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Achilles: You say you trade "off the chart" using tick data. If by this you mean manually, and that is my supposition, I'd say virtually no effect. But it really depends on what you are looking for before entering\exiting a trade. I haven't looked into this in a few years, but I believe...

Achilles: It's not tick-by-tick, it's sampled between 3 and 10 times per second. So in a very fast moving market you may miss some moves. But what you see is the current bid/ask at the time of transmission. Sampled data has the advantage of being less expensive to provide as IB needs...

Blue: Because deep book info is very resource-intensive. Instead of a single level (quote\sale) showing bid/ask and size, there are 10 additional bid sizes and 10 additional ask sizes displayed. I've never really stopped to analyze it, but the sizes in the bids/asks away from the current...

Sam: Three things: The Futures exchanges are regulated by the CFTC, not the SEC\FINRA. Two different regulatory bodies. The Day Trader rule was put into effect during the "dot com" bubble to protect against truly ridiculous price swings. Futures were not traded by the public to any...

dst: One thing I've always found bothersome - As far as I can determine there is no way to determine precisely what level of TWS is available for download. The "alpha" level 9451(?) never shows on IB's web site, just the decimal level. The only place the "alpha" level shows up is on the...

Bob: I've been a commission-paying IB guinea pig for over a decade. Unfortunately, I can no longer test the new releases with "real data" on a separate machine in my paper trading account and don't like to run real and paper on the same machine. Therefore, I delay switching to the "upgrade"...

FYI: This was posted in a long-established Yahoo group this morning: Just heads-up for TWS users. TWS 945.1 is buggy, especially web version - don't use it. Use standalone TWS 944.3 or earlier. The poster is an extremely sharp coder and the first post of this type I've ever seen from him in...

I think IB has two $10 fees they waive for $30/month in commissions. Account (Inactivity fee) and the US Market Data package fee. I'm not sure they waive both for an inactive >=$100K balance. Jack

It does not matter what time of day you trade, nor really for how long - the IRS says that: Special rules apply if you are a trader in securities, in the business of buying and selling securities for your own account. This is considered a business, even though you do not maintain an inventory...

Whether you are making money or losing money, a Trader in Securities/Futures, as recognized by the IRS, can take many deductions that are either disallowed or essentially disallowed to traders classified as investors. Jack

Adding Multicharts with trading capability raises cost by $39 a month, a lot more than $0. So Barron's probably does not consider any add-ons (like MC or Button Trader, etc.) in their calculations. Jack

JMiles301: You might take a look at this: http://techverse.net/how-to-troubleshoot-google-chromes-high-cpu-memory-usage/ Jack

Kafe: If you are going to trade in an automated manner there is a very good chance that you will become a "pattern day trader"(PDT). In order to trade as a PDT you must have (and maintain) an account balance at or above $25,000. For all practical purposes this means you'll need about...

Mac: I'm not really into these things but I can add a little to what you are seeking. CL Futures are traded electronically and in "the pit". As you probably know the pit is not open nearly as long as are the electronic venues. The Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) is the federal...

TICK-NYSE Problem? Not sure if it's my machine or TWS --- Using IB's charts (2 Hour - 1 minute) I can see the TICK-NYSE going above and below 0, that is it plots positive and negative numbers However, when I look at the TICK-NYSE line in my TWS quote main screen, the LAST goes blank...

1) Not exactly, but the thread has morphed into an informal QT support thread (TD Ameritrade has dropped support of QT). 2) Yes. 3) Real Soon Now (a public beta will be available even sooner) 4) Medved Trader - See https://plus.google.com/+Medvedtrader1/posts 5) Jerry has not mentioned...

This is from an older thread. The guy mentioned, Rob Hoffman, ran a trading room in which he traded live. He taught the use of the maringale technique and provided his students with a spreadsheet to figure out how many contracts to add. He is no longer with that room but started a room of his...

Download and install the patch from here: http://www65.zippyshare.com/v/77716919/file.html Once installed QT (Help) will show 3.9.8a

TonkaDad: First download and install: http://www.quotetracker.com/download/qtsetup.exe Then download and install from here: http://www65.zippyshare.com/v/77716919/file.html Then read the QT Help, setup and test drive away. Jack

For anyone using BookTrader - I'm currently running TWS 936.9. I upgraded to 939.3 this weekend and tried it out on the Demo account. I was unable to drag an order from an entry (buy or sell) once I had clicked it onto a specific price. I had to cancel and re-enter. I've reverted to...