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Use contract search on home page, black bar, right side: http://www.interactivebrokers.co.uk/contract_info/index.php?site=IB&action=Top%20Search&symbol=&description= Enter : contractType = futures currency = USD underlyingType =Grains, Energy, softs, etc Find You may add additional...

There is no way to say. It completely depends on whether/when lenders respond to locate requests. More often than not, they will respond affirmatively to some titles while leaving others in an indeterminate state. They rarely say "no, this stock is definitely not available". As I mentioned...

Believe it or not, the motive for this system has nothing to do with making money via our SLB department. Let's assume the amount of additional shorts enabled by this system is 20M/day. That works out to something just over 500 USD per day before expenses. Doesn't even pay the salaries for the...

zdreg, I understand your point that treating everyone equally is one of our strong points that we should not compromise. But, in this case, accommodating an opt-out request wouldnt be favoritism since, IMHO, it would be a negative for the client to request exclusion given there is absolutely no...

I think you have missed the point: the IB Stock Locate System is completely egalitarian. All IB clients have equal access to it. You don't need to subscribe or pay for it; you don't need to do anything differently than you always do/did. In fact, you don't even need to know it is running since...

send everything to me by email (see your PM), or, better/faster, contact us by chat/phone (if you get Chat, ask for Lanetta).

Nope. It is fully automatic. We assume if you tried to short, it is because you want to be able to sell short and we will try to enable that for you. The only reason to make it an optionable feature would be to not have certain short sale attempts count toward a rating where this rating may...

They refer to the same concept, namely, which interest rate bracket you are in which is based on the amount of money applicable. In this case, the total short stock value would determine which short rebate tier you fell into. The difference in tiers is that as you have bigger short positions...

Clarification Time on "Automated" Locate Service 1) Web Explanation: there will be a web page describing the service and details relating to it. It is a largely manual process and we are still ramping up so we have not made a big noise about it. 2) Workflow is as follows:client attempts...

I expect 17:15, maybe even 17:10 in 2 weeks plus/minus 1 week. In other words, in 1-3 weeks we hope to have I-PRO up at either 17:10 or 17:15. We actually tried last Monday for this early schedule but we exposed an unexpected timing dependency in our system that in fact did limit us. We are...

Closing Prices: I thought we just fixed the scaling on the closing prices for floor products but I see PB is still goofy. I'll try to get it fixed. Contract Info: an upgrade to include margins in the contract info application from the web site is already in progress. I would guess it will be...

For those who had issues with our home page CPU usage, please look now. On my machine, it has improved 40%. Still busy, but not frenetic.

it has to do with session mgmt in your browser. The session needs to time out before the system realizes you are gone and this takes some time. But it can be changed to recognize the absence of your window more quickly. Should be doable.

1. HTB? Please send me a PM what you mean. If a dialogue interferes with the API functionality, I'll try to get it fixed. 2. 3.5 means 3.5% as the benchmark for the rebate rate calculation (instead of the daily posted BM which is today around 4.55%) in the event you actually short the stock...

As clearly stated in my post, we did not capture the rejects because they were effected in a non-standard way. Had the order been poorly formatted then that would have been an IB error. But the orders were properly created and reasonable but the floor personnel, on a case-by-case basis (i.e. no...

The issue is NEVER about right or wrong, This is not a morality question. We handle all issues in the framework of 'responsibility'. IB does not work in "grey". If we did, we would have stayed in the old-boy way of doing things and would not have made the commitment to technology. We are a...

There is lots of irrelevant commentary about the IB website so let's clear this whole thing up: IB's (and every Company's) website is informational unless parts, such as Ebays transaction areas, are specifically qualified as being binding. A website is NOT a legal contract. Websites of...

Lots of suggestions. I have taken down everything on the last 3-4 pages.

Yes, there is a lockout after multiple failed login attempts. We will reduce the restrictions on password length. Your math is to the point, but security to the lay person is as much perception as reality. People feel safer with a door having 3 locks than 1, when in fact the weak point is...

There have been some comments and suggestions about the IB Web/Trouble Ticket (thanks GTC and JackR). I will try to address them and offer some usage tips: Authentication: users access the system from inside Account Management (...