Recent content by cashola

Anybody with a measure of trader kindness will surely sympathize with your situation. I might add a couple of comments on this with no self aggrandizing sardonics. I trade many markets with IB, many trades a day, and I habitually bring up the "Audit" (expanded) to view the confirmation #'s...

I build all my own boxes from scratch and have used video configurations similar to the ones you are working with. I use Asus and Mach speed motherboards in general and have had little difficulties with undamaged components. The Dell Vostro 400 has a foxconn motherboard (so it has been...

Remember that you will sacrifice the risk free interest over time when you buy the underlying. The futures obviously price in the interest/dividend net which usually results in contango. The small cost of securing the futures contract allows you to "keep" the interest.

There is no wash sale rule ...just ACB adjustments for less than 30 day repurchase...

HoundDogOne has the correct spin on the realities of tax rules for traders. The ordinary phone jockeys taking your questions at CRA are minimally skilled ambiguous props. Any one reporting so called Day trading on a capital account is clearly violating multiple sections of the code. Short...

I wouldn't waste my time or IB's until I checked the Audit in the JTS. With practice you can confirm cancels and fills in 10 to 20 seconds on your own. Clearly one should insure that a transaction confirmation # follows the request. I wouldn't complain about the TWS help files or IB's level of...

I always keep an editor with the days Audit file loaded and at the bottom of the screen. If I need a confirmation of a fill or cancel I just pop the file up, refresh and check it out. You can obviously use the button on TWS but I find my way faster. I bet I do this 20 times a day especially with...

Taking delivery means paying up in full...no margin. It would take a delivery demand of 150 million ozs to increase the pulse of the dealers and send them running. If the average ET'r took delivery of 10 blocks (13 grand a piece) it would take 15,000 ET'rs to do the job. Just 10% of that volume...

As of today I would estimate that Silver is about 20% of my net worth. A core position in Comex style blocks ( insured storage) is the long position. I trade the YI and ZI daily playing the movements as seems fit. I have been staring at the price flow for 4 years. My understanding and...

I must say that as an IB customer executing 8000+ trades a year in 2 accounts I have had only several bust/reconciliation issues. Just yesterday I was playing a somnolent DIA ,building in and out 200 shares at a time. With the slow action I routed 200 shares short to Amex (I know...they should...

Hi ozzy that stuff is available by openning a market scanner page and selecting "market statistics" in the right hand column. This is the only way to get this from IB Advancers and decliners are only presented separately...hope this helps

Just load your Thu.audit.xml in notepad and scroll down the (long) list noting entries and exits. It is in your JTS folder..in a subdirectory. Unless you did a hundred trades today it is pretty fast . Do your P/L on a calculator adding commission by hand. It is the final word intraday on the...

I just changed my increment to "A" and decrement to "Z" and cancel to "spacebar"....works fine ...until they fix it.

I have got to echo Bundlemaker on this one. IB bashing is a full contact sport on ET and I do enjoy some of the sniveling. Voyeurism...cognitive dissonance...what ever. In the spirit of non confrontation I have to suggest you go out and drop $500 on a new box...maybe an Asus MB ...1 gig...cheap...

A universal account does not convert the currency for a non base transaction. There is no exchange...if IB told you that then get it in writing and match it up against there own literature. You must have called Interactive Jokers :D