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    Will IB ever offer a true pegged order type?

    I may well be wrong on this but I use the relative order with a zero offset quite frequently and I do think it sticks at a given price if the spread widens. I also think that it loses its place from time to time and you have to cancel and reenter it in order to get back in line. I use to think...
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    I Use Trade Automation and...

    GOTOMYPC seems pricey to me. You might consider ultra@vnc (http://ultravnc.sourceforge.net/) which is free and, with a plugin, I think quite secure. As I understand it, there are versions of VNC that work with the Pocket PC but I have not tried them. I have tried both ultra@vnc and radmin...
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    Alternative to Interactive Brokers?

    WealthLab Developer, which is an excellent product by the way, has an interface with Interactive Brokers. You can take the alerts developed in wealth Lab and arrange for them to be sent as orders to IB when the market price approaches your limit price. It is a very nice feature but it only...
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    Tax Advice

    I think that an individual can carry a capital loss forward indefinitely subject to the constraint that the maximum that can be deducted against ordinary income is usually $3,000 in any given year. Given that the loss is $15,000, it will be used up by the end of the fifth year as the quote...
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    Accounting/Tax Software of Daytraders??

    I think that a trader is still subject to the $3,000 capital loss limitation unless he or she makes a timely mark to market election. MSS
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