I trade Crude Oil futures using 5 minute charge. Buying the data for them outside of IB is very expensive. At least on my budget. The subaccount thing is interesting, but I have an individual account. Dunno if I can create subaccounts.
Millionaire, the problem arises if you are trying to use both sim and live accounts at the same time. I trade my live account and test automated strategies on the sim account. Currently you can't do that anymore because they don't let you run both at the same time, in particular they don't...
I'm only speaking to the fact that they will not allow you to use the sim/live accounts at the same time in terms of providing quotes. As far as I know, this covers any instruments, it just flat won't display quotes. There is a way around this, if you don't mind hitting your live account with...
Guys, please complain to IB if you have an account. This is the only way we'll get this reversed.
The dubious amount they save in system resources is dwarfed by the commissions they will lose when it takes me and others longer to take our systems live cuz we can't test them. Or, shutting...
Hey, she is one hell of a trader, better than me! But now, we'll have to go down to one account, so IB is losing commissions due to this stupid restriction.
I've been tearing my hair out trying to figure out why my IB practice accounts stop working at 4:30am. Turns out IB (interactive brokers) has a new policy that you can't use your live account and your practice account at the same time. According to a tech, it's to save computing resources. I...
I signed up for Ino TV for a 3 month trial. Never got much out of it.
So, I thought, I'll just let this elapse. Little did I know hidden in their user agreement is that fact that this was a subscription! I got the nasty surprise of a $50 charge to my credit card 4 months after my ONE TIME...
General, Sir. You keep stating that trading is simple and that there are no great mysteries. Please, enlighten us, what IS the secret to trading?
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