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    Who here is an Accountant??

    Got my B.S. originally in Chemistry (a long time ago) and started med school (only lasted the 1st year as I could not afford it) and then spent a couple of years in grad school in biochemistry until I figured out I could not make any money in that field. Went back to school to get my M.S. in...
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    How familiar is this at IB

    NO!
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    IB increasing option commisions

    And here is the rest of the message: "Effective October 1, 2007, all US option commissions will include external exchange fees if any. IB will reduce its first tier commission from $0.75 to $0.70, while the top tier will remain $0.15 at the highest volumes and we will pass on rebates, as well...
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    IB login failure

    You may want to check the system hours for TWS off of the website. If you are trying to log in to TWS over the weekend, it is down until sometime on Sunday (check the website for specific hours).
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    Software Used to Trade Jack Hershey Methods

    Yes, I do use it often and find it works better than I first expected. I do have to tweak the parameters based on different timeframes, etc. but I have been pleasantly surprised. Even if I don't like the way it is drawn I use lighter, less obtrusive colors so I can draw freestyle over them...
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    Scale and bracket orders at IB

    You can configure hotkeys (either on TWS or BookTrader) to JUST add a target order. If you go into hotkeys and select "Buy", for example, you have 3 options for Attached Orders: 1) Attach Simple Bracket 2) Attach Stop Limit/Trailing Stop 3) Attach Target Limit Order If I read what...
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    IB with Excel

    Do yourself a favor and go to the user manual and I believe the last section is "Application Program Interface" (API) and you will find all the information you need.
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    America is no free market

    I guess Wong moved to Japan (Japanese not Chinese)!
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    New TWS lost settings?

    NO.........
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    Options

    Although I don't agree with your statements, I won't address them. His point was that if you daytrade enough times you will be tagged under the Pattern Daytrader rules and in order to daytrade under these rules, your account must be at least $25,000. You may want to do a search under "pattern...
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    6:1 margin for overnight stock positions at InteractiveBrokers

    Sorry, but I am looking at my account view and the "Try PM" button is there and I am not above 100K.
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    IB, Please add a default offset amounts for target

    I would second the motion to add the option to set it in the order defaults where we could set targets for each contract. Using the hotkeys makes it the same amount for any contract; trying to set up separate hotkeys for the different contracts would be cumbersome and not really practical...
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    software or website with news

    How do you know first? YOU DON'T!
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    ES FutureOptions

    Option exercise is American style. You can find a brochure for the e-mini futures and options on this page: http://www.cme.com/trading/prd/equity/emini-sp500_OR.html
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    IB no interest on first 10K rule, what do you do with the money?

    They have done some webinars on this which were hosted by OneChicago (probably archived by now).
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    IB: unrealized Profit/Loss not using the right bid-ask

    From the latest IB Communique: "Adjust Average Cost for any position, not just cash positions. "
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    IB's Pinks, OTC & Nasdaq Level II Pricing

    What a novel idea!! "Make money off its customers"!?
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    book trader vs button

    This is available in the newest TWS version (just recently made available for the standalone). I believe that if you go to configure and settings (for booktrader) you will see the various (3) options to choose at the top.
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    IB quotes slower?

    No!
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    IB TWS detatch page feature

    Just tried "drag and drop" and it worked fine for me (using the latest version of TWS). You do have to be careful to not select either of the new icons.
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