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I spent 2 years, pissed away about $50K in bits and pieces (thank goodness for real jobs while learning), and didn't really go for seminars or expensive books (maybe that was the problem, but I doubt it). I probably learned most of what it took to be successful from thestreet.com*** and other...

I'd appreciate any discussion on how to read these. I try to (or am forced to) play these sometimes, and they seem to be really inconsistent. Sometimes, with a big sell imbalance for example, the first indication will appear to be too high, and then come down a couple times before it opens...

I've attached a list of just under 4000 stocks. It's comprised of the major indices, sector indices, and all stocks on which options are listed. I process most available daily changes each day (S&P news, Naz/Amex dailies, CBOE/AMEX/PHLX new listings, etc.), and catch up on stuff I missed, the...

I'm guessing he meant that imbalances less than 3000 shares are not reported. I don't think there are any restrictions on minimum size of on-close orders, except maybe they have to be round lots. I think the official media for publication of the imbalances is the DJ newswire. That's the only...

Several people have made statements to this effect, but I must be missing something. Consider the following two scenarios. (To make things quick, I'm ignoring the existence of labor laws and any other presumption of terms in the absence of writing, since all of that varies widely. I'm sure...

As others have said, the last order ID that the TWS saw is stored in the <JTSHomeDirectory>\????????\user.ini file, in the DdeId item. In my spreadsheet, I simply keep the last Id I use in a specific cell, and have my order sending function get its IDs from: Public Function GetId() As Long...

I've had (and reported) the same problem, so I can't use the alerts. I feel as though it would happen when I configured more than a couple different alerts, or maybe when "something" happened at the same time as my trying to cancel the alert. Who is using alerts successfully? Please post.

"Size kills" - jdt (keeps me from building big, losing positions under the guise of "scaling in")

My $0.01194556 ($0.02 less ECN fees): If you are to be an employee of any company, anywhere, you are entitled to get a note, letter, MoU, whatever that offers you a specific job, usually with specific compensation details, and reference to some sort of "company policy" document. There doesn't...

This caught my eye. Do some firms do this to make their capitalization look adequate (when it might not otherwise be) for some kind of month-end SEC or exchange reporting they have to do?

A little more info for you: There should be a field on your market data line that gets populated with a formula that looks like the following when you request market data for the ES 200206 futures contract: xxxxxxx|tik!idyyyyyyy?req?ES_FUT_200206_GLOBEX This field should normally...

January, 1999 I buy 3 puts at $3 1/2 ($1050) at the money on some internet company (don't even remember which - maybe LCOS) prior to earnings coming out the next morning. They miss by a bunch, more than I expected. Yippee! Opening of the option is very delayed (like 15 minutes) as the...

All this comparison shows is that "something" will likely happen when volatility (albeit of the wrong instrument, but fortunately somewhat correlated) makes new lows, since it's likely to increase again and the underlying instrument (i.e. the NDX) is likely to move in a more volatile way. I...

FWIW, BZH is no longer shortable at IB. I'm pretty sure that it was available a month or so ago. Sounds like it may already be getting shorted heavily, but is holding up well apparently.

It works fine for futures.

I just thought it might be related. It comes up occasionally because I modify an order that Excel sent to TWS manually because I want to move the price, and it's faster than waiting for Excel to see the reason for the change, making the change in Excel, and waiting for it to get sent...

Does this happen only when you change the stop price, and not the limit price? An annyoance cropped up a couple releases ago, where if you hit Transmit on an existing order without having changed it, it just turns light blue. You have to actually change the price to get it to change back to...

Based on what I've heard from interviews with former IRS auditors, I still contend that IB does a dis-service to its customers by reporting differently than every other broker. From what I've heard, returns get "kicked" to a human for examination based on an "audit score" generated by automated...

Can you be more specific please?

Is there a particular reason you want to use the phone? If not, and you're talking about using it in the U.S., consider a wireless PDA (like the Palm i705). Palm's minimum plan used to be $10/month. If your broker doesn't, I suspect one of the free realtime quote sites on the net has a Palm...