Recent content by moonwalker

can one of you please describe me whats going on? i am one of the stupid guys hwo do not have the slightest idea of programming TCP/IP connections but wrote a few simple programs to assist my trading. I use VB6 and use the simple version of drag and drop the tws.ocx to my form. So i have...

Do I get this right? Fed Fund Future June 2004 is staying on 98.975 so the market expects that Sir AG will stay on hold by tomorrows meeting?

Yea right i was short from 8th till 13th. I didn't know the pay date thing yet. Thanks for the info and the help.

thanks mister MR.NBBO

shame on me mister moonwalker !!!!! sorry guys the thing is: I wasn't shorting LLY in march when IB billed me but I was shorting LLY in february when LLY payed dividends. 11-Feb-04 $ 0.36 Cash Dividend So I don't know why I pay a month later but it seems to be all right. thanks...

credit???? Just to make it clear, I do not use margin at all. I only trade cash. I didn't call them yet as I always get the better answers for all IB things out of this board. When I call IB half the time the helpdesk has no idea what I'm talking about. ;) If somebody knows I would...

hi last month I had on my IB account the following line 2004-03-12 LLY(532457108) PAYMENT IN LIEU OF DIVIDEND -35.50 I understand that when I short a stock that I have to pay the dividend, but I did not short LLY last month. So for what I have to pay 35.50 ???? what is LIEU of...

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thanks for your answer lets say the LLC pay the tax themselves. lets keep it simple short-term trading buying a Stock today sell tomorrow. No other income. lets say a tax friendly one like nevada. Thanks anyway for the range but may be you can get a bit more specific, if you know...

I know there couldn't be a 100% correct answer for this question and I do not need one just on an average. Lets say there is a US LLC worth 50K and the LLC trades with this capital and make 10K a year how much do the LLC have after taxes? 55 K or less or more???? Circa???? How much is...

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Hi I have a question regarding the monthly account statement. I would like to send this to IB but there Help Form do not work so may be I find some help here. Question: On the monthly account statements there is a point "Ending Settled Cash" How is this value calculated? Its different...