Recent content by vette

yes, that is what it said. but it also didn't say what the margin requirements will be. if it turns out to be an absurd value, then you can do your own math.

the text of the email would lend credence to the rumor of this move being related to accounts that were blown out to negative values by the CHF de-peg. anyway, looks like you will have to have call option protection to short index futures soon.

I am seeing permissions re-enabled this am; anyone else?

my primary use for it is not to lose more money than necessary when unscheduled news hits the wire and you might otherwise have no idea why the market is jumping.

I've been having issues with newsstrike for a few weeks, mostly words getting cut off while reading the news, etc. today, not hearing anything but noise sometimes. anyone else?

Jerry, thx for thinking about it. probably will wait to see if IB fixes it. I have another feed I can use from MBTrading, but it seems to have issues at times as well. also it seems it no longer allows you to use two connections at the same time, i.e., one for QT charts and one for the...

Jerry, a theoretical question in the eventuality that IB doesn't fix the total volume update frequency; would it be possible to create an intermediate service that sits between QT and TWS that builds a correct, real-time total volume based off the individual trade blocks it sees passing...

I am having same issue with delayed volume updates/spikes using latest IB TWS, 924.3a. if anyone finds a fix, please post. it started last week, and found if i closed and restarted TWS, usually it started working again. this week, restarts not helping.