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I looked through the folders... can you please explain which file you are refering to?

Is it possible to sync IB with Excel, so I can create spreadsheets with real-time information? Any tutorials if this is possible? Thanks

i'll give that a try, but i think that's really stupid. So i before I close all my computers, i have to remember to check that setting and then when i log in, I have to check it again just to be on the safe side. It's ridiculous that you have to remember to do that everytime.

so since I have three computers... you're all suggesting that I save one of the tws.xml files and then completely remove the program from each computer and then reinstall? Should I copy that tws.xml on all computers after that? And then everything will be straight? If I make one change...

I'm not sure if it's just me, but in IB... is the maximum chart view only 1 year? that doesn't seem like much. If i was to use a program like quotetracker, is there anychance I can use it to view charts in IB further back than just 1 year?

Since IB's customer service sucks, I'll just ask the question here and hope someone has the answer... I use 3 computers throughout the day....1 home desktop, 1 home laptop and 1 work desktop.... whenever I save settings on one computer, i have to do the same for each computer.... I...

thanks... now if I just want to close any position out on close... say if i went long on a futures contract which is currently $700 and i also placed a sell limit at say $710. if I add a sell order using GAT at close... if it so happen that the price went high enough to trigger...

Does anyone know if there is a way to simulate a market on close order for futures contracts on Interactive Brokers?

this is what baffles me... say if you are trading and all of a sudden, the price jumped by a huge amount yet you see no trading volume... in order for the market to adjust to a higher price, is there not suppose to be a trail of executed trades to bring the price up or can the price go up...

no offense...but I never claimed to say that I did. Here is why this is a legit question... I always thought of buying and selling stocks just like putting up say an item on ebay. The price only goes up if there is a buyer willing to pay more for it. Well I have interactive brokers...

I hate these people who come on here and tell me what to do. Just because I don't know specifics, it doesn't mean I can't trade. My question was not, should I trade or not. If you can't answer the question, then why waste your time? I bet you're one of those people who come on here and have no...

if it is possible to place an order before the futures market opens... does this mean that one can use this to his advantage....for example, if you knew the market was going to go down that day but you wanted the market to start off at a high price.... can you place a very large buy order...

are you trying to say that it is possible to put an order even when the futures market is closed? which would mean that the opening price also reflects orders that were put in while the market was closed....??

I guess the question is who brings the prices down or up when the futures market isn't even open yet? how can the futures price move if there are no trades while the futures market was closed? does the new opening price correlate to something specific?

I wanted to short asian futures before they went down.... but got in too late since the futures market was closed... all of a sudden, the market opens lower... can someone explain how does price shift lower if the futures market is closed? Am i suppose to put in an order before the market...

sorry that i don't know everything there is to the market....if i did, i wouldn't be here in the first place.

i think i understood Bingoking's straight forward answer a little more. Say if the corn futures price is $20 for the December contract and the $15 for the September contract.... considering that futures prices change constantly, who is to say that I, the farmer, might end up planting more...

Can someone please explain how the futures market actually benefits say for example the corn industry. For example, say I was a farmer and I was able to round up about $10,000 worth of corn.... if I sold or purchased corn futures.... how do I actually benefit from this? Can it save me...

With all the talks of how professionals arbitrage futures and cash price, is it possible to do this within your own online broker? Say I have interactive brokers and I wanted to short the futures and the cash price... Is there a precise way to do this, so that once the prices meet up...you...

I'm interested in trading future indexs from various countries in the asian and european markets. Are there any websites that display intraday global index futures intra charts in real-time or 15-minute delay? I know yahoo displays global indexes data with little delay, but not global index...