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At this point, I would not want IB to invest much time, resources, programmers in charting business. I would want IB to rather concentrate on fixing the bugs in regular orders and make the trading platform more robust and reliable. Steve IB, I do like IB's features polls. Thanks for...

TWS' "trailing stop-limit" order or the conditional trailing stop-limit order should help.

Could anyone comment on MBTX's executions versus MBTR's executions?

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IB chat CSR says, "No". You have to withdraw out of your regular account, then properly deposit to your IRA clearly specifying it as a contribution for a certain year.

stock777, your calculation is right for the bundled pricing. However, for unbundled pricing, no such maximum ceiling form commissions exist according to the IB chat CSR.

According to MB Trading, if you use their auto-router to place an order, it will automatically cancel and re-place an order after a certain period of time to avoid the specialist fees. Otherwise, you have to do that yourself if you want to avoid that fee. SEC fee is for the sell order only...

Apparently MB Trading's new per-share (no rebate) rate plan-C is $0.004/share for the first 4000 shares and then $0.01/share afterwards. The old per share plan-A rate i.e., $0.01/share for the first 500 shares and then $0.005/share afterwards is also there. If you take out liquidity more...

I think there are six different ways to place trades at Ameritrade. You can use different conditions for trade triggers with respect to the same or different securities without adversely affecting your buying power. AmeritradeIzone did not include TradeTriggers as of last month. Izone...

IBj. If IB's email support gets completely de-activated how will the potential new customers get hold of IB electronically specially if they do not want to stay on hold on the phone?

IB's Trouble Ticket has a partially working feature of sending emails if it gets updated. However, it does not seem to send emails in many occasions. In some occasions, certain IB CSRs closed the ticket surreptitiously without updating it with any notes/comments, and the system did not send...

JackR, your suggested approaches are good in general but simply do not prevent certain CSRs from suddenly closing the tickets without notifying the customer (or without leaving any comments) after initially deceivingly asking for more time. If somehow 7 days go by after a ticket has been closed...

There is a pattern of negligence in some cases by certain IB CSRs;-- johnw, rickv are not the only ones. I also think IB's Trouble Ticket should have some kind of "Escalate" button to involve an IB supervisor. However, to prevent too many calls to a supervisor, IB may consider charging a small...

IB chat CSR seemed very unfamiliar with "trailing stop-limit". Finally, the CSR said that the order had been temporarily disabled. My request is to enable a working version of "trailing stop-limit" order, in which the limit price can be auto-adjusted to the stop-activation price (perhaps up to...

DarthSidious, you need to check if your from TWS-->Account of your "buying power" got updated or not. IB's ACH-in is free and faster than the mail deposit. Even though IB's ACH-in is not as fast Ameritrade's (who makes the transfer it available to trade by overnight), it only takes 4-8...

IB is now a big fish. Like other large firms, IB now puts quite a bit of advertisements. However, unlike Etrade's or Scotttrade's advertisements, IB's TV advertisement is actually cool. (I am talking about the one with the robot Smart router flailing its arms very fast to route the orders :).)

Stecchino, In Ameritrade's cash accounts, you do not have to wait 3 days after the sale date before you can buy using the proceeds of the previous purchase. Their interpretation of rules is little bit different. Besides, in their web site, I saw a term "Next Day Settlement". I am not 100% what...

If you wire-in money into IB, it may get posted any time from the same day to 4 days. However, you will be able to use that money to trade one day after it gets posted in your IB account according to an IB CSR.

Ameritrade has an option to create a "Schedule D" for you. Does anyone have any program (e.g., Excel, etc.) which will convert IB's yearly/monthly/daily statements into IRS' "Schedule D" type format?

If I have an individual cash account, a margin account, a Traditional IRA, a Roth IRA, and a Rollover IRA at IB, will IB protect these accounts up to the maximum insurance limit individually since the titles of the accounts are slightly different?