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    Trading Forex Leverage with Interactive Brokers

    This is What I got from IB Customer service: "US residents are restricted to trade Leverage forex" " There would be a Leveraged Forex balance if your account held a net short absolute value amount in terms of your account's base currency. In order for a "Forex" transaction to be considered...
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    Trading Forex Leverage with Interactive Brokers

    Hello, I am new to forex trading, I have a silly question. I opened account with Interactive Brokers, and account balance is $50K, today I tried to buy 100K of EURUSD, I thought this is just 2 times leverage, but my order rejected, seems like over leveraged. My max order is 50K, it that...
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    Buy Used Workstation For Trading?

    Scataphagos, thank you for commendation for Dell workstation, I bought T3500 with W3690 six years ago, almost every day it is on from 6am to 10pm without any problem, only replaced SSD and added some memory sticks. Recently, when I compare T3620 with T5810, with similar CUP and Graphics card...
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    jasinhbca's quest for discipline, knowledge & profits

    @Handle123, where is your initial stop? Thanks.
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    Advice on Trading software

    Agree with Xspurt, SC is a better choice, platform is cheaper, and with 5 second rechecked data for accurate bar, and you don't need to pay additional data feed. Also SC is much easier to trade with, but be alert, at the beginning, you will feel overwhelmed, because SC has a lot of customized...
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    Interactive Brokers TWS Bug Thread

    IB - I noticed IB intraday chart produced many incorrect bars yesterday, and today it is still not correct, could you check the attached comparison and let me know when you will fix this? Thanks
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    Anyone using a Dell U3011 Monitor?

    They are idiots, my first T3500 can't even run my U3011 to max, so they have to replace the card, so any duel link DVI or Displayport should run it well.
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    Interest Rate and Hedge

    Thank you sle. I think the hedging cost is high too, and I hope interest rate won't increase that much in 6 month.
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    Interest Rate and Hedge

    Thank you Frank, I know nothing about interest instrument, could you elaborate? What is tlt? Is it ishares Barclays 20+ YR TRES BOND FD? If so, how many put contract can hedge $250,000?
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    Interest Rate and Hedge

    Thank you qqqoptions.
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    Interest Rate and Hedge

    I am going to use cash to buy a Short Sale home as an investment property, because it is a good deal and lender only take cash offer. I talked to my loan officer and was told I can cash out after 6 months of purchasing the property, but I am afraid of the interest rate may be higher than the...
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    CL Redux

    Try to know about CL, and have a very stupid question: CL May will expire tomorrow, do you still trade CL May today or you already started to trade CL June many days ago? What the date you start to trade the coming CL since CL expire every month? Thank you so much for help on this.
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    Swing Trading is the Holy Grail

    Just curious what pattern leads you to buy the stocks in down trend?
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    shorting triple leverage ETF pairs for deterioration

    I am confused with ETF cost and re balancing, could anyone help to clarify the following? 1. Suppose you bought FAS at beginning of the year at $66, and yesterday's close is $104, then your profit is $104-$66=$38, after re balancing, do you still have $38 profit in your account or not? Or you...
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    Multicarts forces users to join facebook?

    Multicharts has a wrong marketing strategy. They try to give free software for discretionary traders and hope they will auto trade someday, then they buy their software, but in reality, discretionary traders do not want to do auto trade, or take a long long time for them to do auto trade. So...
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    NoDoji's Trading Plan Development

    I think this thread is going too far, and some posts are against NoDoji's original purpose. Without the host of this thread, at some point we need to end the thread. Read most of the posts in this thread, I feel some points as following: 1. ND's system works, at the same time, any system...
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    NoDoji's Trading Plan Development

    NoDoji, thank you so much for your PMs and your posts, and I learned a lot from you. Everyday, I log in ET to expect your post; without you being on ET, I won't come to ET often. Best wishes to you!
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    Intel SSD 320, 80GB, $70... <$1/GB, AR. Offer expires tomorrow

    Thank you so much Bolimomo for your detail explanation.
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    Intel SSD 320, 80GB, $70... <$1/GB, AR. Offer expires tomorrow

    Thank you Bolimomo. In order to save some room on SSD (the "D" drive), I leave many programs on the original drive "C", do these programs still work without installing on "D"?
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    Intel SSD 320, 80GB, $70... <$1/GB, AR. Offer expires tomorrow

    I have a lot of programs, this one seems small. Can I load Windows 7 and trading platforms to this SSD, and keep the original hard drive with Windows 7 and majority of the programs? Just boot from different drive. Any suggestion? Thank you Scataphagos.
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