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Over a month later, I have news on this issue. Due to other reasons, I finally resolved to update my customized twsdde.xls from the version I used years ago to the latest version, which dates to Fall 2012. It took me about 2 days of work. At the end, I found out that the "SIU3" method...

Awesome IB, and awesome chat employee. Thanks to him, I fixed all problems. It was all because of the new mini silver contract, as I had thought. Cfr. attachment below. There were actually two solutions even, that he suggested in the chat. The first solution (to keep the big silver contract...

Some more important information for those trying to help me solve this problem. On both "Market Data" and "Historical Data", here's the errors I get after making these requests (with the following settings): Symbol Type Expiry Exchange Currency SI FUT 201309 NYMEX USD SIU3 FUT 201309...

Yes, great point and advice: https://www.sierrachart.com/SupportBoard.php?ThreadID=2085 ...even though for me it still doesn't work. But I now feel much closer to finding out the answer. In fact, I did have the same idea, and titled accordingly this thread, as I wondered whether their...

I had to resize the attachment. Here it is again.

Neither the tickers page nor the history page work any longer for my Silver requests. It's been like this for all last week. Cfr. attachment.

Thank you again. Great link and great news, too. Given that I will need precisely that 10k of extra margin only two or three times per week, and only on an intraday basis, all I have to fear is getting charged about 50 euros per year (52 weeks in a year, and getting charged fifty cents twice...

Great, thanks for the detailed information and the further details. Now the next question in my mind is how heavy is that interest charged. But, in case no one knows, I'll find out soon enough on my IB statements.

This is really bad news. But wait, I thought this would matter only if you had a negative balance in dollars. But what if you have 10k dollars, and yet need 30k dollars of margin for your CME futures, and you have part of that margin in other currencies?

Bingo! Problem solved:

Bingo! Problem solved:

Adding second of two files that might help show the problem. Here it says fx cash can be found and traded on the account window (real fx), but non-base currency can only be eliminated, and not increased. So this doesn't solve my problem.

Adding one of two files that might help show the problem.

Thank you for your help. I tried IB forex and I cannot set up any symbols on it. Then I, more simply, tried to insert USD.GBP on TWS (regular rows) and it didn't let me. It only let me insert GBP.USD, at which point I bought 1k, but it doesn't look like "cash", but as "1k". I did manage to...

Does anyone know how to manage IB's account currency so to diversify among different currencies? It might have something to do with IdealPro, but I don't remember exactly how to do it. So far I've only managed to have some euros, but they're from my GBL (German Bund) trades. I would like to...

Does anyone know how to manage IB's account currency so to diversify among different currencies? It might have something to do with IdealPro, but I don't remember exactly how to do it. So far I've only managed to have some euros, but they're from my GBL (German Bund) trades. I would like to...

Yes, I am aware of that and thank you for the assistance. I've written a private message back, saying that for now I will forgo both the security token and SSL (which I had enabled after opting out of the security token), in order to avoid technical problems (they do happen). And then, if my...

Thank you for your prompt reply. One way or another I've always solved all problems, but I want to keep track of them on this thread. Not that I am exaggerating them in any way, but I am indeed venting out some frustration.

Ok, now I am having problems with SSL (cfr. attachment): it causes my TWS to stop being updated and it disrupts my automated trading. And here, as usual, they say that IB suggested to simply disable the SSL: http://www.elitetrader.com/vb/showthread.php?threadid=218598 So let me get this...

You're welcome. Thanks for letting us know you appreciated the thread.