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    Missing money at IB

    shneed, Our records reflect that on July 27, 2005 we sent you a notification by e-mail (to the e-mail address you have been using) and by first class mail (to your home address) regarding the activity you raised in this forum. For reasons of confidentiality, we will not go into further...
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    Missing money at IB

    Madison, tomcole: Your most recent posts highlight one of the points I tried to make. Namely, that our presence here is taken by some as means to provide a customer support. That is not what we are here to do. Just think about it; I don't know who you are, what your account number is, or...
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    Missing money at IB

    Notice that I was not responding to the initiator of the thread (or his initial post) but to a comment someone else made. There are indisputable benefits of being here; to both sides. But since we ARE running a business, the benefits have to exceed the expended energy and costs (including the...
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    IB might want to add TrackECN

    Followup: It is still under the consideration, but because of its low volume TrackECN will unlikely add significant value to the Smart routing. TrackECN only trades 0.5-1MM shares a day, whereas e.g. BTRADE's volume is 40-50MM and INET's more than 500MM a day.
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    Missing money at IB

    Thank you very much. We also feel that our participation, whether active (through posting) or passive (through reading) has been mutually beneficial. However, the forum dynamics, e.g.: - the nature or intent of some posts or posters - the expectation that IB's participation here replaces...
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    Missing money at IB

    Maybe a good short term "strategy", but unlikely to work in the long run. For one, posters like that get quickly ignored by us and over time by the forum itself. More importantly, because of this (threads and posts intended to exercise pressure), we've been considering scaling back our...
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    Missing money at IB

    def, check your PM please
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    IB Suggestions & Improvements

    You will have to open a (to you dedicated "paper" account). When all is done, you will be able to "copy" permissions, positions, settings from your real account. We will not let you paper-trade from your real-account. The benefit of using our paper-trading (vs a third party plugin to the...
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    IB Suggestions & Improvements

    Already in the works: paper trading against real-live mkt-data.
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    IB's TWS new drop down windows

    In the next release you'll be able to disable it.
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    Problems Upgrading to TWS 851

    The "Portfolio" page is a special page. It has symbols for each position in your portfolio.
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    IB Suggestions & Improvements

    What does it mean cash them out instead? Please explain what should happen and at what time with options that are: a) in the money b) at the strike very close to the projected settlement price (i.e. they still have some time value left) Thanks.
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    IB Suggestions & Improvements

    Please contact the helpdesk. I am not an expert on credit management. (The issue may have to do with prevention of free-riding in case your IRA account is a cash account).
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    IB Suggestions & Improvements

    It is in the works (at somewhat lower priority).
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    IB Suggestions & Improvements

    It is available and accessible from the chart-window.
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    IB Suggestions & Improvements

    We ARE offering the IBgateway. It provides you with FIX connection for order routing and API connection for market data. Please consult our website for details.
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    IB might want to add TrackECN

    We will consider track-ecn.
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    IB Suggestions & Improvements

    Please PM DAV w/ details how you would want it to work. Thanks.
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    IB Suggestions & Improvements

    The restart is at midnight Eastern time.
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    IB Suggestions & Improvements

    what is wrong with it?
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