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Hi Would anyone doing extensive backtesting recommend ECC over NECC Ram for better computational accuracy? Further, if backtesting isn't undertaken, would it be more sensible to stay with NECC Ram for better speed and performance in everyday trading tasks (eg, charting), since ECC RAM has...

If anyone has an angle on whether the current surge in S & P futures may be partly related to how the exercise-settlement value (SET) of CBOE S&P 500 index options is determined this morning, your views would be most welcome. http://www.cboe.com/Products/indexopts/spx_spec.aspx

Can you possibly elaborate? Thanks.

piezoe, xflat2186 and Pabst: Care to share your views on Nov S&P option open interests? Thanks.

Thanks, OldTrader, for your clear examples and well-reasoned conclusion.

Thanks, Pa(b)st Prime. Excellent call.

Your comment is terribly interesting. Would you care to elaborate a little? Thanks.

Cutten: Further to Monday's US stockmarket price action, do you still hold the same view? Thanks.

Assume dst meant 877.3. IB should do its customers a small favor and give top priority to the testing/releasing of 877.3. kiwi deserves better...

Update: First, thanks to all those who voted for the IB features poll request. I PMed IBj and IB Salvatore about the matter, and they both provided helpful feedback. IB Salvatore's reply: We are going to create check-boxes to get rid of MTM and FIFO information and let customers retain...

One can only hope that the attention of IB's software development and quality control team leaders can be drawn to jimrockford's "more reliability, less bells and whistles" features poll request (ID# 2185; submitted by: private)...

hoi's response to your IB forum post: http://www.interactivebrokers.com/cgi-bin/discus/board-auth.pl?lm=1189408448&file=/3/43660.html Excerpt: I tested all versions, including 877, and 876 ..and found a huge bug in 876, (which is one of the reasons why 876 is skipped to be released as...

jimrockford: I had the same problem with Firefox too, but managed to vote using IE6 with pop-up blocker disabled and all cookies enabled.

Catoosa: Another web site bug? You may need to contact IB customer support about this. Provided the problem is described in detail to them, they're reasonably helpful. At the risk of stating the obvious, please make sure that browser cookies are enabled for both visited and third-party...

I couldn't create the features poll last week as there was apparently a bug with the web page's function. I contacted IB customer support and their technical people managed to fix the problem. As regards voting, please try disabling your browser's pop-up blocker. This is how I succeeded in...

I've submitted a feature request to retain legacy account statements as an option for all customers ad infinitum, beyond the currently scheduled cut-off date of September 17, 2007. If you like this idea, please vote in favor (and ask your buddies to do likewise). Given the September 17 cut-off...

Apparently, the PDF format statement feature will be implemented before the end of this year.

I've submitted a feature request to retain legacy account statements as an option for all customers ad infinitum, beyond the currently scheduled cut-off date of September 17, 2007. If you like this idea, please vote in favor (and ask your buddies to do likewise). Given the September 17 cut-off...

Would someone from IB care to reply to my query above? Thanks!

Just to clarify, could someone from IB explain whether "financial information" in the quote from ids (referred to in my second post above) includes a customer's username and account number? Thanks!