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Thanks for the explanation. I also have a thinkorswim account. Over there it's clear that you have two separate accounts. Each has it's own funds in it, even though you can easily trade both off the same platform as if it was one account. But the money is in two accounts and can't be moved...

With IB, one account trades stocks, futures, and forex. How do they sweep your funds from a futures account to a securities account if it's all in the same account????

Sorry to bring this old thread back. I've been a subscriber to TradeTheNews.com for the past 2 years. I pay $350/month for this service. Today, all of a sudden, my account got cut off and I got an e-mail saying they need my LinkedIn account in order to continue my subscription!!!! Are you...

Shagi, thanks for the recommendation. As much as I love the tablet and touch screen functionality, I don't like the resolution. Currently I have an older Sony TZ series laptop that has the same resolution and I always wished it was higher. But that's a really nice laptop. And it better be at...

I currently trade with my home built desktop with 4 monitors. I built it myself and it's very powerful with quad extreme processor. My parents are getting old and I have to visit them often. My laptop and an extra monitor that I keep at my parents just isn't enough as my visits there get...

So, as traders, how can we profit from the crisis in Japan? Per the Gartman letter, we should be shorting the Yen. And keep the short position for a long time. The Japanese government has no choice but to ease monetary policy and print money. They have to in order to stimulate the...

Yup, it's April 14th and I'm posting about taxes. I did my own last year, and dreading this years. And yes, I filed my 3115 a few years ago, so the IRS sees me as a trader and I meet all the guidelines. I have all the numbers together, but just don't feel like spending my weekend putting...

As I posted in my last post, the banking world is going towards authenticating computers, not using some outdated third party device. I just find it cumbersome since I've moved from Tradestation, where they authenticate computers, to IB, where we need a third device. I log in often either...

One of the best books for learning options is "Option Volatility & Pricing" by Sheldon Natenberg. I highly recommend this book. To me and many others, this is the "bible" of options. It'll teach you everything you need to know about options and option strategies. When looking for a broker...

CSFX, thanks for the info. I had no idea I could set-up an access for trading only which does not require this extra authentication key. This definitely seems like the way to go. Sure, I remember that pump and dump scheme years ago, but I'll take my chances. BigFunkey, I'm not worried...

I have two accounts with IB (one IRA and one trading). I had two security devices, one for each account. One was that card with tons of codes, and the other was a key ring device where you press a small button and it displays some numbers. I finally integrated both accounts so now I only use...

How about the paid version? Can you open multiple groups at the same time? Meaning one group on one monitor and another group on a 2nd monitor? From what I can see from my demo, I can only open 2 charts total. I can have one chart in one group and another chart in a 2nd group, and no...

Thank you all for your suggestions. The problem is that I sometimes daytrade on breaking news about some company. So there is no way I can load all companies charts ahead of time. And the wait is just too long with NeoTicker. The same charts come up much faster on IB charts than using the IB...

Scottrade, Tradestation, and IB don't offer imbalance info. Why do some places have it only 10 minutes before the close and others 20 minutes? I know it starts 20 minutes before the close. And places like Trade The News give an overall imbalance info at 15 minutes before the close.

You can also get imbalance info from the Nasdaq Data Store: https://data.nasdaq.com/NOII.aspx However, this only reports imbalances 10 minutes before the close, not 20. Not sure why. It costs $15/month and also includes book viewer (Total View) for Nasdaq stocks. I don't know why most...

I've been playing around with NeoTicker for the past couple of days. It's certainly an interesting piece of software. Not intuitive at all, but if one takes the time, some neat features are discovered. Or, in the worst case, one might actually browse through the manual and go through some...

From what I've seen (and I haven't seen them all), NT is the best you're gonna get for free. And it does provide live streaming quotes when you interface it with IB. But is it a great platform? Heck no! Lots of issues where it just wasn't robust enough for me. I certainly wouldn't pay their...

I applaud NT for making their platform free with your own feed. They pay version is for if you want to place trades from their platform. I tried NT with my IB feed. Every one has their own needs, but I found NT very weak, specially with IB. I never understood why it didn't recognize stock...

I can verify that you can't save individual charts as they've done away with "Layouts". Personally, I use pages. I find it easier to save a whole page with one file rather than having to save each object displayed on the screen. As I've stated before, I would have rather seen "workspaces"...

To me, it seems like a step in the right direction. Let me say I haven't used version 11 in my trading environment yet. I just started playing with it today on my laptop. So far I like it. I'm semi-new to e-signal. I used them many years ago and then left when I opened up an account...