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Did you ever find a solution for the error message? I'm getting a similar error message every day after the 24 hour auto restart fails for TWS: "login failed - soft token = 0 received instead of expected permanent for ndc1.ibllc.com:4001" I've opened a ticket with Interactive Brokers for...

I'm looking for a good source of paid daily trading signals for stocks. I generate my own trading signals, but I'd like to add to that for diversity. Does anyone have any recommendations?

Is there a way to limit the dollar amount or number of trades in an account for a single day? I have a trading system where I send 40 limit buy orders each morning. Typically only a few of the buy orders get hit each day. However, if more than 10 buy orders get triggered, I'd like to stop any...

I did figure out one way to work around it. When I create the basket order in Excel, for any sell orders, I just set 0 for the quantity. When I upload the basket, IB gives an error message saying that "size must be specified" but I select OK anyways. Then I click on the quantity for each symbol...

I like to create a csv file every day to upload to IB with the Basket Trader. For most cases, for a sell order, I would just like to sell all the shares for a particular symbol, yet it would seem that I have to enter a specific quantity of shares. Is there anyway around this? Is there a way that...

I think I've figured out how I can make my 40 limit orders of $10,000 each on a $100,000 non margin account. It looks like Limit if Touched or LIT orders will work on Interactive Brokers. I tried issuing more LIT orders than the funds available in my account and it seems to work.

The BasketTrader will read a csv file and execute trades from it. It's a lot more accurate and convenient than entering the trades manually.

Yes, I'm sure that's possible to make software to detect your open trades, but it would be a lot easier if you could simply block short selling.

I'm generating buy and sell signals for a number of stocks each day with Amibroker that get saved into a csv file which then gets converted into another csv file that is compatible with the BasketTrader

I've just started to trade successfully with IB's BasketTrader. My worry is that my software will calculate a sell for a stock that I don't hold because I missed the buy. Then that sell order can get to my BasketTrader. Is there a field that I can fill in or a setting that I can make for...

Sorry, I got busy with other things and didn't pay attention to this thread. I didn't think it would generate so many responses. Thank you so much to everyone! I did try this with IB, to place more than 10 conditional orders that would only send limit orders if the price came close such as what...

Incorporated trading might be nice, but in my situation, I would prefer to avoid all the extra work and record keeping and just keep all my trading as capital gains. I'd just like to know how far I can stretch it for my trading to stay as capital gains. Most accountants are probably going to...

Thank you so much for your response @mhparker. I just realized now that you're the creator of RealTest. I wish you great success with it. I would certainly love to try using RealTest and let you know what I think of it. I think Amibroker is a great program. The most important thing I'd like to...

Can I assume that your post is in response to my post just above where I say that the money to be made is in selling options, not buying them? I have to admit that I don't know a lot about market making and I'm not looking for new trading ideas, but it certainly is interesting. I recently...

Here on the paper trader, IB accepts the first limit order for 100 shares but rejects the second limit order when I try exceeding the margin available.

I trade margin, RRSP and TFSA accounts. I did actually test with a non margin account if I would be able to send out more limit orders than the funds available and it wasn't allowed. I also tried the same thing with IB conditional orders. Say for example, the stock opened at $10 and I wanted to...

That's very interesting, thank you so much for your posts. Would you say that there are important things that you can do with Amibroker that you can't do with RealTest? Could you run a two parameter optimization with RealTest and have the results display in 3D? Some of the optimizations that I...

If I was a stock broker and I could sell options, that would be my most profitable strategy, to sell options and to make the profit on the spreads that are much higher than most other equities.

I have an exercise room right beside my trading office at home. I installed a 30 minute timer on the light switch for my office that signals me to do a few minutes of exercise before I sit for another 30 minutes. I find that I can work at my computer for hours and hours this way. Otherwise, if I...

Interactive Brokers and I assume any other broker, won't allow you to send out more orders than you have funds available. For example, if you were trading with an account of $120,000 and you want to run 12 positions at $10,000 each, IB would stop you after you sent out the 12th limit order at...