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suppose i buy X shares SPY ,, ans sold Y shares QQQ , where the net is $0, how does IB calculate my margin??

its simple: 1. losing trades always get filled. 2. quick winning trades will never fill. 3. some winning trades will fill. if your PF is anything less than 3, forget it.

you cant trade options on ISLD or ARCA !

my size is always 100k for about 12 pairs. i tried limit, REL orders, same issue,..

i trade forex heavily on IB but i am not really so happy, the reason is, i have never seen my buy order getting filled unless the ask crossed it, same for short... not sure if ib trade my position or not, but the point is, sometimes when i am in between bid/ask i should get a fill! but i...

to the poster: 1. the market changes, there is no 1 single strategy that can do all the market! 2. historically test your strategy, and know that no strategy lasts forever, one day it will break... so Diversify! 3. using algo trading is not like paper,limit fills are not guaranteed...

do you mean such a trade will cost 0.013 if directed to exchange through api? i saw somewhere in this thread that if directed to arca or island it will be 0.003 for cost+ but i cant find the official link clarifying pegged to market cost when using api directed to arca or isld, can you...

Hi for cost+ , is there ecn rebate for API execution to Pegged-to-Market Orders? can Pegged-to-Market Orders be routed through smart, so that api execution falls under cost+ ? Thanks

is there a demo for this software?

i am looking for such a software that can test a dynamic portfolio of systems over a portfolio of market and in more than one time frame, then in the reports it would show which system(s) from the portfolio of systems performed well on which market for which time frame.... i hope it exists...

so this means that strategy must be written and optimized specifically to the current market its traded on, right?

i meant when markets make fast big moves, the reaction is totally out of technicality, it's all about fear or greed, where big balls take the opportunities...

OTCkrak: >>>fundamentally FX is less of a segregated market.. AUD/JPY during Sydney/ Tokyo hours is moving based on local participation and fundamentals while during NY hours its liquidity is coming as a cross from aud/USD - USD/JPY.. emini -(ES) can make big moves after hours but the real...

The main point of this thread is to share my, and your thoughts about strategies, and why they fail, what makes them good. the main objective of designing a strategy, is to make it profitable, and to do so, you have to design it based on few points, mainly: 1. technical analysis 2. chart...

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Hello, the message from IB: "Execution credits are applied against cancel or modify fees for the day" i would like to know the definistion of "the day" does the offecial day ends at 1615 ? what if i cnaceled orderes before 1615, and i got filled at 1616, i wont be credit ? and what if i...