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Trading multiple accounts via one workstation will benefit me greatly. IB has really made a lot of advances in the TWS software in the past 6 months, nearly all of them moving toward customization and allowing the trader to personalize the interaction. This is great for all of us. Thanks...

Not getting much support from the admitted drug user (and others) here eh? I agree with you that IB CS is bad and appears to be getting worse. It is my estimation that the high number of new accounts have overrun the existing staff and IB has not expanded fast enough to meet demand. When I...

I'm on a few boards of companies based in jurisdictions that Cox holds dear. We have a good bit of interaction with the municipal governing bodies of those jurisdictions - I live there too. Every chance I get to gab with one of the supervisors, I share a Cox horror story. Most of the...

I hope you can sue them...although I doubt it. I absolutely hate those bastards. They have been my only option for high-speed internet. If I had ANY other choice at all, I'd drop those crooks at Cox in a heartbeat. I could spend hours and pages describing the lies and cons they have played...

Good for you Hitman. Improve that downline...30-40 traders? Wow. Now let's get them out recruiting. If each of them can just recruit 2 traders each...think of the profits!!!

You can launch multiple TWS sessions. Just log into each respective account. I've had as many as 4 running at once on the same machine. It works well as long as you have enough RAM and your connection is good.

I found a pretty good service. www.stricknet.com End of day data, $35 a month. I can send you a sample file if they won't. I have a friend who uses it, then mines the raw data into pieces and gives me some refined results based on what I'm looking for that day. His EOD data is every...

If I post an order, they must either transact it or post it if I'm inside. That's the rule. In some cases, I would have been doing them a great favor by adding liquidity, but the orders never made it. Until I can get this cleared up, I must continue to re-enter them each day.

Most of the time, I will sell at the ask or at worse split the bid/ask. I don't pay as much attention to the greeks per se. At $5, all I want is a company that is not going out of business any time soon. I will buy an inital stake, then sell calls and puts as long as it continues to lower my...

Are you leaving the orders overnight? I have no problem waiting til the exchange opens. The problem is that the order is NOT SEEN by any exchange throughout the day. I don't get executed and when I try to cancel it freezes pink. Then I enter another order, sometimes only the new order...

I have been having a problem at IB that has been getting worse lately and wanted to see if anyone else has been experiencing the same thing . I was hoping we could nail down some specifics here before formally getting tech support to try and fix it. I will enter an option order, routed BEST...

I have the same snapshot quote svc from CBOE for $10 per month. I think they have recently discontinued it for new users. The options now appear to be a $15 pkg with 1 second aggregates and a streaming set for $20. Each allows you to save up to 300 tickers. http://www.cboe.com/MktQuote/

In your scenario, you would receive interest on 1K. You receive no interest on the first 10K. For every day that you have over 10K in cash (I assume overnight), you should receive interest on the balance over and above 10K. I think the ibhelp guy who responded to me misunderstood the specifics...

I checked both sides of the wire. I am US based and have contacts at the Fed and Treasury, I received screenshots from the overnight FED system that showed the money being credited on the Citibank side in a timely manner. I have also been told that an incoming wire list gets passed to managers...

Are you certain that an accounting change would forfeit those losses under all circumstances? I would think an adjustment - albeit amortized or phased in - might be applicable.

This is the reply from IB help when I inquired... ************ Dear Trader, You must maintain a credit balance above 10000 for every day of the month. Since your account was opened in the middle of the month you will not start accruing interest until January provided you maintain your...

It looks like each of those scenarios would give you a loss if the stock collapsed and you held on. Fundamentally, EK is in bad shape. Their margins are eroding and according to most analysts, the digital photo business is going to kill them. Based on that and some further fundamental...

I won't trade futures either. IB doesn't want to hear anyone's interpretation of the regs. They are the only broker I know that is doing this. If you want the low commissions, there will be other pitfalls. IB screwed me in opening my corporate account. I got wire confirmation from my...

I haven't done many calendars, but the guys I know who do them (successfully) always go further out.

I wrote IB repeatedly but they refused to explicitly answer the same question. It's either because the person I was corresponding with was too stupid or that they wish to "comply" with exchange rules by simply saying the same thing repeatedly, while using lax enforcement. In February, I...