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I feel like I’m in a kindergarten. Kiwi man, you win. Your daddy is stronger than mine! Geez… I think most of you missed the point of my thread. I just wanted to hear about people who had a position during IB’s down time and unfortunately couldn’t get out and lost money... As...

Wayne - Thanks for the info. RL - Point taken. I'll make sure to choose a better title next time :) kiwi_trader - Thank you sooooo much for that. DH - Give money back... Are you serious ? JackR - I send my stop & my target with my order (braket order) so I expect them to be executed...

Bigpipn - What makes you stay with them ? RL8093 - "If you're not an IB customer...". Not true. I said in my first post : "I would also like to hear about people with a different broker who have had similar problems and the way their broker handled the loss." -> Different broker rwk -...

lol indeed. Maybe I need to put in a joke or two to bring some interest. Okay, so here's one : Two eggs, a sausage, and a pancake walk into a bar. The bartender says, "Sorry, we don't serve breakfast."

It never seems to amaze me how much views a thread like : Why are traders ugly and fat? 3222+ views Mine, which can potentially cost you a lot of money : less than 200 views. Makes you think...

After IB's major shutdown last week, I contacted IB and asked what happens if you lost many as a result. They told me it was solved on a case-by-case basis. So I'm asking, to those of you who had a position during the crash and lost money because of that, what did IB do about it ? I would...

Thank you all for your responses. hoodooman : thanks for the link ! That pre-market HeatMap is pretty cool. Aok : good comments, thanks for the screenshot :)

Don, thank you for your interest but you did not answer my question. I know I need to use a market scanner and I do use one. Question : List1 : scanner ran 1 minute before open to find gaps List2 : scanner ran 2 minutes after open to find gaps Will List1 EQUAL List2 ?

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I usually wait about 10 minutes after the open to build a list of gappers (stocks that opened higher/lower than previous day close) because I only traded them later in the day. Now, I would like to trade a few minutes after the open so I need my list of gaps much earlier. If a stock gaps up...

I would like to thank all who took the time to actually read & understand my question and actually write a possible solution to my problem. You guys are why forums are so great ! For the rest of you who are on IB's payroll, the only thing a can say is : Give me a break ! And also : Get a life...

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OldTrader - thx for the additional info. sprstpd - Yeah, I guess I will have to play with the different stop behaviors. One thing I don't get is this. How can a stock trade outside of the Bid/Ask prices ? Is this always because of badly reported prices ? Take a look at my T&S for IMML...

sprstpd - I agree with you but I didn't know any better. I never even considered there could be a different way of handling stops. Lesson learned that's for sure. "Just so you know, IB put in the double bid/ask stop trigger method for Nasdaq stocks to eliminate the possibility of being...

stock777 - I always use mechanical stops and always get out of my trade with an average of 0.01$-0.03$ from stop-loss price. This is true for me for stocks of 20$ to 60$. I like to send my stop-loss with my entry order. That way, once my position is filled, my stop is automatically sent with it...

Thanks for your replies. Here are my answers to some of the replies (the rest following soon…) : pdwst33 - thx for the info. I definitely agree with you and I think you would lose a lot of money if you didn't cancel your order and resend like you said. I had my orders do that a few times in...

Htrader - Actually, it's a bit more complicated than that : ...the default trigger method is the double bid/ask method, where two consecutive ask price (bid price) values must be less than (greater than) or equal to the trigger price, and the second bid or ask must have greater size if it is...

That's so true pdwst33. I really feel helpless and IB's tech support can surely give you an ATTITUDE about these things when you ask. They even closed the chat session after a while because it apparently exceeded the maximum time allowed ! Talk about good support... Did you guys know...

Very long, I know, but trust me you will probably learn something very valuable that could save you lots of money. Read on... I usually get good fills on my stop-losses but today I got horrible exit sell prices on both of my trades. This is what happened on both of my trades : I was...

nazzdack, "Generally, the small losses and small profits offset each other. The remaining large profits comprise your entire profitability." At some point, I was cutting my losses really fast which limited my drawdowns. The problem is I was also cutting big winners. The end result was the...