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Thanks guys.

Say my account size is $100k on Interactive Brokers. I have purchased $200k of IBM, and shorted $100k of SPY. Do I need to pay margin interests on the $100k borrowed for IBM? What if I short $100k of SPX futures instead of SPY. In this case, do I need to pay the interests on IBM's margin? Thanks.

Is there anywhere we can download the earnings for MSCI country indices such as the underlying index for EWZ, EWI, or EWC? I want to calculate and update the historical P/E of the indices, so I am looking for index level earnings, not individual companies. Thanks.

Three is a bug with your blog pages when opened on Android browers. It keeps automatically jumping to the next article after a few seconds on a page. Tried two browsers and same thing happened.

Thanks guys. I will copy some exception handling from IB's sample files to see if they can solve the problem.

I am trying to use Python IB API to do a simple task: at 10 am every day, the program first gets the size of the account, then buys 10 share of a stock. Based on the codes presented in IB's webinar, I am able to write this basic program (below), which I want to run 24/7. There is one problem...

Ah yes, I forgot to change the port in the sample code and enable API in this new installation of TWS. But after I did them, I got a new set of messages saying there was an exception:

Thanks for your guide. I tried to run the sample code in your first post, but got these messages. Why?

Humble Investor, What's the advantage of DarkSeek over Seek? Doesn't Seek include DarkSeek pools, i.e have better liquidity than DarkSeek? Thanks.

Interesting silence to this important question.

That sounds like a way to target the mid price, but HI said DS didn't do that. That's why I asked for clarification.

Hi HI, You mentioned earlier that "if you really want to get faster fills, just select Seek Aggressive with inside NBBO or midpoint parameter." What does the "midpoint parameter" do? Does it make the DS algo target mid price? Thanks.

I tried many popular tickers such as SPY or IBM, but the REL order type was not available when I chose JEFFALGO->DS.

One more question related to VWAP orders: What is the best practice for the limit price for a VWAP order? Setting it in the bid/ask range is usually too low because the market often moves outside of the range by the end time, and the order can't be filled except in the beginning. Setting it...

Where is the option for using the relative order with an offset? Is it one of the selections in the WoW Reference menu? Thank you.

Very clear, thank you very much.

Too bad Jeff DS doesn't have the mid point algo. Crossfinder's adaptive mid point method allows me to not stare at the screen all the time to keep changing the limit prices.

I read that news, but practically speaking, if they still have better prices or liquidity after all that, we should still consider it though.

Different IB representitives (at the trading desk) gave me different answers, some said yes some said no. It seemed like they didn’t often get questions about VWAP orders. I didn’t say I didn’t believe you. Could you explain how 1) and 2) are different, for example for an illiquid stock? If I...

Have you tested Crossfinder for your trades? How does it compare to DS in terms of prices and likelyhood to get filled? Thanks.