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    .Net Charting Control

    Roll your own one with GDI+:-) It's not that hard. Or if you want to reflect it from here http://competo.com/charting
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    Can an OTM option ever be profitable if it never goes ITM?

    Just take a look at GOOG option series.
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    My next motherboard

    You can try cluster index (the rows will be physically stored in sequential order if the indexed columns are in sequential order such as 1, 2, 3, 4, ... ) on the symbol id and timestamp using a high fill factor such as 90% to optimize query performance while adding some hit on inserts...
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    spam is profitable.

    There ought to be a law punishing a company that uses spammers for its advertisement as well. Although it's hard to enforce for offshore companies, many stuffs from those spamms are in some ways linked to US based operations.
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    The open source thread

    You can find some source codes here http://competo.com/2005/docs.html. It's not open source, but you can view some source codes anyway.
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    Alternatives to Wealthlab and Tradestation

    I'm working on one, but it takes a lot of work. It is taking different path. Instead of providing a pseudo language as system development tool, the system will be working through a plugin architecture that can be extended by anything written in .NET compatible languages. The downside is that it...
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    IB trader workstation auto login...

    Do you mean encrytion or ofuscation? Encryption needs the key to decrypt the encrypted password. It's not good idea to leave your key on your computer if you're concerned with the hacking your PC. You would be better off by just hiding your password in your program using a little trick like...
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    IB trader workstation auto login...

    Is your ATS running in remote site? If so encryption does help, but remember it has to be decrypted by your program. So it's not 100% safe if running on a remote site. If it's on your computer, there's no need to do so as TWS sends your password using SSL if you choose to.
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    TWS under RH-64 Linux

    Yes, I have run it under Fedora Core 3. As it's in Java, the jar file should be the same. You might want to install gtk devel package to see if it goes away.
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    Internet Information Services IIs - spyware?

    You can remove IIS from Control Panel/Windows Components if you don't need it. IIS does have many security issues if you run it on a publicly connected computer.
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    Database Issue

    For all time series data, you might use one table and each row stores a symbol that serializes the whole time series. This is mainly for real-time read-only purpose. If the interval is intraday, you might want to store serialized time series, say 5 min, and you can roll up to higher timeframe...
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    Discipline...

    I think Harry's English writing style has changed to meet the taste of his wide readership:p.
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    Can or how to download quotes from yahoo finance free?

    Use your Excel and Web Query plus some VBA programming.
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    YM and IB ??????

    That's why I stopped trading YM on IB after they posted a transaction to my account after the market close and then sent me an email many weeks later that they would not do anything about it since I offset the trade on breakeven! I was down about 50 points/contract when I noticed the unexpected...
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    I need a multi-function laser printer

    I just got mine from buy.com for $375.99 plus shipping. The only drawback of the MFC 9700 is that my light bulb will dim if it's printing. It draws too much power! The spec says it needs 970 W when in operation mode. Standby 75W and Sleep 15W.
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    Comm DLL for VB.NET in Tradestation?

    I guess that if TradeStation supports COM interface, as long as your VB.Net exposes the standard COM interface expected by TradeStation, it won't know the difference.
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    How's SSF going?

    It's still long way to go for SSF. I swing traded SUNW, the spread was about 5 cents most of time. Fill is fast if you just hit the bid/ask.
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    Covered Calls/SSF

    If it's in security account, a long SSF may be used for covered call option, but if it's in commodity account, then it won't. At least this is how IB handles it.
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    IB API questions...

    Will BOX still require that confirmation by a human?
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