Recent content by bignatty

Perfect. Thanks all!

I know IB allows futures and stocks in the same account. How does this work with margin? For example, say you wanted 110% equity and 110% 10 Year Treasury exposure through futures (ZN). Knowing that the treasury futures require cash as collateral, how does this work? In order to get to 110%...

Does anyone use market on open with IB? Will odd lots be supprted with this? Also, can these be entered on Sunday night for exectution Monday morning? Thanks. p.s. I know this isn't IB support but I am just looking for insight from anyone who uses this type of order.

My guess is hedge funds in crowded trades that need to liquidate to bring down leverage. Notice also the short squeeze in financials as of late too.

their tax forms are all F--UP. Still haven't got my SCHD. They just keep telling me they are working on it. Really unprofessional accounting unit over there.

Still no SCH D for my account. I just called and was told they don't know when my SCH D will be available and the annual statement is only available in PDF. So now with less than a month left I need to download each month's statement and try to reconcile through excel. FU IB. YOUR CUSTOMER...

Well that $.03 will still be worth more than your paper account

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This is ridiculous. I have an IRA with IB and will be looking to convert it to a ROTH in 2010 when the income limits for conversions are waived. Does this mean I need to move my IRA somehwhere else, convert it to a ROTH and then move it back to IB. This sucks. Anyone else been thinking about this?

Not having split adjusted prices is a problem in backtesting because if for example you have price as a screen factor i.e. price>5 then the stocks picked by the backtester will not be the same as they would have been in real time because the prices have been split adjusted. Also to check the...

Zack's Research Wizard suffers from many data pitfalls. The worst of all being survior bias. In other words stocks that go bankrupt or get bought out no longer exist in there database so this skews backtests as being more favorable in many cases than what would have be acheived in real time...