Recent content by cscott

thanks, filtersweep ...don't remember the spread when I entered it. I put a limit order between bid and ask and now the ask dropped to my bid.

Here it is.

having trouble with attachment posting. My forum pages on hanging on the ads.

This is the first Bull Spread I've done. Why is their such a big difference between the bid and the ask? Also, what is the best way to close it?

It took me awhile to figure out Quotetrackers symbol for AT&T options such as T JH. You have to enter 2 or 3 spaces between T and J. Ex: T(2-3 spaces)JH IOW, whenever there is a space in an option symbol, you have to enter an extra space or two. (I forget if it's one or two).

It doesn't save my username and password in the login boxes anymore in Firefox or IE. I'm using the latest TWS. Anyone else have this problem?

This has been a bug for awhile. I'm hoping they will finally fix it. It bugs the hell out of me!

Thanks, but why ending and beginning balance. Isn't one enough? My ending balance is always the same as my beginning for the next month.

Thanks, Wayne, but that's more work that I really wanted to do.

How do I do that?

Just upgraded to TWS 872.6 version. It seems to work with Java 1.6 and the charts appear faster. Nice going IB!

I use Excel to manually enter my trading balance at the end of every month, and then turn it into a graph. With withdrawals and deposits, the graph isn't accurate. How do I enter and graph my trading balance to take into account withdrawal or deposits?