Recent Content by John Bowles

  1. IB's TWS bulletin.

    Interactive Brokers seems to be a little slow at ticket response this week. I use to get a TWS bulletin notice in red but it stopped even though I...
    Thread by: John Bowles, Oct 27, 2008, 0 replies, in forum: Interactive Brokers

  2. need help - tension

    Big one. What the hay! Lots of great advice being given here. There is are underlying components to most of it (underlying patterns or...
    Post by: John Bowles, Oct 20, 2008 in forum: Psychology

  3. need help - tension

    Trading day is done for me. Anyway, graduated descensitization is a technique where you get yourself very relaxed then pull up the image of what...
    Post by: John Bowles, Oct 20, 2008 in forum: Psychology

  4. IB backfill is terrible!

    Yah, it seems okay for me. My MC aborted but I started it immediately and the 1 bar of backfill went real fast. All is well here. In the morning...
    Post by: John Bowles, Oct 20, 2008 in forum: Interactive Brokers

  5. need help - tension

    In a rush here. Quick post. The last post is correct. You have to get in to the situation and do it. Technically this is called "invivo". This...
    Post by: John Bowles, Oct 20, 2008 in forum: Psychology

  6. need help - tension

    Hi, If the books on self talk written for trading are not good enough try the web site which is the web site for the brilliant Psycholgists who...
    Post by: John Bowles, Oct 20, 2008 in forum: Psychology

  7. IB backfill is terrible!

    Hi Saliva, I think they have fixed the problem. They gave me a call on Sunday and I think they put in some more powerful servers from a new...
    Post by: John Bowles, Oct 20, 2008 in forum: Interactive Brokers

  8. IB backfill is terrible!

    Thanks, Jack. I have tightened up my backup of the data as a result of this. I now store the three MUltiCharts data files for each day in a set...
    Post by: John Bowles, Oct 19, 2008 in forum: Interactive Brokers

  9. IB backfill is terrible!

    Maybe I don't understand this quote. I tried resetting my MultiCharts database and opening my workspaces to get the backfill for the day after...
    Post by: John Bowles, Oct 19, 2008 in forum: Interactive Brokers

  10. IB backfill is terrible!

    All threads regarding these TWS flat bars should not really have existed. I use to get regular bulletins on TWS then after one of the releases I...
    Post by: John Bowles, Oct 18, 2008 in forum: Interactive Brokers

  11. Anyone getting flat bars with IB.

    To pressure them, if you are comparing other brokers create a spread sheet with the comparison and post it here and ask others to contribute. Make...
    Post by: John Bowles, Oct 17, 2008 in forum: Trading Software

  12. Anyone getting flat bars with IB.

    Convince IB! As always the pocket book. I sent them an email this morning mentioning that MultiCharts has other brokers they are working on to...
    Post by: John Bowles, Oct 17, 2008 in forum: Trading Software

  13. Anyone getting flat bars with IB.

    So another person on the MC forum who uses IB says they are having problems with YM backfill which is also Globex. Their ESZ8 is also locked....
    Post by: John Bowles, Oct 17, 2008 in forum: Trading Software

  14. Anyone getting flat bars with IB.

    Thanks Tums. That is a good idea except my using the recalculate command causes MC to abort some times as much as once a day. I downloaded "MC 3.1...
    Post by: John Bowles, Oct 17, 2008 in forum: Trading Software