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Double Down and when it bounces, you can breakeven. Works for me 9 out of 10 times. :D

Your English is poor but I think I understand what you are saying. Suppose a stock's bid Price is 60.00. You can have a Limit Short Sell order for 50.00 and it is NOT illegal. IB will automatically add 1 cent to the current bid and put your short sell in at 60.01. Putting 50 just means...

Awesome! Are you going to hold for BIDU 100+ or use a trailing stop?

For this people who don't know how to ping correctly. Start -> Run Type cmd into the text field and hit Ok The command prompt window will open Cut and Paste ping gw1.ibllc.com into the window and hit enter You should get something like this: C:\Documents and...

I agree, he's an idiot.

Checks take a long time. If it's out of state, it's longer. If it's out of country, even longer. I don't think it has anything to do with your bank. Best way to get your money in is to wire.

I'm starting to grow fond of th IB Charting. I trade based on Price alone with no indicators and the charts look pretty nice. I actually stopped renewing my 1 year subscription of eSignal last month and just using IB charts now. There are two things that bother me about IB charting. 1. To...

Do you backtest or you discretionary? Backtest = TS8 Discretionary = IB You can always get esignal or some 3rd party application like esignal for charts.

Change a different version of TWS and see if it still happens.

Expect 1 hour wait times on phones. The good thing is that it's a 1-800 number.

Yes, you are correct. 2-1 overnight 4-1 intraday

You need to fill out some form in order to make online withrdrawls possible. Never had to do that to use the Funds Request on IB. Tell me that isn't frustrating... "...you must first submit an Online Transfer Authorization Agreement. Once that form has been approved by TradeStation...

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I just opened a TS account last month for my 30 day trial with some money to try out backtesting for my strategies. The market is closed. I just tried calling the 1-800 customer support and it told me they had 15 min wait time. I waited on the phone listening to classical music for 50 mins...

I would disagree. According to your thinking, they could just not give customers any margin and since most traders lose money, they would be doing most of the traders a favor. I would think it's the customer own responsibility if they decide to play with standard 4:1 daytrading margins.

I would never upgrade unless it forces to me upgrade. Never use the latest version unless you like being a beta tester. Learned that lesson once. It's your own fault for upgrading.

http://www.interactivebrokers.com/en/accounts/fees/interest.php?ib_entity=llc#interest USD LIBOR is 4.80 So you would get 4.3% on 90k. 4.3% * 90k = 3879 / 12 months = 322 month my guess.

I don't think that's accurate. If you sold a stock at a loss and you bought back within 30 days, it is a wash sale. It does not depend if you had a profit at end of the year for all the transactions.

Yes, that is correct unless you have elected Mark-to-Market last year.

I'm not a tax specialist but I'm 99.9% sure this is the answer. No, you do NOT have to file a Schedule D on top of the K-1. All your trades from the prop firm are all included in the K-1 you got. Unless you traded stocks with another broker outside of the prop firm, it is not necessary...