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Pitufo, I trade MER every day too, but not much size. How do you limit your losses to a penny or two? The spread is over .05 over half the time, and my fills are painfully slow. Then there are the real fun times when he opens the spread up .40. I would appreciate any tips on limiting...

Nasdaqmadness, Everyone used to do this. I believe it was called "shorting against the box". I used to do it with a firm that cleared with Penson, and they had special margin set ups so that it didn't eat up your capital. My understanding is that it is now ILLEGAL even if you use different...

FWIW, I am considering the possibility of joining a professional firm, and I e-mailed ECHO this exact question and a couple of others, on March 6th. I received and e-mail from them saying I would be contacted within 48 hours. Still haven't heard anything. Maybe using the phone is better...

I ran this on an old p200 computer and it sounded like you said. I ran it on a better compute (same connection) and it was fine. I think I was using a cable modem. So, it could be the connection or the computer :confused: . Good luck

Uptick, I didn't see anything about ECN charges. Does that mean they don't charge them, or they just aren't saying?

Uptick, When I was using Win98 I added a second pci card, but it had to have a certain chip to work. If you check your documentation (it may have been in "help" under "multiple monitors") for W98 it will tell you what chip the pci card must have (actually, there was more than one chip that...

Interactive Brokers doesn't pass through ANY ECN or SOES fees (or rebates).

AAA LOO = limit on open MOO = market on open

I would like to see IB support this board too. But, I didn't realize that advertisers had a different user agreement than members. I think Baron should post what the rules are for advertisers (we know the rules for members) including rules for deleting posts. These rules can obviously be...

But... If this is what brings the members here to see the ads, what harm is done? I thought boards like this tried to attract members, and advertisers paid to have their adds seen by those members. If people come here to get technical advice about their software etc. and see ads for...

Baron, When I go to a forum like ET I assume the advertisers are paying to have their banner adds posted, not to control the boards. I even click on the ads at times to support the forum. I never thought the advertisers were buying the rights to be the only people in the industry that would...

Don, I am a little ignorant about margin/haircut charges, and I'm not totally clear about the information on your web sight. If I have $100k equity, and I am long $400k of various stocks and short $420k of various stocks overnight, how would my margin/haircut charges be calculated. Also...

Well said.

I posted my feelings about the censorship on these boards a while ago. Baron has the right to do what he wants with the board, but I do think it is unfortunate that people will come here thinking that they are reading unbiased information when they are actually reading posts that have been...

TWS worked great for me on Friday. Very fast fills, and no real problem with quotes, but I didn't download the new version. In fact, BEST routing was even displayed for the first time in about a week (I could see where BEST was routing my orders). This is a frustrating problem where some of...

Some of these posts have raised a question I have had lately. Is it really that much more dangerous to hold a stock over night? It seems that some of the halts that happen during the day are just as devastating as overnight gaps. Maybe it's all of the smaller, more common gaps, that scare...

My last name. Pretty original, huh.

I trade with IB everyday, and I agree with alanm and catoosa. You have to consider what is best for your style though. For example, someone posted the shortcomings of IB TWS a couple of pages back, but I didn't care about any of they features he listed.

Nitro, I use IB and have had the same experience with listed stocks(great for nas though). I have never traded listed stocks anywhere else. Do you have better luck having your order show or get filled with another broker or firm? I thought these problems were mostly dirty specialist tricks.

Nitro, You're right, I put the short side on first (unless it's QQQ then it doesn't matter), then I put the long side on. Once in a while I get burnt, but not very often. This is one of the reasons I HATE the slow executions on NYSE stocks. I would rather get an instant fill so that I can...