Recent content by mikesmithv

I cannot transfer funds logged into the second account - I just checked. I misspoke when I said "with the same privileges". I never tried to transfer money when I'm traveling so I didn't realize this was the case, but I'm rather glad for that restriction actually.

You can do it on-line. Log into Account Management and under "Manage Account" choose "Access Rights ==> Users". On that page that comes up there is an "Add User" button. It used to just say "2nd user" I think. It seems you can have more than just one more user now.

IB allows you to create a "second user" for the same account with all the privileges of the primary user. I did this and they issued me a card for that user/account. It's less secure I supposed but I prefer that for travelling. My primary user login uses the electronic device so I have the...

There is no way of knowing the answer to that without getting into the nuts and bolts of what is happening. Maybe the right-most bar once traded at your buy price but by the time X >10 that trade would never trigger because price is on an upward tear, all within that same bar that is forming...

I always use the latest Java version and I've noticed this too but I thought it was because I was using Linux (Ubuntu 13.04) and it was some Linux bug. I get around it by clicking once on the ask price for buys or bid price for sells, then right clicking in the new row and selecting "Modify"...

And there's the trick, going for the scraps the big boys don't want to bother with. My most successful strategy is still the least scalable (and something no one in his right mind would think of doing). Built my system from scratch also.

Geek humor is usually pretty dry but that was hilarious. And I'm even a big fan of git!

Dec 2008 $36.60 Dec 2009 $76.53 Dec 2010 $96.36 Dec 2011 $98.99 Dec 2012 close today was $109.30. Do you feel lucky?

We outsiders see "This website is coming soon, please check back later." I suspect if you follow that link with cookies disabled that's what you would see.

Ever tried to Google Birchwood Analytics?

Having your system running on a remote computer where you have to connect to see what is going on has it's disadvantages too. One time I my broker lost contact with the exchange and there were several positions whose status were unknown because my system had attempted to close the positions and...

Interesting stuff. They also have a "3G Failover" link that describes a system just for this kind of thing. I tried using my cell phone for my ATS connection (in tethered mode) and I found my cell phone network to be choppy with streaming tick data, like the speed was constantly being...

Just make your computer "beep" repeatedly and if your speakers are not loud enough buy louder ones. What software environment are you using? Even if your setup doesn't support that I'll bet there's a creative way to do it.

More on my transition from NetBeans. The Eclipse editor highlighted this obvious error and reported "Null pointer access: The variable td can only be null at this location": ThrustData td = timeVolData.getThrustData(); if (td == null) { newPriceCount = td.getNumTicks(); } The...

Thanks for posting that. I downloaded Eclipse and Window Builder Pro and it is very good. I switched years ago to Netbeans from Eclipse primarily for the UI builder so I was pleased to see all my past work is read directly by Window Builder Pro. It feels good to get back to Eclipse. This...