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Don, While I can understand that they are improving the market, it is generally at the expense of the general public, as they sometimes just turn around and dump on you and immediately move the market against you. Basically the general public never sees the bid so does not know the true...

Aren't there supposed to be regulations against these specialists pennying people to death. Several times today I got pennied and was unable to get my trades through on IBM. Also in some other issues by bids were not being displayed, although they were .05 better than the current bid. The...

I have already passed these suggestions on to them long ago, however they are not on their priority list.

Kymar, Your point on trying to keep a particular chart/quote/whatever always available on screen hits home with me. I have been using TS since 1995 now and the only way to do it is as you mentioned, put it in every workspace. On a different note, I do not use TS for brokerage services but...

Doesn't 4:1 margin for overnight violate the Fed margin limits of 2:1

Cybertrader has a full API for both data and brokerage. Support availabel for C++, VB and Delphi. Check out the support group on Yahoo at http://groups.yahoo.com/group/CyBerAPI_Development Echo

I too have been struggling with this recently. A major issue is that in taking many small positions you would need a broker such as IB where commisions are insignificant, otherwise most of your profits will go back to your broker. Another point is that while you would have mitigated individual...

vhehn, Excellent explanation. Thanks

lescor, point understood about participating with the specialist. It also seems to me that part of the success of the strategy relies on other market traders (arbs, index traders, etc) who will look to profit on trading the stock back to its fair value (or maybe I am misunderstanding this).

vhehn, Actually I think that you have misundestood my point. I understand perfectly well how the OO strategy works on the NYSE, what I am merely asking is that, given the more transparent visibility of NASDAQ pre-open prices, can the strategy be extended to the NASDAQ in some way. Or stated...

Maybe this has been adressed already, but I don't remember reading it on any of the two threads on this topic ( I went through the first one on the weekend). The opening strategies discussed here seem great and apparently work fine on NYSE issues, but why not try them on NASDAQ as well. On...

Mike, Do you know if this application is accessible to TNO-MB clients. The documents say that scripting is required, is this a TAL option or a broker specific option. Echo

This is a well known problem and is actually documented by IB in their FAQs. I have been through this problem and replacing the card for a 3COM solves the problem every time. As a previous poster said, you have to choose between TWS and Linksys. I believe that there was also another brand...

The Cyber API also includes a Delphi version, which I use. Basically the API talks to their X2 software. Check the Yahoo user group, http://groups.yahoo.com/group/CyBerAPI_Development for more information.

Since no one else has asked the question, I will. P2, how are you going to get rid of those 77K THV shares. The stock trades at 1.10 with an average 30 day volume of 15K/day with an average range of 0.06. Only 500 shares traded on Friday. It would seem to me that you could not possibly...

WOW! Such deep insights into the trading game. I must say that I agree with most of the comments made on this thread so far. The fact that trading is so boring has been my #1 downfall during my 7+ year stint at this endeavor. I find that I lose more money hunting around during the day for...

I believe that from a tax point of view you will be limited to the type of company you create. Non resident taxpayers are restricted from S-Corps and I believe partially for C-Corps. You should be able to form a LLC without any tax implications. I am not a tax professional whatsoever, but...

Also you should check the online manual onthe IB website under the trading systems link. They have documentation on the ActiveX interface.

T4life, I had the same problem using a Linksys NIC. The system would crash when using the TWS software, either standalone or web based. I replaced it with the 3COM NIC recommended by IB and never had a problem after that. Very weird problem and I was never able to get an explanation of why...

gwb, I also submitted the request via their website and got no response. I finally called their API support and spoke with Sergio. He immediately emailed me the relevant agreements that must be signed in order to receive the API material. As soon as I've reviewed them, I'm supposed to fax...