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What? Canadian provinces are seceding? Oh. Never mind. :-)

Good job! Thanks IB :-)

So what's a CFD? Something like bullets or conversions? What do they cost and who offers them?

Can someone who trades UK stocks comment on whether the additional taxes shown on the commission schedule are really accurate? They seem quite high: ".5% UK Stamp tax, 1% Irish Stamp tax on purchases" At minimum (depending on how you read it), this means 1.5% tax on purchases only. If you...

As part of this, I'm guessing that they added all those extra non-US exchanges to the route selection popup that comes up when you add a new ticker symbol. It would be nice if it didn't do that for accounts that are not multi-currency (i.e. not show non-USD routes for USD-only accounts).

Are you trying to say that brokers are paying a percentage of their profits to the exchange, in ways other than commissions and per-share/per-ticket based fees? Can you elaborate? I'd like to see a campaign to get the exchanges to change their policy regarding paying multiple times for...

At some point in the last week or so, I too had trouble with delays and disconnects to IB (but not other sites). At the time, I did a traceroute to IB, and found it going through alternet (UUNet) for the bulk of the trip from my ISP. Historically, from ISPs in southern cal anyway, UUNet has...

When did they close early?

1) I chuckle a little every time I see new hotkeys get added, while my simple request for a "kill switch" (cancel all) hotkey gets ignored. Am I really the only one that needs the ability to instantly cancel all orders when "something bad" happens? The amount of time (e.g. 2 seconds) it takes...

I'd suggest they flash the View choice on the menu bar back and forth between normal and red background (slowly - no more than every 5 seconds). Easily seen, and takes no additional space. If this can't be done (I don't remember what properties are on individual menu items), they could flash the...

Does anyone else have suggestions for commissions somewhere near IB's, with the same connectivity to ECNs? I've only found one other retail broker (ProTrader) that has direct connections to Instinet, REDIBook, Island, and ARCA (i.e. not via SelectNet), allowing you to see quotes and post...

Just a clarification: Instinet via IB closes at 18:25, and you need to cancel your orders before then or you won't be able to (it'll just go magenta). I have a feeling that if you leave the order live at 18:25, it is still subject to getting filled on Instinet until 18:30 - I think this...

Personally, I've offered to pay for whatever Thomas Peterffy thinks makes this restriction necessary, because it severely handicaps me and costs me money every day. He's uninterested, however, in even explaining the reason. Like you, nitro, I don't want something for nothing - I just want to be...

Similar to this problem, if you have multiple mixed-lot orders in an OCA group, I've seen a fill on one of them not decrement the number of shares in the other orders. I think the situation was something like: I'm short 55 shares of XYZ. I want to cover the 55 and go long another 100, so I...

The way odd-lot (and odd-lot portion of mixed-lot) orders are handled depends on where the order is routed. Instinet and REDIBook effectively maintain separate odd-lot and round-lot books, providing protection against odd-lot fills for round-lot orders. This is why you will often see a market...

Makes sense. My comment was made assuming that you want a neutral position in the stock. I guess there are times, though, when that might not be the case. If IB operates like other option MMs, I'm guessing they are sometimes looking to put on a stock hedge immediately after getting hit for an...

Can you tell us what the nature of the problem was? I'm just wondering if it affected other customers.

Can you describe how the fills were, in relation to the current quote and market? I was having a speculative conversation with someone about how they would approach this for listed stocks, and still give you the benefit of the price improvement that occurs on most NYSE fills. I speculated...

The response from the broker doesn't sound like something that a non-techie c/s person would make up (the talk about tracing and timeouts). It's entirely possible that emails from c/s go out through a different SMTP server than the system that sends statements, depending on how their network is...

It depends on what and how you trade. My average trade size works out to just under 500 shares. It's not for lack of trying to trade more size, just the nature of my trades, which mostly add liquidity, relying on others to hit or take me. For me, a per-ticket shop would be terrible (unless it...