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If you have genuine interest to trade more than $20m per clip then we should be able to accommodate you. Please pm with your contact details.

This thread seems to have recently been takenover by the API crowd. There is an ongoing discussion on our own bulletin boards in the TWS API forum, where one of our developers has actually invited clients to suggest API improvements. The thread title is "What new API features do you want?"...

We've always had this. When you are on the Trouble Ticket page, click on Preferences in the top right corner. You can have a notification sent to you via e-mail, TWS or SMS.

Yes, that should do it.

I think you may have misunderstood. Please see the attached for the pop-up which I believe you are referring to.

Configure>>>Feature Selector

We're at 23 1/2 hours a day. The hours are 1730-1700 EST.

Yes, IB supports OCO/OCA for all products. Orders will be on our server so, once placed, will work even if you are not connected.

IB can give you stops, stop-limits, iceberg, market, market-to-limit, conditional, trailing stop, MIT, LIT.... and maybe a few others that I missed. All of these are server based - not client based.

????????? This was the question that I replied to: "OK, then I have several specific questions. Let's say I leave a stop order and it doesnt get filled although the market was trading at that level. Who do I call? Let's say I get taken out on a margin call, but I believe this should have...

You'd call your broker in both cases... the same as if it happened on a stock or futures exchange

That's not completely correct. If you trade through an FX broker with an ECN type model, you do not have to be a price-taker. A retail client can post their own prices and effectively make markets. Your counterparty will also not always be a dealer. With an ECN type model, answering "who...

It looks like you have switched off some of the TWS features. Go to Configure >> Feature Selector. You need Real-time Activity Monitoring selected in order to be able to get the P&L columns.

zftrader, I assume that you aware of how stops are triggered with IDEAL-Pro? Stops are triggered using the bid/ask price, so by definition you will likely receive a fill a "spread" away from the stop price. You should take this into account when you are trading. Lets look an example...

It hasn't been forgotten, but I can't promise a date - hopefully early next year. In the last few months, other items have had a higher priority due to demand/programming time etc. As you have observed we've launched quite a few new products and made a large number of improvements to the TWS...

I'll remind you of that sooner than you think!! :D

Trading is not available at the moment, but could be as soon as next week. Look out for an IB announcement. :)

We'll be launching a paper-trading platform any day now, which will be accessible via the Account Management page. The demo will have the same live data and trading permissions as your account - thus, you will need to have an open and funded account.

Market date pro/non-pro fees are dependent on the status of the Advisor - not the seperately managed accounts traded by the advisor.