Recent content by stevegee58

She should just man up and do a Martha Stewart. I had tremendous respect for her after that.

I think her voice will change when she finds out she's going to prison.

What? You don't want to be a vampire?

I can see his LinkedIn profile now: "Experienced trader, works well and makes good decisions under pressure. Team player, always keeps stakeholders in the loop."

Dying? Really we're *all* dying aren't we? Like Moe Green from the Godfather, Bernie's probably been dying from the same ailment for decades. As I recall, Bernie was accepting new clients recruited from his synagogue with the unwitting assistance his rabbi. He made fools of otherwise...

I wish IB would just allow me to use the more mainstream 2FA apps like Google Authenticator and Authy. They're perfectly secure and widely used.

That's almost exactly my case. Long term account (2008) with $100 in it. Suddenly I notice a $10 withdrawal last month so I put in a ticket because I thought someone stole it. Turned out it was an inactivity fee for 1 year of no trades. I'm in the process of trying to get them to give it...

Also they charge inactivity fees. I didn't think anyone did that anymore.

Are you guys using mobile networks or WiFi? I've found that I almost always get immediate notification on WiFi but on the mobile network (Verizon) I never get the notification. So when I'm on the mobile network like at work I have to do the manual authentication.

Just convert the C# code I linked earlier to VBA. The algorithms just aren't that complicated.

I know that in the past IB only provided aggregated tick data but the latest API version is providing apparently true tick data. https://interactivebrokers.github.io/tws-api/tick_data.html I haven't tried it personally since I don't day trade.

Under $150K in California? You must be living in your car.

Here's something I posted on this site back in 2015 here. One thing that's changed is it used to be $100/hour and now it's $200/hour :D -------------------- "I'm a software professional and I've implemented a some "great ideas" for free for a few individuals. These were ideas that appeared to...

Go ahead and learn both, after all knowledge is good. For me I found I absolutely suck at picking direction so directional trading on anything is lost on me. Option trading slows down the action and gives me the chance to adjust to being wrong on direction and still make money.

The combo itself has its own market. So if someone has a buy or sell order on the combo then the combo bid/ask takes precedence over the derived bid/ask you'd get from the bid/ask of the legs.