Recent content by Sam Mcgee

Did you ever find a solution for the error message? I'm getting a similar error message every day after the 24 hour auto restart fails for TWS: "login failed - soft token = 0 received instead of expected permanent for ndc1.ibllc.com:4001" I've opened a ticket with Interactive Brokers for...

I'm looking for a good source of paid daily trading signals for stocks. I generate my own trading signals, but I'd like to add to that for diversity. Does anyone have any recommendations?

Is there a way to limit the dollar amount or number of trades in an account for a single day? I have a trading system where I send 40 limit buy orders each morning. Typically only a few of the buy orders get hit each day. However, if more than 10 buy orders get triggered, I'd like to stop any...

I did figure out one way to work around it. When I create the basket order in Excel, for any sell orders, I just set 0 for the quantity. When I upload the basket, IB gives an error message saying that "size must be specified" but I select OK anyways. Then I click on the quantity for each symbol...

I like to create a csv file every day to upload to IB with the Basket Trader. For most cases, for a sell order, I would just like to sell all the shares for a particular symbol, yet it would seem that I have to enter a specific quantity of shares. Is there anyway around this? Is there a way that...

I think I've figured out how I can make my 40 limit orders of $10,000 each on a $100,000 non margin account. It looks like Limit if Touched or LIT orders will work on Interactive Brokers. I tried issuing more LIT orders than the funds available in my account and it seems to work.

The BasketTrader will read a csv file and execute trades from it. It's a lot more accurate and convenient than entering the trades manually.

Yes, I'm sure that's possible to make software to detect your open trades, but it would be a lot easier if you could simply block short selling.

I'm generating buy and sell signals for a number of stocks each day with Amibroker that get saved into a csv file which then gets converted into another csv file that is compatible with the BasketTrader

I've just started to trade successfully with IB's BasketTrader. My worry is that my software will calculate a sell for a stock that I don't hold because I missed the buy. Then that sell order can get to my BasketTrader. Is there a field that I can fill in or a setting that I can make for...

Sorry, I got busy with other things and didn't pay attention to this thread. I didn't think it would generate so many responses. Thank you so much to everyone! I did try this with IB, to place more than 10 conditional orders that would only send limit orders if the price came close such as what...