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Sell a deep ITM put will be considered a wash sale by the IRS. IRS requires that you sell a put that has a substantial likelihood it will expire unexercised. A deep ITM will most likely be exercised before expiration so it is considered a substantially identical stock or securities. Best to sell...

Besides going to sleep early and drinking coffee, you should consider taking a power nap (approx 15 min) around 9:00 am PT; this is lunch time in NY. Generally nothing moves around that time.

The price of the option is determined by the strike price and the time duration. I suspect that you purchased a far out of the money call. You can use the option's delta to determine how much the option price will move, relative to the underlying. You should read up on the basics of options...

I am confused. Currently the CME Group website states: "Minimum Price Fluctuation: $.0001 per Canadian dollar increments ($10.00/contract). $.00005 per Canadian dollar increments ($5.00/contract) for CAD/USD futures intra-currency spreads executed electronically." So why does the press release...

Yes the greek columns are filled out in a real account.

Don't like it. UI customization is more restricted. Changes to UI not obvious. Also no longer able to add/change columns on the position page. Unable to change the column width by dragging or other means. Truncated column value shown, such as "HV 3". I want to see the actual historical...

My bad, only the stop is blue because it is held at IB. The limit should be green.

Everything is working correctly. When you place a bracket order, the stop and limit orders are suppose to be dark blue in color because they are waiting for execution. The orders will only be green, working when the order is being filled. I trade brackets with IB all the time and this is what I...

Your best bet is to go back to Java 7 and use TWS 938. To do that, read this link https://www.java.com/en/download/help/java_revert.xml

OK, got hold of them. They want me to update my TWS and try again. So, I guess I will do that. Hopefully that will solve my problem. BTW, they position is that if you have any problem and you are not using the latest release, then it's not be a problem. I guess this is the standard response from...

Unable to contact them yet, so I opened a trouble ticket. Hopefully I will get a better answer then to reinstall Java and TWS.

Recently in the last 2 weeks, I am having problems exiting my position (real trading). When using the TWS Booktrader interface to place a closing position, it never gets executed. The price will just move past my order. Even when I used the "Close Position" button, my position never gets...

The problem with this strategy is that you will experience a long string of losses that will mount up and blow up your account. The 3-4 pips is within the noise level of any actively traded currency pair. Money management is important, but having a system that has an edge is also very important...

Have you looked at using the lowest low for the last 3 bars for longs and highest high for shorts?

So why trade options when futures seems to be more forgiving...less thing to get right? Both are leveraged instruments.

Home Depot only when up approximately 2%, this statistically insufficient. It is like need to explain why you are 36 seconds late on a 30 minute commute. To be a successful trader, you need to learn to ignore market noise.

If you followed your plan, then pat yourself on the back. Some trades works as anticipated; some won't. You shouldn't adjust your trading plan to accommodate the outliers. Plan your trade and follow your plan; its the key to success.

Its probability the mouse, especially if you had it for a few years. I recently had the same problem with my mouse. The left button was flaky. Sometimes it would register and sometimes it would not. Changed the mouse and now every works great.

There is a R api for Interactive Brokers's TWS platform. See here http://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/IBrokers/index.html

I don't know how you have configured your network, but you should be able to access the files/resources of PCs located on the network. Please forgive my forwardness, but here is a solution if you are having problems interconnecting the two networks: 1) Set one router to 192.168.1.1, and set...