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OK, thanks. About the auto close point. Last January (21) I had some short ITM calls which were exercised. I didn't got a notice on friday (or any other day). On sunday I opened TWS and I was simply short the shares (on friday evening I didn't see this position yet). So the shares weren't...

Does anybody know what happens in this scenario (naked call exercise and stock non-borrowable)? I cannot find this on the IB website. Up to now I only sold calls on larger stocks (which were probably always borrowable, I never checked). The default behaviour is that after fridays expiration...

Current TWS update: Dramatic enhancements to IB real-time charts that include a cleaner design, consolidated menus, new Quote Zone data display, smart View menu that automatically adds enable/disable checkboxes for subplots and accessories added to the chart, and a new dropdown dashboard...

I already red the answer here: http://www.interactivebrokers.com/en/general/education/pdfnotes/PDF-FXTrader.php FX order routing has been simplified with all currency orders now routed to IDEALPRO for best-execution functionality, regardless of the size of the trade. Trade quantities for...

A lot of people want to convert currencies for their stock positions (to avoid interest). Therefore, the question of the OP is relevant.

You mean that you can now trade at the IDEAL Pro prices using orders less than $25k? Or do you mean that there was (when IDEAL still existed) a fixed mathematical price relation (regarding IB quotes) between IDEAL and IDEAL Pro and that this relation will be used to determine trade prices for...

Ahh, sorry, you're right.

The routing is no issue when a product only trades on 1 platform (exchange). And for options you can never choose between bundled/unbundled.

I think the only question is if Etrade cooperates on the transfer (regarding cost & time of transfer). You just have to make sure they don't charge you for this. Probably you can find on this forum how this worked out for other people (otherwise somewhere else)...

The safe way is to close all positions at Etrade and open them at IB. The costs for this at IB side are neglegible. Do you know if Etrade charges for thansferring the shares away?

Doesn't he mean 3^2 instead of 3^0.5?

Yes, you can always change your base currency (in account management). Probably it will even be applied immediately (aside from some interest and reporting it has no fundamental meaning). As said above, the 1,6% is only charged when holding overnight. For the long euro amount, IB doesn't pay...

http://individuals.interactivebrokers.com/en/p.php?f=daily_analysis See tab EFP interest.

OK, I forgot that. However, there might be some tricks to avoid this. For instance, when you submit a SMART "pegged to stock" order with a delta 0 (which is essentially just a limit order) then TWS always route to 2 exchanges (I think the 2 which have the low modify fee, i.e. PSE and BOX)...

You can just choose an exchange which doesn't charge these fees. For instance, BOX only charges $0.10 for a modify, which is negligible in my opinion. When only few % of the traders route to BOX (an exchange partially owned by IB BTW) then that's at least a signal to the other exchanges.

For US stocks I thought commissions are 0.005 (bundled) or 0.0035 (unbundled). Or do you mean stocks on some non-US exchange?

IB doesn't seem to list them either. http://individuals.interactivebrokers.com/en/trading/exchanges.php?exch=ipe&showcategories=FUTGRP&ib_entity=llc

Also on base tier it is much cheaper for US stocks.

Even if you only remove liquidity, unbundled is usually much cheaper.

I would recommend IB. Cheap and good execution. Only cost will be data ($10) when you trade less than $30 commissions/month.