Traders' Roundtable

There were times IB went to bat for me in a strong way. Other times I was told we had the share the hits sometimes, in exchange. Regardless if I liked the outcome, It was not unfair. Stabile and deep... ??? I had Open E-cry for a test. Had rude and patronizing CS. Others here say they are wonderful....

What needs do you have not currently satisfied? What do you want your broker to do for you? Is it important if the broker is a primary clearing member or merely a introducing broker? Are you seeking a wider instrument universe?. Do you plan to trade LME forward contracts? South African markets? What...

I experienced, um, an issue with CSI software, build UA 2.10.7.112 . Large numbers of individual month contracts just disappeared -- poof! -- and the rollovers went crazy. I had a similar issue after refreshing my database over the holidays. Missing days, orders gone crazy etc. I didn't know about ...

Wow, very impressive what is possible. Ill tip toe in and see how it goes. I send orders to IB via their excel API. Over 100 per night. This would require running IB tws on the remote server. Have to try and see I suppose. The idea of using an iPAD to remote in while away from the office is very coo...

Thanks Stephen, Your posts definitely did provide 'Food for Thought". I'm in the works on a program which reconciles expected and broker positions, like you run. I have my order entry automated, and am picking up the back side now... I'm curious if those who run on a remote server. Use that cop...

Some Pros: Stability and fast recovery from hardware malfunction. Fast reliable internet connectivity Ability to connect from any computer anywhere, more or less. No need to travel with a laptop which may contain secure information. PDA access with a remote desktop app (in a pinch) Some possible con...

Pondering the benefits / drawbacks with using a remotely located server at a provider such as godaddy. I see godaddy offers private, and shared fractional access to servers. I wonder if you are using a remote server hosted at godaddy or another server farm type location... If you would be kind enoug...

Double up, to belly up...? There are much tighter bets if martingale is your thing. Wasn't Mr. Vince expounding a method where you don't loose. Is doubling up a looser better that taking a managed trend bet to begin with? Or would you continue adding size if the trend matured? Would there be profit ...

perhaps split them into two separate systems (if not already).

There does seem to be an overriding sense of chaos the past week or so. Perhaps pre election constipation. In any case, as time goes on and Ive lived through a few ups and downs, I do get a sense every so often, that I should take bets off the table. Ultimately I haven't, and go through the give bac...

I remember something lk this a few days ago, but it went away/\/\/\/

... very engaging thinker and his experiments yield interesting results. In a similar vein, I found this short TED talk on the "Paradox of Choice" very apropos too... Interesting speech until he states that income redistribution will be helpful for the rich not just the poor because it wi...

http://ibcollector.com/

I havent used this and cant say if it works as advertised. But, very interesting....

last week I think.. Had an unusul symbol show up in my portfolio from somewhere. Deleted it and restarted. All was fine then. Not sure if its a similar issue. Help staff was friendly and helpful although I noticed the weird symbol and already deleted it while on hold...

Slipstream wrote:
When pressed I call upon my Trading "Guru" Epictetus, one of the greatest finds of my adult life: simple, clear, and reliable as a moral and personal guide to all sorts of things, including trading.

Ayn Rand, was my "epictetus".

7:50 all data released ahead of schedule... hopefully a trend reversal...

Commodity Manipulation May Be Easier to Prove After Overhaul Share Business ExchangeTwitterFacebook| Email | Print | A A A By Asjylyn Loder July 19 (Bloomberg) -- Traders will face new rules aimed at making it easier for regulators to prove manipulation in markets for commodities such as oil, wheat ...

10:26 data released

LeapFrog wrote:

LeviF wrote:9:30ish eastern, download started.

Look at that - faster than a New York Minute!

Not however the complete release. but, fewer to have to manually update. Hopefully all will be in soon.

I am (shame on me) surprised that a hot swap backup server is not in place...

Via phone at 9:29 est pm

" perhaps at least another hour because we have no backup servers to switch to... Our server crashed today and we are reloading the data "