Recent content by youarefired

I don't like IDEAL pro, I made a few trades and there was fishy stuff going on, executions would take forever, the spreads were scary at times, and the stop logic I didn't like it either. When in doubt , call

It's obvious IB developers live in their own world with little consideration for traders day to day use of the platform. Adding functionalities is great although no one should be forced to constantly upgrade. And above all ease of use, ergonomics and reliability should be the priority and...

it's my own fault for upgrading ?! every now and then THEY force you to upgrade anyway I upgraded because of some minor bug in previous version. I usually never upgrade but they force you to.

I downloaded the new TWS. It's a POS it took forever to load and was slow. I almost lost a ton at the open because it was so slow. Only thing that saved me was that I had a login ready on another PC with older TWS build. I downgraded immediately . Today I tried to make a trade with...

I have been long CWPC since $2 , what aride ! What bothers me is I know nothing about that stock, it's OTCC BB, there is no info on it. It's the trader-report.com which got me in on pure technical reasons I understand but I feel like it could go much higher . Not sure what to do especially with...

Why can't TWS tell you about such events when they happen and give you 5 minutes to start liquidating the positions you choose ? NO it can't but it does have a zillion things I hardly use ! All these stories are just another sign that IB does not give a damn about individual accounts. Like...

anyone can explain why the 30 year rate dropped 10 basis points? I understand the new bond drew a yield of 4.53% , why does that cause the yield to drop from 4.64 to 4.47 at the open on Friday? How is the new yield calculated?

on not held basis, what does that mean ? if you only trade long options, how can a busted trade have disasetrous consequences?

that sucks I haven't had a good experience with the people from eSignal/ Futuresource and their products are overpriced

Hey for those who were around back in the 70's and 80's I was wondering how stocks were perceived before the secular bull that started in 1982. What kind of environment were investors facing in the late 70's? How would you charecterize sentiment back then? What about 1987-88? I read in...

I have no intention of changing broker. I just wish IB would make life easier not more complicated . Hopefully IB will look into the SMART algorithm and the quotes . alanm is probably right, the odd lot order must have blocked the order from being executed. That is one thing IB should...

we 'll talk about that the day you lose a few hundreds because of an IB order that did not trigger, or because some new bug or some new feature you were not aware of got in the way of your order in fast market

nOW here is another annoying bug for you to fix, this is a NEW bug for all I know place your cursor in the "size" box after you created an order. Now say you have 300 in there but you want to trade an odd lot, place the cursor between the 3 and the zeros , delete one 0 enter another digit ...