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well, i live here, but nowhere near freaking Portland, can guarantee that! :D so as long as the asian engr. is cheaper, then the absolutely -horrific- tax-burden is fine, eh? and apparently it hasn't occurred to you that income-tax isn't the only tax on people, or society. everything...

actually, the currency that a commodity is priced in -can- have a large impact. a perfect recent example is the crash in Indonesia's rupiah; due to their crossing from an exporter of oil to a net-importer....coupled to the 3:1 subsidies they provided to citizens on refined products. it set...

gawd....that would be SWEET, Babak. :cool:

have you looked at good ol' Stockcharts scanner? I think it would handle the example you gave; and if you're using/paying-for stockcharts anyway.... On the other hand, I have found it near impossible to use for things like finding "dryup volume" a la Hershey, etc.. also, I do not...

thanks Steve....I'll invest the time in some study of the 'manual' then. :) by the way, where are the PREM's ?? (premium over cash, for index-futures) I think they've been requested for several months; and are readily available from several data-sources. Shouldn't be awfully difficult...

there was a good suggestion a few posts above regarding the avoidance of wasting screen space. I just wanted to "second" that to IB. I realize that the programmers are likely working on nice 21" monitors at 1600x1200, and on T3 lines too....but many of us trade on -laptops-....and...

I'd be grateful if you could supply the location of detailed instructions for transferring the prior tws-configuration, and especially, page-setup; to the new 8.51. I have a -distinct- 851 installation in its own directory, with its own icon etc.. I need to know how to tell 851 where the...

thanks Jim.....thought I was losing it or something.... :p I did look through recent threads, and read the Catoosa thread, before I started my new one. In looking through those threads, I have not yet found an answer to the unasked for auto-deletion and auto-reordering of data-lines.

huh.... thanks for that info Jim. That's really too bad....forcing the use of that particularly slow and cumbersome website instead of email. For those of us trading from remote sites, i.e. on rural modems, that website is downright -painful- to use. thanks again for the info....hope...

Last friday, I had to download 851 due to IB cutting off server support for prior versions. I think I was using 8.46 or 8.3x before. Whatever it was, it was damn stable, and did all I needed it to do. I did a fresh seperate install of 8.51, and it appeared to go fine. However, IB...

as far as I can tell, neither of the above two URL's is related to the problems originally starting this thread. :confused:

also, is there a way to implement this in IB TWS ?? i.e., use stock-price to trigger sale/purchase of option. also, what about the case of unrelated issues? i.e., using price of stock or index A to trigger transaction in option of stock B ? in TWS... thanks! :cool:

no, I suppose he'd be a happy camper in that case Quah... :D Well, as has been said, the only safe way is to use that TWS window on every unsellable (OTM) position on Friday afternoon. I'm sorry for the man's trouble, but I'm very glad this subject ended up posted here.

I think "may", in the legal sense, would be construed as whether or not they were going to "immediately liquidate". I don't think it would be construed as "may do it immediately, but may wait a few days instead". :p If I were a securities-attorney, instead of just playing one on ET :D ...

Quah; agreed, that's the only smart way to handle it. in re; that IB agreement... (2) upon exercise may immediately liquidate the underlying security position which results from the exercise of the option contract and Customer shall be liable for resulting losses and costs. One...

sorry Quah...perhaps I didn't phrase my thoughts/questions clearly. Reading his original post, I don't think he -could- have sold them. That's what I'm getting at. And they were NOT in the money at the close. At the close, they were out of the money, and -nobody was bidding anything-...

whoa whoa.... sorry....I'm missing something again...bear with me here.... HOW could he have "closed" out worthless options with a nil bid at opex? Are you saying that placing a market sell order at 3:59 Friday is enough to GUARANTEE you won't be assigned?? Otherwise, I know of no...

:D :D :D

the more I think about it, the more I'm wondering what happened on -Saturday-. how did the 800 get into his account ? It seems the option must have exercised AND the stock sold by IB, in order to net ANY cash into his account. So if it was technically liquidated Saturday in order to...

vehn, thanks for the post. that makes some sense....-some- sense... :D I was under the impression that the default was to net for -cash-....and in fact, it sounds like that's what happened -first-. I.e., they put the net cash of 800 into his acct saturday. but from what you describe...