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And more capital letters, too, to confuse translating engines (i.e. babelfish) into thinking that a proper name is not. Why are you calling us "fishing rods"? :) :)

Another advantage of the standalone version (as opposed to the browser version) is that the browser version will push a new version of TWS to you upon login when one is available. If you're on a dialup (56K even), this can take a minute or two, usually at exactly the wrong time :-) With the...

Do you mean a limit sell to take profit plus a stop loss? Why is the stop above? Was it a cash account, trading stocks? There's some issue with it thinking that one of the orders (the cheaper) one has to be a short sale since they could both theoretically go active at the same time (i.e. if...

Used to be you could trade them at myTrack (www.mytrack.com). I think they were involved in something to make that marketplace more electronic, too. Don't know about shorting, though. That would seem to be a risk-management nightmare.

Friday, my alternate ISP said that the DNS attacks were continuing again, though I can't find evidence of that in the media anywhere. I had DNS troubles through Sunday, but it's better now. FWIW, I didn't need to reset my cable modem, since there was no problem with the connection to the ISP -...

arzoo said: I noticed that the demo keeps 'restarting' after a given amount of time, ie. starts 'loading in progress...' every now and then. My connection goes through cable modem via linksys router. This should not happen, and usually indicates that it thinks it has lost connection with the...

Interactive Brokers (www.interactivebrokers.com) is up 22+ hours per day. For stocks, that means Instinet 03:00-18:25 and other ECNs starting at 07:00 through 20:00 EST. For GLOBEX, 00:30-22:50 EST, plus Sunday afternoon when they open for the week.

Sounds like the wording of the agreement may be in your favor, since they placed some of the orders, but not that one. I'd suggest sending them a proper business letter pointing this out and demanding a fill at the market open price for that order. Paper letters tend to get more attention than...

I don't believe there is official support for the APIs from IB, though they have been fairly responsive in the discussion boards on their site, thanks to the efforts of some individuals at IB (thanks!). To the original poster: There is nothing inherent in the DDE/Excel interface that should...

German is English, just with more guttural sounds :)

The new hotkey configurability is very cool, but I'm disappointed that there is still no ability to assign "cancell all" or "cancel page" to hotkeys. Others seem to want this trivial change, but it never gets done. Can those of us that want it please respond so we can demonstrate that there is a...

As of a few days ago, the NASD has apparently told IB that options are governed by the PDT rules. Options settle in 1 day. This, of course, doesn't explain why free-riding is allowed. None of this stuff makes any sense, or is even self-consistent. I wish someone at the NASD, SEC, NYSE, or...

dlincke said: IB's feed for stocks is not ticky by tick but a snapshot feed updating approcimately once per second. Their Globex feed (NQ, ES etc.), however, recently has been upgraded to a tick by tick feed. Actually, I think everyone is probably now getting the faster stock quotes, too...

I'm guessing that this is a waste of time, but just in case this person actually believes what they are spewing: "jenna": If you had done any trades through IB, you would know exactly how and where you get executed, and that it is according to your instructions. They aren't some magic...

AFAIK, it's not legal for them to do this. Can someone confirm that, while other brokers are being hounded by the regulators over the silliest and grayest interpretations of the grayest rules, Datek is allowed to commit such a flagrant violation? IB will open margin accounts for $2K. You are...

catcando said: I am a swing trader. I trade small lots of 75-100 shares, For this type of trading, IB may be the cheapest around, at 0.01/share with a minimum commish of $1. For a 100-share trade, that's 91% cheaper than the AMTD commish you mentioned. There are some issues with trading...

Why is that a problem, though? It doesn't really affect anything, in my experience. I have a U account that used to be a futures account, in which I only trade futures. I assume you meant 112.828125. We equity traders went through this pain some time ago. Such is life, I guess. I can't...

I, too, have noticed increased hold times (maybe 5-10 minutes average, which still isn't too bad), even when there isn't a wide-ranging problem. I suspect IB may have gotten a lot of new biz from the PD fiasco and they might currently be somewhat understaffed as a result.

Seems like if REDI were smart, they'd halt trading whenever they reached 4.x% of the total volume so they can continue to stay in biz. Oh yeah. This is good for investors and the markets. Along with the margin BS that's going on. Unreal.

It's not a glitch. It really happens. It has nothing to do with IB (or whoever you send the order through). I get fills like that almost daily. Often, what will happen is that you will get the tail end of a larger order. Picture the following offers on Island: 48 @ 30.90 200 @ 30.95 <--...