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In this case: 1) There is no foreign account; the account has been established and well-funded in the U.S. by a U.S. citizen, for 5 years. This citizen is entirely law-abiding and acting in good faith. Nothing "wrong" in any way has been done with this account other than what is...

Chat Transcript Between IB(xxx) and NA Started at: Wed, 26 Nov 2008 16:18:57 UTC ChatSys: This chat is associated with ticket #xxx367. Please record this number for use in future inquiries. You are currently in room 'General '. IB: Hello, this is IB. How may I help you? : Yes, how do I...

Dear Traders, The following message was received by a trader associate of mine. Here are some facts. The account itself has been established for 5 years, capitalized at roughly $100k. Recently, in September, the trader established an alternate login for a trader who is located outside the...

Well, I modified my API client so I could access TFZ8 and it's just awful. I'm hoping it somehow improves. This is no reflection on IB, of course but it's a real loss not to have ER2. The TFZ8 NYBOT DOM was only 2-3 tiers deep, instead of 5 for Globex. It's depth wasn't consistent either...

Traders in IB's trader chat saying IB gonna phase out ER2 (Russell 2k futures contract) as it moves to ICE. Anybody know the particulars of it? They're saying that IB won't any longer provide ER2 market data.

I'd like to hear much more about this restriction. I use a pre-loaded order strategy via the API, where the preloaded live order is "smart" and keeps itself away from the market by using as few changes as possible until it is bumped to strike in the futures markets. I may have to code in...

But I am generally an IB "evangelist". I complain only when, in my opinion, they take actions which appear, again in my opinion, to have no justification and I await a coherent explanation of this huge unexpected change, as well. (I'm not holding my breath.)

Well, from the original $2k, through $5k and now to $10k it's only a 500% increase. I suppose it could have been even higher. This is clearly to protect us from ourselves.

A new client of mine also pointed out this new $10k initial funding requirement. I checked, and it's apparently true. So, it was $2k, then bumped to $5k and now it's $10k. Reminds me of the intraday margin problems earlier this year. "In order to open a new account you must deposit USD...

I just got a Quad processor and, of course struggled with this new Vista restriction. Specifically it's a Gateway GT5636E to which I added another 2gb RAM for a total of 4gb RAM with the Quad processor. I run it with pagefile size set to zero (no pagefile) so everything's forced into ram, by...

http://www.microsoft.com/whdc/device/display/multimonVista.mspx Vista does restrict display devices and driver combinations which is explained in the link above. This can cause some grief for multi-monitor trading setups.

THANK YOU, DEAR IB, FOR RELAXING THESE INTRADAY MARGINS. :)

Curious how they're doing this, ain't it ? But it's in the right direction at long last... :)

It's no mistake. There is no intraday margin advantage for many key equities-related futures, and others perhaps not so obviously related to equities, such as ags, etc. IB is protecting us intraday traders, of course. :) Many of us are hoping the "rumor" is true that IB will finally...

For convenience, here is a link to futures margins at IB: http://individuals.interactivebrokers.com/en/trading/marginRequirements/margin_amer.php?ib_entity=llc As of today, I haven't noted any significant intraday changes, but we can check it every day and send positive thoughts for lower...

All specific comments I have read from IB appear not to have any timeframes, nor to hint at any intent to lower the margins. But it's worth the effort; perhaps there can be a modest (at least) decrease in intraday. Thanks.

I strongly agree with your point here. Thanks for posting it.

Well, it's all about good design while, at the same time thinking about the load on the system. For example, I have hundreds of analyzer objects, each of which absorbs data, but when data expires, each analyzer will need to "trim" the old data. So I have design choices: 1) trimming or...

Well, these OS's are "soft realtime" anyway. Of course not all of those Java threads are screaming at the same time. So you don't have constant contention among all of those threads, not at all. But these are all separate activities which trigger when needed, and most of them do show up as...

Don't have Vista yet, so no idea. Linux nearly always more efficient, but then maybe the GUI layer not quite as fast as Windows since more of a separated layered architecture than on Windoze. I thought the GUI was long ago pulled into the kernel so Windows could have a faster more integrated...