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Yes. From the IB Help File (Order Setup) This option was created as a safety net to prevent you from transmitting a limit order that has a mistyped limit price. If you attempt to transmit a limit order with a price outside of this calculated percent off the market price, you will receive a...

This is from Art's second post in this thread - emphasis added - By assigning them +1/-1 strength/weakness values, however, and combining them with other such indicators, you can often get a whole significantly greater than the sum of the parts. Perhaps it makes more sense now. It is...

It depends on the state you are in if you are under the federal threshold. . Suggest you do a google search for your state. I do not believe IB has any checking mechanism. You screw up, you get fined by your state or the feds. Also, I am clueless about what happens if you have...

Jet: IB's Book Trader does not have that functionality. There are commercial add-ons that can have different strategies for different contracts. Do a search on Book Trader. IB has been working on making improvements. Maybe they will come up with the ability to have different strategies...

What percentage of gaps filled the same day? Do you track opening gaps and closures? Jack

Concur with TIKI. Really not a difficult indicator to construct. Jack

What did IB say? Did they give you a reason? Jack

I use the Java package exclusively. I believe TOS provides more functionality in the downloaded Java package. However, they also offer a web-based package of lesser capability that is HTTP-based and can go thru a firewall. It could be used as a backup. I have used the TOS Java platform...

The first thing you should understand is that Neuroshell will not produce huge returns (at least for me). If you work at it you can get nice returns. I'm happy with between a consistent 10% to 20%. Others may claim more, I don't. It is not an easy product to learn. You must study it and...

They look remarkably similar to IB's futures rates. Indeed, they match the CME e-mini rates $ for $ for non-exchange members. I did not check anytrhing beyond the e-Minis. They have not lowered their equity rates to match IB's. Jack

Neuroshell Trader. In addition to its Neural Network/genetic algorithm capability, Neuroshell Trader can be used as a regular back-testing platform by running it without any optimization. It runs pretty quickly. There are four options: 1) No optimization - just backtesting 2)...

It is done all the time. One restriction you might run into is that an account will not be transferred with any unsettled trades. Thus, even with a margin account you could not transfer until your stock trades settled. This means you'd have to stop trading and on the third day send in the...

Just remember you still pay them for data feeds. It is not completely free. Jack

Mini Russell ER2 Example Bundled is $4.80 R/T. Unbundled is a sliding scale. Includes all fees. Do 500 R/Ts (1000 total contracts) and it's $4.44 R/T. Do 1,000 R/Ts (2000 Total) and it's $4.03. Do 2,500 R/Ts (5000 Total) and it's $3.784. Do 5,000 R/Ts (10K Total) and it's...

As of Nov 1st. All shares are 1/2 cent ($0.005) per share, no matter what quantity. Share price does not matter. There is a minimum commision of $1.00. Therefore, 1 to 200 shares at any price per share = $1.00. Over 200 = number of shares x .005 = commission. Thus, 1000 x .005 = $...

Chewbacca: Are you an IB customer now? IB commission for the above, if entered as a single order, is (will be on 1 Nov) 1000 x .005 = $5.00. That's the way I've been debited on the existing .01 + .005 commission schedule. I often get partial fills from different exchanges/ICNs using...

Take a look at http://www.greencompany.com/EducationCenter/GTTResources.shtml . They also specialize in trader-related info. Jack

IB offers a number of allocation methods, fixed ratio, percent of availability equity, and something else, the name of which I don't recall. Go to the main IB web page. Type in "allocation" in the search function and you will get all the details. Allocation is done at time of trade. You can...

easyrider: Now that you've got the attention of "def" and "Steve_IB" and you've accepted that change is coming to the TWS why not offer specific suggestions for Book Trader? You obviously have much to offer. Jack

jetq: IB seems to be making a lot of changes to TWS. (Despite a hue and cry from the KISS folks) I made a suggestion on a change to the Book Trader over in the "IB Suggestions and Improvements" thread. I noticed that some of the earlier suggestions in that thread are in the Beta version...