Recent content by chanelops

Yeah, this is typical IB customer service. No notice, no nada -- and system status still says everything is fine!!

I'm hearing reports from various traders that IB has suddenly stopped allowing IRA accounts to trade futures, as of this morning. Is this accurate? Can anyone shed any more light on this?

WinstonTJ: thanks much for your comprehensive reply. That is a real detailed set of instructions, with a lot of valuable info. In my case, as I said in my original post, I don't want to build a machine. It's not that I don't want to get thermal grease on my fingers or put boards together...

I agree that not that much cpu power is needed for normal trading. But as I said in my initial post, what's driving the requirement here is model development and backtesting, where I run my current quad-core machine at very high CPU usage rates for hours at a time, often overnight. That...

Thanks for the replies. Scat, going with Dell Outlet means that I give up the ability to configure the machine like I want it, right? So it seems it's just a matter of finding one there that is close enough to my desired specs and going with it, correct? Also, what does "certified...

I'm looking for a workstation to replace my XP machine. (yeah, I know, I should have done this a while ago -- but I don't think I'm the only procrastinator!) Anyhow, I need something fast, high end i7 or low end Xeon, lots of RAM, RAID SSD's, etc. In addition to trading, I use it to do...

I'm looking for either free or low-cost daily yield data on German 10-year government bonds. Not for a specific bond, but rather a curve-derived yield for a hypothetical 10-year bond, much like the US Treasury publishes every day. I need to find the yield data going back 10 years. I was...

Thanks, that did the trick. And I agree about customer service vs ET. Unfortunately, I thought of that right after I made my post!

I assume that I can trade the CME Globex full-size EUR/USD contract on IB, but I'm having trouble finding it. With other brokers, the symbol is usually EC, or sometimes 6E, but neither of those seems to pull up anything on IB. Either I'm missing something, or it's just too late in the day...

This is a relatively simple question, but I'm having a hard time deciphering the IB manual. Here's what I want to do: at a specified time tonight I will be away from my computer, so I now want to enter a market order to buy a security at that time. That's a piece of cake, done it many times...