Recent content by Catoosa

MK020, When I take a futures position I hope I will be holding it for several days. I may close the position in 5 minutes if I think I made a mistake and took the wrong side; but, I would never have taken the position if I thought I might want to close it within a day. I hope to do better than...

MK020, IB would set you up a universal account that pays interest. IB would moves move cash to and from your futures account to cover the exposure in the futures account. You would not have to keep up with the cash movements as long as you have more than adequate cash in your universal account...

I also have the same concern on shares and cash held at brokers. Forty to fifty years ago brokers would register my shares in my name. When I sold the shares, the broker would have me sign on the back of the shares within three days of the sell date. I think I can still find brokers that will...

You now have to use a different "back door" to get to the old UI: Settings>User Settings>Secure Login Systems>Yes>"You are there".

Thank You for your reply. I am using Linux Mint 18.3 xfce with Firefox and Google Chrome browsers. I can log onto the new account management but can not see the "small gears" the instruction video says to click on to navigate to where I need to go. When I login to the home page, I can see the...

Not all of the 10 banks used for the deposit sweep are banks where I would want my money. I think I saw only about two banks on the list that I would want to use.

I hate the new account management UI. IB has replaced a great and easy to use menu driven account management with one that is horrible. The new account management will not function on a Linux PC and Linux is what I use all the time. I had to use a windows PC to find out how bad the new account...

TradeKing/MBTrading is another broker offering checking/debit on trading account.

You can subscribe individually.

barata, I am also still using Windows 2000 and have considered Windows XP. However, for me, Microsoft does not fit well in my way of thinking.

barata, are you still running TWS and Quotetracker on a Linux PC? If so, how is that working out?

The order servers are different from the quote servers. The quotes servers only help you enter your orders on the order servers. So, if you only want to trade stocks on the NYSE, you need only subscribe to the NYSE level 1 quotes.

I see "forums" three times (2 at top, 1 at bottom).

In my opinion, not having page numbers at the top and bottom of the page has made this site harder to use.

One out of twelve (8%) of men have some amount of color vision impairment. I am part of that 8%. The light green fonts and the light blue fonts on the forums list page are difficult for me to see well enough to easily read. If those light shades of green and blue were used for the post fonts, I...