Recent content by davidc123

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On that note I'm going to start posting my p/l. I usually only trade the pm session and it won't be every day. Today should have been a big winner but ended up with smallish loss. -34 David.

Just wanted to share my view on this. I'm an engineer and I believe I have found trading difficult because of it, although not the reason quoted. Personally I have no problem accepting a trade may or may not work out, my problem has been my need to be clever. I have many times passed on a trade...

Hi, I've recently discovered that because the base currency of my IB account is GBP, the cash from any USD trades I make isn't automatically converted back to GBP once I close the position, so I effectively hold a GBP/USD FX position after every trade. To get around this, every night I've...

beatiful, works perfectly now. thanks a lot.

Yeah that's true, it works on xp. But that's not really an option for me, and the tws docs say it supports vista.

Hi, I've sent IB a message about this but i'm not expecting a reply for few days so thought someone here may be able to help... I've just got a new vista laptop and TWS wont get past the loading screen. I've tried the latest version and the previous version and both dont work, and i'm...