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I try not to look at glasses half empty. Using a single anecdotal example does not refute the fact that the spread is significant as a % of the range you are trying to capture by daytrading stock using options. Try doing the same thing you did on the spy puts 100 times and the sprad will pmost...

Pretend that the Average true range of your stock is $1.Take an ITM option with a delta of 70-90 and the spread would probably be at the least 10 cents. No one will let u buy at fair value which means you'd probably be taking offers,hitting bids. so you are out 5-10 cents going in and 5-10 cents...

Hi. Does anyone here know how I can fire off or simulate a click in excel using VB 6 code? I have an Excel sheet with a command button. I would like to be able to click on that button every 10 seconds but Excel does not have a simple timer. The easy thing for me would be to have a small VB...

Call me Mr simpleton since I can't think that deep. All I know is that out of the 50 or so cars in my block I can probably count 5 cars that are 4 cylinders. The rest are Explorers, Expeditions, Tahoes,etc.

I think it is 10, the exchange is passed twice, one for SMARt the other for defalt exchange. I use both SMART.How did I know? By looking at the example which works. Like earlier poster said, u need to check real working code agaisnt documentation . Just a lot of head banging, help from other...

hope this helps. This is very close to real code, just missing assigment statements for the putright,exp1,etc. like exp1="09/09/2002" Create a button with this code in the click event. id=1 is IBM, Id=2 = wmt for example. Call Tws1.reqMktData(1, "IBM", secType, exp1, strike, PutRight...

Timmy, they have samples in VB in the IB website. Basically, you have to have an event code that processes the events (i.e puts it into your textbox)

Thanks for the suggestion. I could be way off on these but I think Active X is better than DDE in most cases especially when dealing with a lot of symbols. But if less than 10 symbols , DDe might do it better. I have it in active X currently and I am getting weird data into XL sheets.(i.e. 0...

Hi. Y'all. I have a question about the best way to pull IB option quotes into Excel for my calculations. I have an XL sheet with 10 ticker symbols. I use active X to get a total of 7 symbols per symbol. (i.e. calls ReqMktQuote 7 times). It then writes the bid/offer to my Xl sheet, cancels...

Bernd Kuerbs It was the TWS API issue. Both TWS and API needs to be compatible. Thanks a lot! Saved me a lot of time. Appreciate it!

I have been going nuts with this IB and VB problem past 2 hours so if anyone can help me out, I'd sincerely appreciate it. I had a VB project which works with IB in my PC. I copied everything onto my laptop and it stopped working. It would not even compile (when I press the play button in VB)...

Hi. Is there a way to use Excel's VBA to get last quotes from IB's TWS? I currently use Visual Basic 6.0 to get quotes by using the TWX Active X control in VB and then write it onto my Excel Sheets. I would rather just code in VBA inside Excel to speed things up, but can't figure out a way to...

When you guys say IB does not supply time and sales, is it because IB does not report every trade but subsecond snapshots of time and sales with the NBBO? So if XYZ trades 5 times in 1 second, IB will only show maybe the 3rd and 5th trade due to the snapshot nature of the quote? Thanks

Thanks for your responses, I have a feeling it is a leak in the way ActiveX captures events.

this 5:1 ratio is not unreasonable even for active traders. Yes, it is a pisser that a fee which costs them nothing to implement since it is electronic should cost traders something. I guess they don't want non registered traders from attempting to be pseudo mkt makers. I wonder how the other...

So US citizens living in the US using IB can't trade the KOSPI? What is so special about the KOSPI that makes it desirable? Is is the contract size? nature of the participants, ETc. Thanks

Samsung has a 21.3 inch for 579 at tigerdirect. That tops Dells 2001fp- an extra 1inch for $10 more? Any opinions on Samsungs Thanks

funnyman , if u were to pick 1 would u pick the 2001fp 20.1 inches or the newer 2005fp 20.1? I assume you are alluding to the higher resolution of the 20's over the 19 inches when you mean "more real estate" correct? But is that not extra real estate at the expense of having really small...

There are 2001fp dell monitors on sale for $561 and refurbished 2005fp for 498. 1. Which is a better monitor? 2. Are the warranties different on refurb's than new ones?(bad pixels, etc) I can't find the warranty information on refurbs, the only difference I see is the return policy...

I have a question about api programming specifically capturing events. I have a VB program that captures an order ID everytime I send an ActiveX order object to my system. It is stored in memory. It generally works ok but sometimes it only captures 98% of the order ID's This means that I have...