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The Deep Discount chart is not quite complete. In general you must also add a "platform fee" and/or "feed fee" to the numbers shown. Some brokers may reduce or eliminate platform and feed fees based on volume/commissions paid. Jack

iTrader: Sorry but I can't help. I do know that TDA stopped supporting QuoteTracker some years ago, that's the reason this thread was started. They want to people to use the platforms they still support. So perhaps it is a policy intended to discourage QT use. You don't mention the...

iTrader: What company? Jack

As you can see in the extract above Surf has decided to end posting here on ET (maybe). So here are the results of his trades as of today's close. It is unfortunate that we will never know the ultimate performance. Open Positions as COB Monday, April 29, 2013 Herbalife (HLF)--...

In trying to track the Surfer Alerts trades I entered a gold trade based on the following entry by Surf: [/b] As stated by Surf, YG is a mini-Gold futures contract. I believe GLD is an ETF. In the posts just above (Wide Tailz 1:06 PM and Surf 1:24 PM) reference is made to closing a GLD...

Updated Portfolio Valuation as of COB 4/26 - Rationale for sizes and prices in previous posts. Surf made no changes he reported for the period 4/22 - 4/26. Current Positions Herbalife (HLF)-- Short.....Used 4/01 (H-L)/2 = $37.25. 1000 shares 4/1 Short 37.25 = $37,250 4/12 Close...

Southall: Thanks. You are correct. That's what I get for preparing a spreadsheet while sipping wine. Here is a corrected report. I'm using the Yahoo GC gold symbol for Friday's closing price. Corrected update to last week's post. It's a bit difficult to track Surf (perhaps impossible)...

Below is an update to last week's post. It's a bit difficult to track Surf (perhaps impossible), but here's what I think he is doing. Because Surf does not define his closing time for futures I'm using Yahoo Finance closing prices to avoid confusion as to time and source. 4/15 Close 4/3...

Surf: I trade CL and noticed this thread. Researching for my post took a bunch of work. I see the closed thread you referenced has over 500 pages. I'm not going to research that one as it looks like significantly more work. I'll just stick with the trades you posted/will post here. I'm...

Reading back over this thread I saw many comments about the Crude (CL) trade. There appear to be three other positions open in addition to the CL position. MarketSurfer did not provide prices or position size so I assumed all positions were opened on Monday April 1st. In each case I assumed an...

This guy? http://www.elitetrader.com/vb/member.php?s=&action=getinfo&userid=44899

Swan: Read these threads: http://www.elitetrader.com/vb/showthread.php?threadid=255236 http://www.elitetrader.com/vb/showthread.php?s=&threadid=255329&highlight=data The second thread references the first thread but I think there is more general info in the first with comments about...

CP Trader: Q1) Many vendors put a hidden partition on your drive and that becomes the system backup. They do not provide a backup DVD for your operating system. In the event of corruption in the working area of your C drive (the operating system portions,drivers, and possibly other...

Jerry: What language are you using? Jack

I had no idea what a CFD (Contract for Difference) was so I looked it up. I noticed the following on IB's web site: Legal residents of the US, Canada, Hong Kong and Australia are prohibited from trading the IB-issued CFDs. Any chance IB will not even enable access to the quotes if you are...

This is very, very rarely true. More often than not the "browser-based" program is one version ahead of the standalone. In instances where the basic version number is the same, the revision level is often different. If you use the "browser-based" program it checks with the IB server whenever...

PepperJ: Yes it is. Learned the term last century and am not sure if I mis-remembered or the name has changed over the years. Probably mis-remembered, am getting old. Just to add to your store of knowledge, the Fed used to change the margin rate from time to time. If I recall it has...

Most home routers can be accessed from any computer physically connected to the network. You can try the following default IP addresses from your browser: 192.168.0.1 192.168.1.1 192.168.2.1 One of those should get you to a login screen. Some routers have their address and initial...

PepperJ: No problem. It took me forever to geta handle on margin and I didn't even get into using the appreciated value of your account to buy more, the infamous special miscellaneous account, etc., etc. For your info here is another thread just posted concerning IB's risk averse approach...

The terminology can be confusing. Initial margin can be up to 50% of the purchase. (2:1) Intraday margin can be 25%. (4:1) Say you have $20,000 cash in your account. Regulation T ( a quasi-government regulation - set by the Federal Reserve) allows the broker to loan you another...