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Thanks def. Hope things work out without much trouble.

Which do most users use (which is faster/better) -- standalone or web based? By the way, with regards to the transfer, what should I be waiting for, an email or confirmation? Is there a way to check what has happened, and when should I start to be concerned? Thanks def for your help.

I chose the wire transfer ($9.99) option in datek, which I believed was a wire transfer, right? How do you get into the TWS system? I'm a new user, all experience I have is with the demo, so I hope you pardon the naive questions.

I transferred funds from datek to IB yesterday morning. I just wanted to know how long it takes before IB registers it, and how I would know. I cant seem to find a place in the acct mgt area saying account balance or something like that. I'm just wondering because the datek account already...

I just opened a new account and am transferring the funds over to ib. I just wanted to know how different is the demo from the real platform? Reason I ask is I noticed that the demo keeps 'restarting' after a given amount of time, ie. starts 'loading in progress...' every now and then. I...

Is it advisable to use market orders with ib? or just like most other brokers, at least the ones I tried, putting market orders will certainly give you a price way off from the best bid or offer u see on screen. Thanks.

how does taxation go for non US citizen living outside the US. I filled out the w8ben form, and if I understand correctly I do not need to pay taxes in the US, but in my home country. Is this correct?

I've finished completing the steps to open an IB account, and can log in now. but I dont really know what to do next. There doesnt seem to be any instructions. I remembered reading something about account approval, so do I just wait for them to approve the account opening? Right now...

what's the difference between a router and a switch. I understand the difference between using a hub and router to share an internet connection. But I dont get why the price of a router, and a switch, for example, for linksys, are so far apart. What addition or benefit does a router have over...

With regards to the IB setup, what do you guys use. I'm strictly a stocks guy, so I'm wondering if the down times I've been hearing have to do with the whole server or globex (I mostly hear globex). Other than that, I'm happy to hear about fills, although some have told me their quotes are...

I'm in the process of finishing up my account opening with ib... switching from datek. But have noticed a lot of problems lately in the forums., like SERVER DOWN, INABILITY TO SHORT, etc. Hows ib's servers lately? and anything I should be aware of? Thanks

Thanks GG, Is GREED really good? Anyways, that's good to hear... I've noticed however, that a lot of complaints have come over the forums about IB's downtime lately. Any thoughts? Does this affect all accounts, or just stocks, just futures? How has your experience been lately? Thanks...

Would any of the guys using the linksys routers happen to use ib as their broker? I'm planning to move to ib, but noticed that the demo doesnt run behind my analogx proxy server. Which makes me want to find out if ib's platform works behind a router (and if the firewall on the linksys has to...

Yup. Actually, tried 3 of them, started with the 1.3 in ib's site, then 1.4.1 and read about some guys hangind on the ib discussion board so tried the 1.4.0, but all still the same. I wrote to tac@interactivebrokers.com but no reply yet. I did notice though that what happens is Iexplore is...

Anchor, Let me get this straight. Use quotetracker which takes stock feeds from datek (I know how quote tracker works, but never used it heavily). Then use IB's futures feed (which is ok). All this time, ib will be the broker, where I'll put orders thru. using their standalone app. I'm...

Anchor, how bad is it. I'm in the middle of trying to switch from datek to ib since datek has been very bad lately for me. I mean it goes down quite a bit, suddenly you cant go enter an order, or change web pages. On streamercentral, it takes sometimes 3-10 seconds just to get the order...

I dont know what's wrong. I tried it on my roommates pc and it worked, so I know the NIC is ok since we bot the stuff at the same time when we hooked up to the dsl connection. Dont know if its the java, I got the plug in from the ib site so should be ok, though I did have ms java on my pc...

By the way, I've been testing the ib demo system. I cant figure out why it hangs on my pc, when I close one of the windows. I tried it on other people's pc and it works ok. I tried my pc without much of any thing on it and still doesnt work. Does nvidia's geforce card have problems with the...

Ya! datek's become crap, after the merger, very slow, down quite often for the past 3-4 weeks.

Does IB go down often? I'm looking to switch from datek to ib, but read through all the down times. Is this on all counts, just on stocks, or globex, etc? or you cant log in at all? Has it gotten bad because there are too many traders on?