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I would assume that the lower discount price will revert back to the regular price at some time in the future. Can anyone clarify this? So, in effect, this may just be a trial to allow new clients to try it out before commiting to the full price. Personally, I'm looking at qcharts, first for...

That's the latest info as far as I can find. Yes, '84 seems outdated as it was written before the average retail guy was shorting and trading in mass since the online trading explosion. You can imagine how difficult reporting taxes could be whereby you claim capital gains on the longs and...

Steeldust, are you short selling and claiming the profits as capital gains? Revenue Canada documentation states that these trades are considered income. "18. The gain or loss on the "short sale" of shares is considered to be on income account."...

-If someone is trading eminis and short selling equities parttime(in the mornings for example), while working fulltime in a job would revenue Canada consider this a business and allow for the usual deductions - ie. equipment/office/educational materials. - Would weekly/monthly long position...

For eminis I don't get a quote until I backfill, and then I get a quote but it doesn't stream. They are frozen in time.

Anyone know what symbol format to use for eminis in Quotetracker with IQfeed? I've tried them all... I think.

I get volume with IB datafeed. Make sure you are running the latest version - 3.0.1.

I'm trying to get Quotetracker working with IQfeed. I signed up today for their trial but get the popup error when logging into quotetracker: "Client Data Server has encountered problem and needs to close...". This occurs after the IQfeed user/passwd request. IB quotes worked previously.

hrifraf, Did you ever get an answer to your question: "So my question is, what is the best course of action for a Canadian looking for an economical online broker, and realtime quotes and charts?" Any other Canadians have a good trading setup they are happy with? How about IB Canada...