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I have read of several accountants that put in a summary of all trades of each account showing the total cost basis for all trades in the year, total sales, etc. and include some note saying that detailed records are available upon request. That's what has been done for me in the past. I...

I'm a happy TradeLog user as well for 3 years now. I import my IB trades daily from the daily IB e-mail statements and I don't recall having any problem with the short vs long trades. I've also imported from the IB webpage with success but my standard process is just to save the email to file...

It's not what the 3Com card has over the other cards that matters. (Heck - they all do the same basic function.) But the big deal is what you get if you don't use a netcard that doesn't work with IB TWS and your an IB TWS user >>> blue screen of death, crashed system, or similar. It's not a...

Just make sure they stand behind their work making sure you get a system your happy with and are there to help you if you need something upgraded or changed. There are many people that are probably best served getting their PC already put together for them or buying an out of the box solution. I...

Here's the link to the netcards IB says are ok: http://www.interactivebrokers.com/html/tws/twsFaqs/faq.html#NICs it was part of the TWS FAQ's which for the life of me I can't seem to find on their webpage but I had the link from a recent exchange of e-mail's with IB support about another...

I don't have hard facts on this - it's just my observation/belief ... but I think I've preferred when trading NYSE stocks to use just a plan 'Stop' order and NOT use 'Stop Limit' order. Ignoring the risk that a 'Stop Limit' order may not provide you with a fill (which it very well might not) it...

The OCA feature is something you explicitly have to use. If you aren't using it then your not going to have any order automatically cancelled for you. You won't find much on OCA without reading about it first in the IB TWS User Guide. The OCA feature requires that you expose the 'OCA group'...

hard drive: I like two hard drives as well. I've got two 30 GB drives. One is used all the time as my main hard drive. The other is also on-line all the time but I use it for backup. I backup the programs and data from the main drive onto the backup drive and it's super fast and easy. I also...

Seanote - I'm thankful for your posts but I did like the per trade results in points vs your P/L in $. By posting in points gained/lost it was easier for the average reader to translate that into their own notion of size. With $ it becomes slower and a little more difficult reading to translate...

Yes I could see yesterday's trade in QLGC better than today's. What attracted you to the two trades (yesterday's and today's) - especially today's since that's the one I'm having a harder time seeing? Thanks, - David I

Here's what I see when I visit the trading forum. All others are fine. I found that I can hack my way through this by dragging another window over and across the browser window. The screw-up with the background fill process is such that moving a window across the browser re-paints in some of the...

Baron, I imagine your working to get some resolution but just to add my bit to the pot ... it's very difficult for me to read any of the threads in the Trading forum due to the background color problem and I'll be very interested to see that situation resolved. I can see the titles of the...

Seanote, Please continue posting. I also find your postings, results and work to be inspirational and look forward to more. Thank you for what you've shared so far! - David

I've looked in the help area and I see mention of not only keeping track of buddies but also some mention of being able to ignore posts of specific users. However I don't see what it is that I do to get ET to recognize I want to ignore certain users. I've also done a search on "ignore a user"...

I think a good book review should stand on it's own and should be independent of whether any one book vendor carries that book or not. There are many book vendors and even for out of print books there are vendors that will work to obtain a book you want from the used marketplace. If a book on...

I like RealTick or ErlangerQuote. Either will allow you to have lots of charts. I prefer the rock solid quote delivery of RealTick but I prefer the ease of use and all the cool tools, etc. you can use with ErlangerQuote [EQ]. Note when comparing costs you need to consider that EQ requires a...

I'm long one position from a swing trade in a NYSE issue with an OCA group straddling both sides of the trade. Currently the stock is trading within that range. Yesterday however I was in the same position with another NYSE trade and an OCA group straddling it and the stock traded to and past...

I had the same problem on two different systems last year (one with 4 monitors the other has 6 monitors.) After lots of tinkering and thinking and no answer of help from RealTick support on what the problem or solution might be a friend and I hit upon the combination of things that cause the...

If your asking about how to get completed trade information into excel then this is what I do. TradeLog can get completed trade information one of 5 ways from InteractiveBroker's e-mailed statements/web pages/log files. Pick you're favorite way. Specifics for InteractiveBroker users are in the...

I use a third party application to do that. I use it to grab my transaction histories from various brokers including IB. It has different reports and options for reviewing/searching through your trades and results but one of the features I like best (besides dealing with the different methods...