Search results

I have access to a few news feeds and it is amazing how many times StockTwits has a relevant tweet about a stock minutes before all other sources I follow.

There are protections but it is based on how far off the price was and there are time deadlines for a bust request. Each exchange has different rules.

Well back in the day you could turn off the TWS Update Checker using msconfig under the Startup tab. However, now the Startup tab points to Task Manager and I can't find any TWS Update Checker in the possible tasks there to disable. So I don't know what is going on anymore. If you find out...

Try looking in the Startup tab in Task Manager. Or look at this: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/downloads/autoruns

Go is simple and gets the job done in most cases. It compiles much faster than any other programming language I've ever used and that alone makes it a viable tool for rapid production. Go has grown up a fair amount since its inception (module system, better garbage collection, etc.). I don't use...

I'd like to add my stupid comments even though who really cares: 1. Anybody who says they didn't know these future contracts could go negative had no business trading them. Other futures contracts have gone negative. The fact is, the CME published a notice about this possibility before it...

Maybe look at the API logs for today and see if you can figure out a reason for it not working originally. You might have to turn on an option for the logs to be generated: https://interactivebrokers.github.io/tws-api/support.html Maybe it was the order id you were using? I'm glad all of my...

Another stupid idea: do you have permission to trade currencies in your live account?

So it works as an API order through your paper trading account? Or just manual entry on your paper trading account?

Really strange. That error message has always implied a floating point issue on my end. I don't use Python. I could try to reproduce on my end if you gave a small complete working sample. Your sample above only shows the order code. One other guess - do you need to fill in other price fields...

What I am saying is that maybe when you enter the price in TWS, it is handling the floating point issue properly but when you use the API (I'm assuming you are using Python), there is something going on with how Python interprets the 1.41675 so that when it passes it to IB, IB sees it as...

Totally idiotic brainstorming ideas: 1. Try writing out minTick = 0.00005 2. Maybe it is a floating point issue where the value IB sees is not what you think it is (like 1.41674999 for the lmtPrice) Good luck!

It is just a guess and could be more nuanced. The IRS regulations are so hard to read and comprehend. For example, whether or not you have elected mark-to-market accounting could possibly affect how your sales are categorized. It is possible that your sales fall into the "gross income" category...

https://www.law.cornell.edu/cfr/text/26/1.993-6 My uneducated guess is that the securities you are selling would be considered as being held primarily for sale so "$ Securities Sold". You should contact GreenTraderTax or some other tax organization to help you out.

That's bullsh*t. Fight for every inch.

I don't think that is right but what the hell do I know? My feeling is that since after hours trading is so illiquid that erroneous prints could cause huge swings in margin which brokerages would probably try and avoid. I have no idea - you're welcome for me not answering your question.

I have never heard of that before but it wouldn't surprise me. IB has lots of methods to try and control risk. It would probably be worth your time to call someone at IB who might know.

I don't understand your question. But IB does price-cap orders and so you may want to enter or exit at a certain price but IB won't let you. Their price-capping algorithm is horrifyingly bad when you want to trade a fast moving position that has low liquidity.

I have read that a coronavirus vaccine is difficult to produce because it is a respiratory virus and a potential vaccine can cause the same type of fatal immune response that the virus does. Whether that is true or not, I don't know. I do know that there is no vaccine for SARS and other...

I am curious and I am trying to understand this statement. Here is my guess: you are a systems trader and your system was down because of the recent market crash but you would have made it all back and more on the latest upswing but IB's margin policies were so restrictive as to make this...