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Do a reverse auction. Offer on this board exactly what you want done, and the maximum that you are willing to pay for this project. You looking for people to submit bids on your project, and that you'll go with the lowest bid. All bidders will have to post their bid on the board so that...

Usually this is about when I unsubscribe to the thread ... which I think I will do in fact.

ButtonTrader is a nice tool, and would probably do the trick for you once you climb it's learning curve. -- MMM

Has anyone here quantifiably and rigorously backtested EW? Without doing such a test, I don' t think anyone can make any conclusion about the usability of EW. -- mmm

I was referring to the risk of losing your 25K. If you have $1m due to borrowing, as opposed to $1m from client assets, you are more likely to lose your $25K at a prop firm than at a hedge fund. If you drop 30% at a prop firm, with $1m of leverage, your $25K is history. If you drop 30%...

I believe the new activation process for Symantec products allow for only 5 activations per key. If you for some reason have replaced your computer more than five times, I assume you can contact Symantec and ask them for a new key.

Let's take this further. Say you earn 30% a year on the $1 million. That' $300K of trading gains, less $127.5K of carrying costs. That's a profit of roughtly $170K that you keep. You bear all the downside risk. Losing your initial $25K deposit on a $1 million account wouldn't be too...

Quiccken is able to directly downloads Schwab transactions over the web, and I never had any sequencing problems with those transactions. The method used to download Schwab transactions is different from that used by IB. Schwab is much more integrated with Quicken. Quicken appears to...

Ad-hoc reporting would be very helpful. Any comments from the IB folks who frequent this board?

Just in case Def or other IB folks are reading this, another benefit to IB of putting in better (ie, correct) Quicken integration, and a proper P&L report, is that IB's Help Desk will field fewer calls from clients in the future during Tax time.

Go to the interactive brokers web page. Follow this path: Commmunity | Polls | Statements and Portfolio Management Integration Poll I put in my request for better Quicken integration under item #1, Other. -- MMM

In my past experiments (back in 2003 and 2002) with IB's Quicken import facility, I found that it was quite poor and in fact messed my transaction history in Quicken. In IB's latest poll on account statements (see their web site), I asked them (via the "other" option) to improve their...

Hello, Just wondering if anyone out there heard about how well IB interfaces with Quicken 2004. I've been creating my own QIF my hands so that I can import them into Quicken. However, future versions of Quicken won't support QIF files any more. Thanks. -- MMM

A market on close would be great...unfortunately my broker doesn't support it for globex e-mini futures. -- MMM

Nothing really fancy. On occasion I have a good trade, such as catching a trend up day at the low, and the market looks like it's closing on it's high, and I'm trying to eke out as much as possible from the trade before exiting. -- MMM

Sometimes I close out my position right before the market closes. As I don't know how "off" my clock my be, I usually close it off 30 seconds or more before my PC's time's close, just to be sure. If I had a better grip on the time, I'd cut it a little closer. -- MMM

I belive the Tardis program uses the NTP protocol for time setting. What's needed however is a CME server to provide the time signal. Anyone know of such a server? -- MMM

I concur with OrderBlaster: it would be helpful to have different colors for different order types. Alternatively, a new column field can be added, that could describe in text if the order is native, or simulated. This would take up screen space, but would be better than having nothing...

IBSoft, or Def, or any other IB representative: Can we please have a different color designation when native orders are sent to the exchange and waiting for processing? That would be more informative, and it will reduce the amount of telephone calls to IB's help desk to verify that the...

How can we tell if there is a problem somewhere, such that my stop limit order is held on IB's servers rather than on Globex? I had such a problem several months ago. It was apparent to me because of the difference in colors. My stop limit orders weren't being sent to Globex. They were...