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I'm pretty sure none of their trades were far enough away from the current market that they would be deemed bustable.

The solution is to put him on ignore.

Giving credit where credit is due. IB's notification system has been rock solid for me for about three weeks.

Volcker set the stage for low inflation, high growth, and a booming stock market. The current fed has set us up for high inflation, low growth, an underperforming stock market, and the end of the US dollar as the world reserve currency. RIP Volcker.

Impressive, although I found duckduckgo severely lacking for any programming related search (like you hinted at). It wasn't even in the same league as google. I can't use it if it doesn't work.

Yes this happens to me about 50% of the time I resort to manual authentication. Sometimes I never get the notification.

I can confirm that I have had some slow notifications. I only wait for a few seconds before giving up and doing a manual authentication so I don't know how long the notification would have taken to get to me.

I've been down this road before. I want to disable lots of Windows 10 because it is bloated or annoys me with warning messages. But Microsoft has decided to make it extremely difficult for end users to have freedom with their systems. Even if I manage to disable some things, they come back after...

Better yet, get an android phone and keep the laptop.

In the future, never let any tech support person remotely take over your machine unless you quadruple check that everything is on the up and up. Or install Linux.

It involves the difference in FX translation between the trade date and the settlement date of a foreign stock transaction and it only amounts to a few dollars. However, I wrote my own program to double check IB's FX Income Worksheet and everything matches except this one entry. And when I look...

In my experience, the FX Income Worksheet has been spot on except for one instance which still has an outstanding ticket at IB for more than a year. Make sure you understand what actions result in an FX reportable transaction for tax purposes before you declare IB's worksheet erroneous.

If you are flat for 31 days (i.e., December), then you have broken the chain of wash sales at that point for every security that you are flat. Therefore, you will not be carrying a wash sale over from one year to the next. Therefore, you can safely assume that your tax calculations will be...

As an individual, even with TTS, the default gain/loss rules are capital gains/losses and are reported on Schedule D. https://www.irs.gov/taxtopics/tc429 To change from the capital gain/loss rules, an individual must elect MTM. Then the gains/losses will be ordinary gains/losses. To elect MTM...

I am pretty sure that it was determined that spoofing was not the cause of the flash crash.

The spoofing laws are complete bullsh*t. If I post an order, that order can get executed against, period. Just the act of posting an order implies that I could be filled. Any law that attempts to get inside the mind of a trader to determine "intent" of an order is a crock of sh*t.

It will be boring. You can look up emacs org mode on Youtube and see. It is basically an organizational tool within the emacs text editor. Everything is text based and human readable. I just discovered it a month ago and I'm in the process of switching all my notes to it. There will be a steep...

Emacs org mode!

I try to minimize my taxes and fees, but different strokes for different folks.

Yes, I think you are correct. It also seems like if you don't use M2M and you have a trading business where you can write off trading expenses, then you could have negative QBI which may negate QBI from other sources.