Recent content by MB1708

I've got a 4pc network at home on a wireless LAN, running 2 machines on XP (one home, one pro version), one on w2K and one on windows ME. So far XP is proving to be excellent, subject to a few warnings. It has a nice smooth feel and you can set all the personalisations to look just like w2k...

- My broker sends an e-mail when its time to upgrade. Something I'd really like is time of execution displayed on the status page. Its a pain to have to "detail" every single trade to view this. Also the ability to resize the buy/sell trade ticket would be useful - it takes so much...

bennyo - did you resolve the "cannot send order without an account number" problem? I get the same error message. Regards Michael.

Does anyone have interesting horror stories of on-line trading problems, and whether any redress could be obtained from their broker (apologies if this subject is old hat - I’m new here). I guess everyone must have their own tale - software crashes and inadequate backup happen to us all...

Can anyone suggest a discount futures broker as a backup for IB? My experience of connection dropouts and system freezes with TWS (especially on FTSE futures) makes me nervous to hold any open positions with IB without a backup account at another broker. I do have a couple of backup...

Can anyone suggest a discount futures broker as a backup for IB? My experience of connection dropouts and system freezes with TWS (especially on FTSE futures) makes me nervous to hold any open positions with IB without a backup account at another broker. I do have a couple of backup...