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Yes, I got disconnected, and can't log in (around 11 am). The same thing happened to me yesterday, around 4 pm.... IB is quite bad recently, not only the connection issues, but also the quotes, trade executions, customer service... I hope they fix it soon, otherwise they will lose many customers.

May be you could try Better Business Bureau: http://www.bbbonline.org/ http://www.bbb.org/ From their website: The BBB can handle the following complaints involving marketplace activities: Misleading Advertising. Improper Selling Practices. Non-delivery of Goods or Services...

ShoeshineBoy, I had the same problems calling IB on Thursday, March 21. Tried to call them 4 times, got the automatic "thanks for calling IB" message, and then absolutely nothing... I notified their customer service via chat, but it looks like it didn't help...

Axiom, you need to sign a form for the new fee structure: http://www.tradestation.com/pdf/fees_pricingform.pdf

Stevet, I am not completely sure, how IB simulates market orders, but I know from my experience, that a market order can take much longer to execute when their quotes are lagging. From what I remember, I believe the market orders are simulated into limit orders by adding 5 points to best...

Catoosa, it's not so sure that a market order will get it done. Since IB simulates all market orders into limit orders based on the quotes they have, sometimes it can be difficult to get an order executed even with a market order, especially when there is a big difference between IB's quotes...

vannielj, you can also try the built in functions. Examples: SetStopPosition; (or SetStopContract;) SetStopLoss(Amount); SetStopPosition; (or SetStopContract;) SetPercentTrailing(FloorAmnt, Amount); SetStopPosition; (or SetStopContract;) SetDollarTrailing(Amount); For...

Kev, it's not possible to see an Up/Downtick and the other trade conditions that you mention in T&S. You only can see if it's an Up/Down bid in Level II window (green and red arrow). I wrote to their wishlist some time ago that it would be nice to have an Up/Down Bid indicator in T&S...

Kev: 1. you can colorcode t&s: open a T&S window, go to Format/ Window/ Color.... 2. You can't link different windows together. 3. You can't enter commissions as a flat fee. As for the bug, I haven't had that problem.

TradeStation has intraday data for S&P e-mini since mid February 2001. However, what I found, is that historical intraday data from different sources can give you very different results when testing a system. For this reason, I think, it's best to have historical data from the same source that...

I don't trade futures yet, but am getting ready to start soon. I know about the 60/40 tax treatment, but don't you have to pay self employment tax too, which is 15.3%? Thanks.

I had something similar happen to me about 3 weeks ago. I got an overfill for 500 shares. I placed an order to close a short position (1500 shares), and suddenly I was long 500 shares! I knew the order I placed was correct (buy 1500 shares, not 2000 shares), so I called them, and they took care...

Sorry, if this is a little bit off topic, but didn't want to start a new thread for this. I was wondering if you knew what was happening with IB's customer service, and why they don't answer e-mails? I sent two e-mails on Feb. 7 to IB's customer service. Since they didn't reply, I made a...

One more thing, may be you would be interested to know: I did some research last year about slippage that I received with Best: from 10/1/01 to 12/31/01 I did around 150 trades trading Nasdaq stocks (cien, jnpr, sanm, ebay, emlx, pmcs, ctxs, extr), and my avg. slippage + commissions was 0.1%...

Forgot to mention that I trade Nasdaq stocks only, so I don't know about NYSE market orders.

I use market orders all the time with Best, and it works for me. I usually get filled at the price I wanted, sometimes one level below. The only time where the slippage might be significant is sometimes for shorts, which is understandable, when the stock is tanking.

Trade_Cents Commission for 1000 shares is $7.50.

I don't think it's a bug, the problem is that you put everything into the "if time = 1031 ... " loop. Try this: if time=1031 then begin buy this bar on close; end; setstopcontract; setprofittarget(0.10);