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so, you clear thru a firm that has no clearing- got it. and you landed the $5mm with you killer 30 minute phone presentation to manage a trading strategy 'clearing' thru a firm that doesn't clear, doesn't actually manage money, isn't cleared for performance based and who is above your own...

first, if this is the firm you work for, they'll be none too pleased that you're posting this. second, which one are you- seem a bit young to be one of those listed. i thought you had your own firm. if you are some newb underling there, there is no fucking way that they are letting you run REAL...

wow, you are one serious idiot. what, you think nobody on ET is a RIA? if you even knew what a series 65 was, an RIA is, or what performance based compensation is, you wouldn't even be posting this nonsense here. ya see, there's this whole accredited investor thing, and this whole advertising...

he went with the old, 'compliment your rival, ignore the quote about how outlandishly shitty are commissions are' approach. shocking. we traders actually are concerned with the total cost per the round trip, not the 'quote them the commissions and pretend like they include exchange fees...

i don't have solution for you, only a comment: definitely find a place to hang it. i was in teh same situation many years ago and had a hard time finding a place (never thought of a prop firm, unfortunately. that, and mine was more complicated as i was an RIA managing client $ 2/20. anyway, i...

and i'm quite sure you'd speak to me like that in person. internet bravery= IRL pussy. speaking of which, keep an eye out for a new thread that will give you a chance to show how great you are and humiliate me in the process. of course, i'm 99.999% sure that you won't be man enough to answer...

predictable as ever. post an attack that has nothing to do with the subject matter. in contrast, i addressed the idiocy of your post by quoting what was wrong with it and addressing it. reread my post and you'll see (if you can comprehend even a little bit) that i addressed both the pros and...

yeah, they'll 'most likely bring charges.... jail'. jesus you're an idiot. having spent 20 years in the industry, holding a 24, 65 and many others, i can say with much confidence that you're talking out your ass. he's not talking inside info, he's talking opening a stupid acct. per all...

agree except you're giving a bit too much weight to the serious consequences. i'd say for the majority, the event never actually changes the behaviour. if you know many people like this, what was a very serious consequence 5 years ago is now a laugh. they just keep raising the bar. how many...

lol

i can help you out: file it under gullible imbecile. btw, i am comrade Obama's biggest critic. even he wouldn't sell stealth technology for a lousy 50b. Pelosi spends that much on drapes (union made, of course).

you're kidding, right? amazing how when we have random dreams, it's a dream. when people have near death and their brain goes into a hyper state (google it), it's a trip to heaven with visits from loved ones 'on the other side'. granted, i envy you people. if i believed in such fantasy, life...

yeah, and all this for the low low price of increasing your commissions expenses by more than 40% over what you're paying at IB (and,as many here know, i HATE IB). and this was the 'special' rate that had to be approved by upper mgmt due to my high volume: $5 per round turn in the ES. don't...

hey Kiwi: did you have any order delays with IB when the market got real fast this afternoon? no disconnects like last night, but i had orders that were 'acknowledged by server' take 5 seconds after that to execute even though T&S shows them in the money the whole time. look a loss, got it back...

a thing of beauty. nice to see a real trader at work; as i have no such vantage point watching my own poor trading exhibition, AKA: Go4's bullet train to zero.

thanks Kiwi. as always, i appreciate your help and input...

ditto this question. btw, i'd ask ib but, frankly, i trust Kiwi's answer over the one i'd get from IB!

well, that is news to me. thanks for the info. odd that in all my calls to IB, nobody has ever told me that. in fact, we've spoken about this particular problem many times. thanks again. i will ask them whether a clue to whether it is, in fact, on my end, can be gleaned from the log (which...

thanks for the data point kiwi- hope your trading is going better than mine.... can't be my internet- kinda hard to parse out only asian data and have EX, EUREX, forex all up and fine. nope it's an IB issue. last time they were doing system maint. on servers during trading hours- amazing...

anyone else have issues tonight with TWS going down starting right about 3am EDT? i'm on the HK server farm. and here i was having an ok night for a change- up 1750 and BOOM, negative in a heartbeat. i'm confident IB's issue was related to the fast market; as it happened as things started to...