Recent content by dudebro

Thanks IB-AN for the quick response and info.

argh is this serious? how can one buy something without knowing the cost? I mean I understand the cost cannot be known with certainty in advance here, but not even after? if I were associated with such a process I would be embarrassed ...

no chance while TP is around

I'm having a hard time finding the interest I'm being charged on my short stock positions. I see aggregated "interest accrual" entries on my daily statements but I need this on a per security basis, obviously, in order to what I'm paying on each position. Any help appreciated.

um ... IB does not excel at marketing let's leave it at that ... i'm sure this sounded better when said aloud but the message and execution do not come across as intended here. (even then, co-opting the class warfare 99% paradigm is in poor taste ...) also how many people do you really...

fb is a POS but it's not the employees getting screwed, they are the ones who unknowingly with the help of the criminal TBTF syndicate are going to screw over the 401k of millions of americans. fb'ers can dump their garbage after 6 months but 401ks are stuck with this trash in all funds.

the collapse in all three has already occurred. the first to realize it will have the best chance of surviving it.

IMO anyone who believes in govt numbers is either extremely naive and/or taking orders from a TBTF. especially in an election year.

NVM ... believe I found the problem on my end

hello, i'm trying to construct 30s bars on the fly using IB's 5s realTimeBar objects. however, the results I get are very different from the historical 30s bars IB provides through the reqHistoricalData method. i like the historical feed so it would be cool to replicate it for trading. any...