Recent content by dac8555

we are a broker. the account is owned by the owners of the brokerage. it is a company account...therefore it is an individual corporate account. we are a non-us entity. I dont think this is the issue. listen it is late on friday...i am going home. ____________________________________...

well something triggered in their internal processes that froze it obviously. but we were following their instructions on how to do it...which again points back to me that there are overlapping safeguards that conflict with each other and hinder progress in some way. If there was an error...

again...read...the STP progam doesnt apply in my case...this is not an individual account.

this comment and many others are being posted becsue you guys havent read the whole story... I read and undertand very well the rules. We are a foreign institutional broker dealer and the STP device does not apply to our circumstances. That isuue was delt with and pushed aside acouple of...

the salvation of the deal is that we were trying them out to be our provider for our US based operations. LUCKILY this was not client money, but company money. If we had screwed aclient over this...lots of people would have heard about it and our rep would have been damanaged. We have...

good point. there are IDs on file to compare and there are also registered signatures on file. We had to send these to open the account. IB called the CEO as the register person on the account for autorization with about 10 different clearance questions, everything cleared...still no money.

1. we are a non-us based brokerage institution...there are restrictions for some reason. look at the "institutions/ brokers" restrictions. we have nevr had problems with our other insitutions to include Wachovia, Penson, oppenheimer, saxo bank etc. 2. we didnt deal online...we are going...

this is a good point. to avoid this we sent faxes/scans and IDs of the company owners to avoid online glitches...didnt help.

you are a moron. Whining, studduring? i am giving people a heads up you twit. have you ever worked for a financial institution? have you ever done large wire tansfers? we do them ALL the time...muti million dollar transfers. We have had this account for a while. we have major...

As you may have read in other threads...IB now has a new "security protocol". It goes way beyond security, it is dowright restrictive, inconvienent and frustrating. My company has a large coroprate acocunt with IB. I am responsable for it. I Told them that IB was the best there is...

I am offshore and deal in bonds quite a bit. Mostly EM and treasuries...but pretty much anything is a phone call away. what are you looking for? The thing with bonds is that they are OTC and the margins are tiny. so most of the time you need relatively large amounts to get decent pricing...

april 9. looks like a nice short in XLE. feel free to chime in...

i really dont understand what the website validates. I use TA..but if i see a chart that i dont understand, i simply pass it by. let me rephrase that "if a group of people are acting in a randon and unpredicatable way that i dont understand, i dont try to step in and get beaten up by...