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It's ridiculous, AFAIK, unless it was somehow necessary for them to have special settlement (T+1) instead of waiting for the T+3 settlement of your trade, in which case, I don't know why they didn't manually handle that for your original trade instead of doing another one. I don't know why that...

"Workspaces" are something else - they save all your open windows, positions, etc. You could put your European tickers on one page, US stocks on another, etc., and then "tear away" pages so that they are displayed at the same time, as long as you don't go over your ticker limit, which is 100...

Genesis self clears...does not use third party vendors... Can someone confirm whether or not they self-clear retail or not? Previously, they were still using CCS for retail accounts, which increased their cost structure and made them less attractive. Also, people talk about 10:1, 50:1...

It's bad enough not being able to get your money because of a capital pinch or whatever, but I'm amazed that I never see disciplinary action against anyone for lying. To me, that's a fundamental part of fiduciary responsibility - to tell the truth. I'd like to see the SEC focus on nailing a few...

Add a new market data column in TWS called "Gap%" that indicates the current market compared to the most recent close (i.e. yesterday's close during the pre-market and RTH, today's close after 16:00 ET): If Bid > Close Then (100 * Bid / Close) - 100 Else If Ask < Close Then (100 * Close/...

I'm guessing that this is a pretty straightforward legal issue related to whether the commission shown on the confirms for 44 days is binding over a verbal contract or not. Pay a securities attorney for a proper legal opinion. Do yourself a favor and leave all the other stuff (comparison with...

What kind of news? YM is the mini-Dow30 contract. I doubt you'll find news specific to it that isn't related to the DJIA.

"ping times for order executions" doesn't really make sense, which is why you probably get variable answers.

I don't know about the general case, but a lot of SMART routers ignore BRUT some/all of the time because it has routine problems with stale quotes and they also display (short-sale) offers that cannot be taken when the market is crossed or for uptick-rule reasons. It seems that some people do...

I'm amazed at how many people didn't read/understand the original post. Wait. No I'm not. I would object to the requested change, unless it's made configurable, as I'd like my BP to remain available as long as possible without having to stop what I'm doing in the middle of the day to request...

This says it's 10 days after receipt.

AFAIK, there is no need for another status. If you send a cancel, the status either goes red or pink. Red orders get cleaned up and disappear automatically if you configure TWS to do so. If an order stays pink for any significant period of time on an electronic exchange, there's a problem. I...

Not to mention the significant difference in components since then. Silly index.

What purpose would that have? myTrack shows OHLC of 11729.18, 11908.50, 11506.42, 11722.98 I'm guessing that these are based on their real-time-calculated value, not the 15-second (or whatever) DJ-disseminated ticks.

1. I don't believe it's reasonable for an active trader to have to verify that he sees every order go red. I don't have to do that with any other platform. It should only disappear if cancelled. I thought TWS had become relatively stable as far as reloading it's idea of current order statuses...

If a broker gives you an "out", you're entitled to rely on it. They should have either not confirmed the cancel, or stuck by their word.

As usual, I land somewhere in the middle, if anyone cares :) If you cancel what appears to be a live order, and IB gets anything but a cancel confirm from the exchange, the status goes magenta, and the order stays on your screen at least until you log out and back in, and usually until the...

Anything more specific? Remember that some stuff is not reported (like equity options).

I think I ran into it yesterday with a long sale. If you know the exact time, I can look at my ticker and tell you exactly what happened, but I believe, if INET is displaying an offer, ARCA is still able to come up and lock against it with a bid if it has it's execution link to INET disabled...

intrade.com and other online bookies usually have some interesting geopolitical prop bets.