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This thread won't load for me after marketsurfes quote (5th post) Here is the html that stops it from loading in firefox it has this bit that stops the page from rendering: src="http:// </b> and then a < slash b > and it seems when i write the text alone it hangs the post in...

It could also be the graphics card (GPU) if you have a dedicated one for the screens. If you are using the motherboard DVI/VGA outputs then it's probably the motherboard that failed. You can also get those beeps if the external power plug to your GPU was unplugged, if there is one in the first...

If you want speed, use the Intel compiler on an Intel CPU (not AMD!). It's not a nightmare to get it to work, in fact you just switch the compiler in options and it should work. There are some very rare cases that you might have a problem but the Intel compiler has so many options you can...

Fat fingers or lack of eye glasses, or both, ouch. Yeah the TWS settings saved me twice so far, but i don't often manually enter orders. Configuration > Presets > Stocks (or any other) > Show All possible fields > scroll down to Precautionary Settings

If you use C# .Net it's only 3 lines to download HTML from a URL into a string. Then you can parse it any way you want, and if you know anything about parsing, mostly it will be easy stuff to code. If it's not HTML then it's harder. Another advantage is also you can iterate through many URLs...

I was unable to log in yesterday with Firefox. Cleared my cache, cookies and other stuff and then it was fixed. I assumed that to be solution simply by seeing how their website is built. It has a few ... misgivings let's just say... So clear your cache, cookies, etc (ctrl-shift-del in firefox)...

I need historical NAV data for all listed US closed-end-funds. I searched a little, but gave up. I found several sources for end-of-day only (previous day NAV), but nowhere to download it in some txt format so it's not easy to make good use of. For example Morningstar and Bloomberg websites...

Oh... ok that's interesting. I might pull the data for a few months then just to see if it's any good. It's incredibly complicated to get daily OHLC data very quickly with a lot of the data providers, even the expensive ones, so this might be useful if nothing else as an alternative data check /...

Hold on a second, i'm not sure i understand this. You can get OHLC data (daily) via Yahoo query or only last & volume? If OHLC, ok Bob has a point, and i didn't know that so it would be good to confirm.

I read your post but the OP wanted to know if it can be done with IB, and it's probably a good solution for him. I wouldn't trust yahoo real time for reliability anyway, plus you get the bid and ask with IB (don't know about yahoo, assume not), plus if you need 1000 quotes in a second it's...

You just did 100 per second or more. I never even wanted to try that because the data feed itself would not be reliable. The most i tried is 5 per second. Also, the IB docs don't say there is a time limit, but there you found it - it's 100 per second apparently. Good job. Now try it at a lower...

Right. You can get the bid/ask and last, and i'm pretty sure that the tickSize will give you daily volume, but i don't use it. For OHLC you have to download historical bars, and they have request limits (60 per 10 minutes or so). If anybody knows how to pull today's OHLC from IB without using...

Eyez is right, it's possible. If you set the tick request snapshot value to true (1) then you can have as many tickers as you want. It just replies with the bid/ask/last/etc values and closes the ticker. Also, you can have more non-snapshot tickers if you pay a little $ and set it up in account...

Yesterday i would have thought that HFTs saw my order before the exchange, but here's what happened. Stock had bid 17.16 and ask 17.22. I sell limit at 17.21 to post the best ask and get filled immediately, IB charges me as a market order. I'm happy i got filled at a good price but not for...

Hello, I am a Market Guru and thank you for inviting me. On my recent trip to India I had a brilliant enlightenment. The following numbers were revealed to me to be significant: 0.6180 0.3820 0.1180 0.0486 0.0180 3.14 and last but not least: Infinity, extremly important number...

1245 is referring to intra-day market making. I doubt you meant to do this, meaning do arbitrage on all 500 stocks of the SP, because that's not feasable for many other reasons for a retail trader, not just the HFTs. If your holding periods are 15+ days, then consider ETF vs ETF arbitrage...

I checked manually all my positions and didn't find any of the stocks in that list. The small caps I have a position in are Municipal Bond Funds. Should those even be in there? It's vague, I have no idea what to think or how to verify.

I'm with IB for several years and this was the first time I got this notification. Strange? You received it before this, say in the last 2 years?

Yes this sucks. Maybe they got a new spate of retail newbs who went for small-caps and then they lost their customers along with their capitals? I am holding 2 stocks with Mkt Cap less than $250m but they don't appear on that list they posted. I wouldn't be surprised if my margin went up on...

If you want to make C become D and then move all data from D to C, what is the point of all this? What's wrong with setting the D drive (your current disk) as the boot, and move all data except the OS to C drive and use it as such? I really don't see the purpose of the whole exercise. Is...