Recent content by Steve_IB

You would not gain that much. No matter how fast or big your link is - it's still got along way to go. "Well below 50ms" puts it at light speed - which would be about 43ms from HK to NY. When you measure your latency via ping times, remember that's a round-trip. HK ISPs tend to be very...

The primary reason to change your hosting to HK would be because you have problems with the midnight US reset. Keeping things simple: If your account is hosted in the US then your order goes from your PC to our US hub and then gets sent to Hong Kong hub via our high speed line between...

This was processed over the weekend. You should all be set now. If you run into issues then call the HK desk at +852-2156-7907 or contact them through the chat.

IB is usually ranked in the top one or two on the HSI by volume, and you should find speed and execution quality second to none. If you contact the IB-HK CS desk and request to switch to the Asian server then we can do the switch over the weekend. You will not have the downtime at midnight...

Just to clarify: Quarterly paper statements are being sent to Financial Advisor client accounts only. We are not extending this to any other account type.

BPTrader- We (IB) are not paying you for the liquidity. The liquidity rebate is paid to you via the exchange/ECN. FutsTrader. Yes, for INET the rebate is $0.0025 per share. For NYSE the rebate is only $0.001 per share. Thus, your costs would be $45 per side, i.e. $90 per roundtrip...

You're calculating it incorrectly. 30,000 Shares, IB charge you $105. Now if you are adding liquidity to say INET, then you get a rebate of 0.0025 per share = $75. Total $105-$75 = $30. So that takes you to $60 a round trip. This is what it'll cost for the first 5 round trips. After...

You could also check out the FX options on on the ISE http://www.ise.com/WebForm/viewPage.aspx?categoryId=98&header0=true&menu2=true&link1=true

Interactive Brokers Acquires Japan’s Moriai Securities as it Increases Asian Presence Greenwich, CT – December 11, 2008 – Interactive Brokers announces the successful acquisition of Japan’s Moriai Securities, a fully-licensed broker-dealer. As of this week the new company will be...

The CFTC has recently approved the trading of Korean Kospi 200 Futures by US residents. Interactive Brokers is now making this product available to its US customers. You can sign up via Account Management!

If you've already closed your account then it maybe difficult to find the time and sales. Assuming you have access to another account, lets take say SIN8. Bring up the chart, your issue was on 5th June, so bring up a 2 week chart. Click on Time and Sales icon, go to the bar which corresponds...

Assuming you have your stop trigger set to last price, then we will look at the traded prices reported. When a trade is done at or below your stop price in the case of a sell stop, we will send in an order to the exchange. This order type depends on what the exchange supports. You can get...

There are many mainland stocks listed in Hong Kong. If you're after leverage then many of these also have warrants.