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Well IB management seems to listen. I got this reply to my feedback asking them to pressure Quicken to fix the problems Canadians have using the program and to identify shorts and covers in their statements in a way that will allow Quicken to process them automatically. "Thank you for you...

I have also written to IB management concerning their failure to distinguish between short and long transactions and the problems it causes. I have asked them to get together with the Quicken people to work out a solution. I have no problems getting Quicken to agree with my IB account so long...

Vikina, how so you handle short sales and short covers? Am I on the right track in my previous post? I don't see any other way as IB does not distinguish between regular buys and buys to cover a short and similarly for sells and short sales. Surely they and Quicken between them could work out...

Am I stupid, or is it really as labour intensive as it seems to record downloaded short sales and short covers in Quicken. This is the method I am using for a short sale. I highlight the downloaded transaction which brings up a data entry line in the Quicken registry. I go to the second...

I bought Quicken primarily to update my account with Interactive Brokers. However, I also wanted to use it for tracking my other investments with Canadian institutions, so when given the choice if US or Canadian location during installation I chose Canada. I was then unable to download from IB...

One concept I have great trouble with is the thought of gaps providing support and resistance. I can see the psychological basis for zones of congestion providing support or resistance when they are revisited, because there are a bunch of people who made the wrong decision at that price...

I had only a trial subscription soon after they opened, but it is my recollection that Reality Trader chat room called both entries and suggested exits.

Most (all?) indicators are derived from the basic parameters of price, volume and time, and are therefore merely a convenient substitute for a well-calibrated eyeball. Some people have an eyeball sufficiently well calibrated to not need indicators.

Does Quicken do an effective job of matching transactions, including partial buy and sells, to produce a profit and loss statement?

With the latest edition a problem has come back that I thought had been rectified. If it bring up a buy or sell order and adjust the price, following which I select the order as a stop order, the price resets. For example, if XYZ has a bid at $25 and I click the bid the order will come up...

I see that IB data can now be exported to Quicken. Does Quicken match the trades and generate a profit/Loss statement?

The biggest ripoff is that the exchanges charge fees at all for real time quotes. I have never been able to see the justification for the exchanges making this a cash cow on a per customer basis. If I go to the track I don't have to pay to see the the current odds on my nag. I would love to see...

.... but it is a terribly difficult read, particularly for someone whose first language is not English.

X must be greater than the price you have dropped, i.e. greater than 25

Here's a tapereading question that puzzles me. Not often, but not rarely either, I see a bid that has been static for some time hit and then the bid immediately jumps higher. Not what one would logically expect, so what's going on them?

I saw a problem today that I haven't seen for a long time. It used to be that intermittantly during the day the wrong last price for QQQ would show. It was always the same wrong price and often significantly away from the real last price - like a point of more. Today I saw exactly the same...

Regarding the original subject, buying a strong stock at the close and selling at the open is a technique as old as the hills. It was either Justin Mamis about 1980 or Gerald Loeb in the 60's who told a tale in a book about someone who had a seat on the NYSE visiting the floor of the exchange in...

My bread-and-butter trade is entering following pullbacks in high relative strength stocks, looking for a few days of gains if all goes well. I run my own, strictly non-commercial, bulletin board discussing my trading. This post...

NEO_HR said: "BUT YOU?RE IN THE STATES, where tha "game" is played, you can get books in a couple of hours, you can meet real traders etc. " I am actually in Canada, which is almost the States, but I have never met or spoken to another stock trader. They seem to be a fairly rare breed here...

Several posts have mentioned position size as a factor in this issue, so perhaps I might jump in with my own problem. I am a short-term position trader (hours to days) who has been quite successful over the last couple of years. In fact I have been sufficiently successful that the size of my...