I never would. All my BTC was mined back in the good old days when the block reward was 50 BTC, the difficulty was around 1M and you could mine with a graphics card. I'm a nerd and the whole Bitcoin mining thing was...

People late to any game usually feel the same way.

6 kg is 211 ounces not 21 That's around $250K

And of course if you're on a Linux box MySQL comes pre-installed on Ubuntu and OP's app will run there with no changes.