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All Brokers (including IB) make a great deal of money outside of commissions. Here are a few ways they do this: 1) They segregate your longs and shorts so that your implied cr/dr rates are significantly worse than they advertise. For example if you typically have many long/short positions...

A special thanks for helping me build and maintain my moat. Keep up the great work!

re MM BS: Exchange rules have always discouraged Customer to customer trading (in the 80's and today). Whether it was non-firm quotes then or PIP (Hidden electronic Markets), payment for order flow, co-location and higher professional customer fees today- it is very difficult to trade against...

I'm Canadian and I've been trading full time since 1990. In my third year of University (1988) I was self teaching myself about options. Closing quotes (bid/ask) from the Canadian Options Market would appear in the Globe and Mail. While others were partying nightly I would go to the library...

I've tried many things and nothing seems to work. What I would I like to do is hire someone who can take a look at the program - test it - duplicate my issue (works on windows 7 - does not on windows 10) and see if there is anything that can be done to fix this without having the source code...

I had a custom RTD server built for me about 13 years ago. The program works well with Windows 7. However I just bought a new system and it doesn't work with Windows 10 (I'm using Excel 2016). I've registered the dll successfully (As the Administrator) and it shows up in the Active...

thanks for sharing Option commissions is an area that I believe will change in the coming years. IB use to be the leaders. Others are now moving the industry to lower fees and they will likely be the winners in the long run.

It's better in the Bahamas

Trade more. Post less TIA

just an update. Moved everything to either RTD or ActiveX (from DDE) and am now using TWS 64 bit. Worked really well last week. thanks for the input

activex is different. I will look to upgrade to activeX. thanks

Jack Rab: I have tired this but I get the Ddedll file is missing or out of date https://ibkr.info/node/2155

I have noticed that my TWS always gets slow at the end of the day. IB told me that I could increase memory usage by doing the following: https://www.interactivebrokers.com/en/software/tws/usersguidebook/priceriskanalytics/custommemory.htm I have increased the memory to 1200 MB and I still...

similar experience. hit or miss. No real pattern but you can't expect that you will be able to lend your shares through IB.

OneChicago: There is almost NO market in many of the hard to borrow names (ie RIOT, OSTK) that you have listed. No market in the futures and no market in the spread market (STARS). I have owned many hard to borrow names and I can get the "lending fee" easier and get a better price by buying...

Options after hours would be nice. Maybe just for an hour. One of the Exchanges will do it someday.

omg - what a RIOT today.....

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-08-17/bofa-goldman-sued-in-securities-lending-market-antitrust-case https://www.reuters.com/article/us-stocklending-lawsuit/u-s-pension-funds-sue-goldman-jpmorgan-others-over-stock-lending-market-idUSKCN1AX2NK

I've been in this business for 28 years. I can assure you that it is possible to make a very good living trading your own account but it is very unlikely you will find someone on ET that will make you rich. If someone has truly found some inefficiency in the market - then they will exploit it...

thanks to all those who have helped build and maintain my moat. much appreciated!