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Book Trader Change Book Trader(BT) to have separate defaults for the high and low side bracket orders (currently set thru Configuration screen for all bracket orders). At this time the "bracket" can only be preset equidistant from the execution price. An ability to preset the high and low...

If Book Trader(BT) could be changed to have separate defaults for the high and low side bracket orders (currently set thru Configuration screen for all bracket orders) part of the problem could be solved. At this time the "bracket" is equidistant from the execution price. An ability to set the...

My log-in worked just now at 11 PM EST. Remember that they shutdown for Saturday thru noon Sunday. You can still try to log in as "edemo". password "demouser" over the weekend. You might check the version of Java you are running. IB suggests upgrading to 1.5 but people have reported 1.4...

Works fine for me. Just logged in. I'm in the US.

You cannot short stocks without margin and the ability to borrow if the position goes against you. The rules for stock equity IRA's preclude borrowing (margin in the true sense). IB recently created margin accounts without the ability to borrow. This seems to be an endrun around the 3 day...

Acrary is back and in a post today (9/26/05) he mentions using NN's for setting up strategies. Here is an extract: If you hit at least 85% correctly then you can do one of two things. If you're a discretionary trader, setup the NN and preprocess the inputs every day and use the net to...

Two things: Did you select the 100 stocks last year or this year and then run the test? That is, did you use something like the IBD top 100 from Sept 2004 or did you use a recent list of "good" stocks? Survivorship or unconscious selection bias can play a big role in your numbers. By...

I think there was a recent thread on this. I don't do FOREX but if I remember correctly the FOREX interest rates are based on the currency pairs you are trading which is then converted to $US or whatever your account's base currency is. $5K. The interest that the first $10K earns is used...

I partially agree. Your activity in the account is contact. IB's $10 data fee or a bank's inactivity fee or the paying of interest do not count as contact with the customer. Jack

How long was it dormant? Some states require that money in banks, etc., be turned over to them if there has been no contact with the client for X months/years. IB has a "you are a big boy" philosophy and is not heavily into hand-holding and perhaps there is no legal requirement to let you...

d9d: I think you'll have to create your special page by hand. If you have a bunch of stocks if you enter the symbol and then hit the "Enter" key 3 times it will pull up the stock with a SMART default. Your other entires will require more pointing and clicking but the "enter" technique might...

tampa: Congratulations on your success! An important caution - I hope that in reviewing the 39 gigabyte file I sent you last week, you noted that the phase of the moon seems to play an important role in the efficacy of the signals produced by our somewhat similar systems. Consider that...

Is that the Demo Acct, a real account, or both?

A minor correction was made to add acrary's remarks to the bottom. Jack [LATER EDIT by Magna:] At JackR's request his earlier post/spreadsheet was removed.

Send a PM to "def".

There was a recent thread on this. The poster had some options which expired in the money and were exercised by IB. He had insufficient funds to cover the purchase. They sold the stock they purchased for him on Monday. The difference between the option exercise price ($300 a share) and the...

Here is more than you want to know --- SDRAM was first used in 1996 with support for a PC processor bus (also called front-side bus or FSB) speed of 66 MHz, but by 1998 it had advanced to support the 100-MHz FSB. SDRAM certified to run at 100 MHz was dubbed PC100 SDRAM, and it is available in...

To give you some background - TASC only surveys subscribers for their Readers Choice polls. Thus, the poll reflects a very specialized group of people. TradeStation(TS) has been around for a long time. Other package less so. Therefore, there are more TS users and more TASC voters for TS...

You decide. I've attached a quick and dirty Excel comparison from May 1985 to date. Jack

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