Recent content by dan_s

It continues to amaze me that IB still doesn't have an option to automatically email trade details whenever an order is filled. You can create an alert with $MESSAGE, but after the first fill, $MESSAGE gets replaced with the details from that fill, so you are emailed the same text every time...

As a final follow-up, received a new token on November 14. Activate a token procedures reported a failure, but new token device is working fine, so it looks like everything is ok. Interestingly, the day after receiving the new token device, I received the passcode card for alternative secure...

As a follow-up, I called today and was told that my token now was checked in. However, a new token had not been sent to me. I was told to go to account management and request another token. Previously, I was told to send a note with the token explaining why I was returning it and a new one...

Just venting... I needed a replacement IB secure token. Pursuant to their instructions, I sent it via overnight delivery. It was delivered on Tuesday. I called today (Friday) to find out why I hadn't received a new token yet. They told me that they haven't checked in the tokens received...

Email TOS customer service and let us know what they say. I've been comparing IB and TOS for the last three months or so (placing mirror orders on both, seeing where/when I got filled and who ha the better price). I've had an IB account for about 2 years, but after having customer service...

You also might want to check out the COUNTIF and SUMIF functions. You can get decent help online if you google excel function names. I haven't tried it, but I'm pretty sure MS Works supports all of the basic Excel functionality (including if functions).

What's the best everyone has done in terms of negotiated commission? I recently got a call from a broker that I used in the '90s before pulling my account and going solo. He just switched to ML (talk about jumping to a sinking ship), and asked if I would consider moving my accounts from IB. I...

Looks like stockcharts has them. Just would be nice to not have to go to multiple sources. Might be time to subscribe to a more complete datafeed instead of using built-in broker feeds.

Anyone have any good sources for looking at the various Bullish Percent Indexes (BPFINA, etc.) Both IB and ToS don't provide them.

Thanks. Someone else sent me a private message stating the same.

By end of day, still wasn't working for me. Tried logging in and out (and rebooting computer). I did see that if I opened optiontrader, I would see current quotes for underlying issue (at least I assume quotes were current). Very annoying.