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Try Datek's support and you'll be more than happy with IB support for the rest of your life. :D No, seriously, at IB it very much depends on who is answering you. That's because they work with actually existing people. With Datek however you get the impression that you are directly connected...

The other day I made myself real angry about Datek charging an inactivity fee of 15$ p/q. And now IB is going to do the same thing. The only difference is that it is twice that much! And IB already holds $350-400 worth non paid interest. That's $30 p/m at least. So we're already paying a...

I preferred the old home page, giving the hot topics at a glance, I think it takes more time now to find sometething back. But I guess I'll get used to this new design. Great pity the Hardware section (outside the Forums) has been removed. I also miss the 'Rate your broker' section, but I...

It was top quality info. Great pity it is gone now. :(

It's a good thing to read that experienced traders switch to swingtrading, right at the time that I had decided too that that might be the way to go for me. Have been papertrading the whole week (not on paper but in QT actually, which is perfect for that), I seem to have been doing...

US centric, oh yea, plenty examples: 5-digit zip code boxes, phone number boxes that never will allow international numbers, even if the site/service is not U.S. restricted. As for brokers, I have Scottrader as a free backup quotesource (no account needed), they don't take international...

I agree. You gotta admit the guy can be very funny!

jaan, Indeed, 9 days is not exceptionally long over the Big Pond, but still, they do have a problem with withdrawing funds as well as a communication problem. When you select their FundsNow service, you choose "outside USA", and the order is accepted, and the amount is debited immediately...

What is this thing about popcorn and Coke? There is a slight mistake here. This is not the cinema......this is HOLLYWOOD!! I've never seen so much ego-hyping answered by butt kissing concentrated on such a few pages in my entire life! Oh boy...we are so kind to each other in this...

Found the Knowledge Base article (although it does not exactly match the problem): http://support.microsoft.com/support/kb/articles/q253/9/12.asp?id=Q253912&sd=&fr=&ln= . Haven't worked it out yet but I did get the latest Windows Updates. So far everything has been working fine now. Knock on...

In addition it would be handy to be able to see in the order screen what orders have been combined as OCA. Could be the OCA name ("group" actually) visible in one of the fields. This could be the status field, or one of the beige fields on the left which are empty for order lines anyway. Or a...

I am absolutely stunned by what I read here about closing accounts and getting funds from Datek. They are a pretty smoothly operating service untill it comes to getting your money back. It's ridiculous. So they want to keep you as a customer so that they can take $15 every quarter untill...

I would like to be able to enter OCA orders without the order ticket. It could be something like: Ctrl + leftclick to select the orders you want to combine. Then right click on one of them for the option "OCA" and click. Done. There would be no need to enter a name for the OCA; TWS can just give...

agent, Here in Europe I have several dormant accounts, both banks and brokers, I didn't count, but it could be 10 or so. Never have I been charged a single penny or was I asked to decide whether I wanted to use the account or else close it. In fact you get the impression they're happy to wait...

I left some cash at Datek as well. I'm really mad at them for charging me a $15 inactivity fee! I have to pay for not making use of their services! I wasn't even allowed to use their Streamer as I didn't have $500 there. And now they say the inactivity fee is to provide all their customers with...

Hey guys, That's remarkable, I just had the same problem again with exactly that same web page (http://www.prophetfinance.com/charts/pc.asp). But my RAM manager said I had still 273 MB free RAM (I had just checked). Strange... The problem may be that I already had a Java chart open from...

ajax, Cancels work usually within 1-5 seconds. Which is still a bit longer than the amazing 0.2-0.3 secs that an order can get filled, but it's fast enough to get out safely in most cases. I've heard stories of extremely long periods for cancellations, but that was long ago. IB keeps...

Thanks guys. It's great to have so much expertise on this board. Indeed I was considering W2K, so here's another reason to do it. Btw my comp should be able to handle this amount of RAM, though it's the absolute max. It's way more than I need of course but well, it's so cheap these days...

Hi. A few weeks ago, I upgraded my RAM from 1x128 to 3x256 MB. Indeed it does make things run smoother, but I already twice got a problem with Norton AniVirus. With only a few browser windows open and a Java application, (and on a freshly reinstalled W98SE) I hear the display click, get...

I still have W98SE. Am considering W2K. Especially Quotetracker crashes easily when doing anything unusual, like closing a lot of charts at a time. My question: what is best (from the point of view of stability): buy an upgrade from W98 to W2K or buy it complete?