Recent content by gerritjan

I am trading S&P mini's. I knew the opening hours, but turning on the WS I saw I could enter orders, so I thought they might have changed the times. The reply of IB is that the exchange started a new release of their software (or something like that) and accidently accepted and executed...

In reply to Sniper Trader1. I checked my position on Monday. I had no open contracts. So for me there was no reason to check my account daily. Checking on a daily basis means that, as of now, I can never again go on a holiday anymore? I understand that you (and all other future traders) can...

I trade futures with IB. In the weekend of May 19 I sold a future on Saturday. Monday (May 21)I checked it, since there is no trading in the weekends they say. TUESday afternoon (May 22)at 15:56 the trade was 'reversed' by a manual order of IB. They say it was erroneous. (The exchange told...

Thanks for your reply Baron. I might consider another database program, I have MSaccess available though so I'd like to try it with that first. Here's some more information. The times and sales table contains the following columns: Key (MSAccess) Date (date/time)Always the same since...

Thanks for the reassuring answers guy. The Dutch system is not paying over capital gains but a fixed percentage over your assets (1.2% yearly). A follow up question. My fiancee is American, should we get married (with a prenoptual), does that change anything?

Anybody knows how to solve the following in MS access: Starting tabel are the times and sales of one day futures (in my case e-mini S&P500. I want to form a (new) table containing time and price of one start trade. Consequently get the time and price of the first sale one point lower or...

I''m a Dutch citizen, I trade futures on the CME of Chicago, should I make some money, do I have to pay taxes to the American government? By the way, I live in the Netherlands, all my trading is done online. Who knows anything about this situation?

At het CME the (E-mini) futures on S&P500 are traded. I am trading these now. I would like the historical times and sales over 2000 and 2001 (and maybe earlier) to research my strategy. I know that they are available daily on the CME website. I have downloaded several of these, I miss a lot of...