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He posted further (scant) details about his "eventual" contact with IB well after he posted here. No initiative. No details about what he tried to do to fix the issue etc. Waste of our time.

OP didn't bother to try a backup system/connection, call the broker for support etc? If everybody who ever had an (undiagnosed) Internet connectivity problem posted here, there would be a flood of posts.

Sure it does - you appear to fail at seeing that the original poster had no other recourse than post on ET.

This thread has so much fail. Anybody who doesn't plan for basic failures is doomed to fail. Do you have a backup Internet link? Do you have self-documented procedures that you can use "in case of emergency"? Does your wife/husband/trading partner know how to do this? Have they tried it...

US holiday perhaps

There's absolutely no requirement for you to hedge in the same account or with the same broker. Remember that FX is on margin so actually doesn't need much to fund it. Periodically you'd send money to/from your hedging account depending upon where you made your FX gains/losses. Also check...

Max - he's not trading currencies! Apollo13 - Why not just hedge your currency exposure? You are interested in your worth in AUD. So, whenever you take a USD equity positions, you are effectively short AUDUSD. So, just take an equivalent long position in AUDUSD for your exposure. This can...

The costs of a computer are insignificance to your other trading costs but you don't need multiple 4K monitors to trade. Screen real estate is nice though. More real estate is great. Remember that dedicated GPUs have their own high-speed RAM too. The Ryzens use much slower system RAM so...

Why do you even post this garbage dealmaker?

If you're worried about a margin call blowing up your account, you are either undercapitalized or over-leveraged or both. Time to reassess your trading strategy.

Smells like LTCM all over again.

In other news: All spot FX brokers are bucket shops!

The bucket shop you trade with just takes an opposite position to you, and they are making consistent profits from you.

Did you contact John Bogle and ask? Slight changes in methodology/source data can cause this too. There are at least 4 headline methods for "earnings" and a few variants on the treatment of extraordinary items between different vendors. Many people think that the S&P 500 Total Return Index...

Your expectation of what you need to daytrade is way too low. $210-$300 for data is cheap.

I have a live feed which contains every tick, every venue, every trade cancellation. I don't pay any attention to what my broker platforms tell me unless a discrepancy is detected and then further risk mitigation strategies are employed.

I don't think anything. I refer to the data. What's the difference between the ENTIRE premarket and just the premarket session? Seems a weird emphasis, or did you have some other variation on your definition?

Currency fluctuations are are compounding (or reducing) some of these figures. eg. AUD has taken a beating - but their market is more like 2% off their recent time highs, not 9%. Also the ETF table doesn't do all time highs very well - it seems to be ignoring the peaks from 2007. "All time...

Well, it's not actually a new sector - it is an expanded sector. As usual screwups go, S&P have royally screwed this up for the next week. The amended indexes/relocated subindexes/new subindexes have been created yet they don't actually change the classifications of the underlying stocks until...

Lots of GICS changes happening soon. Of course all of these weightings are crap because they haven't/won't be recalculated according to the new classifications, so historically they are inconsistent and meaningless in comparison to newer data. The weighting of each company in the index is...