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Yes - that is a known issue. I simply adjust the reported cost for the sale commissions. Since I just report total numbers for each account, it's no big deal.

For the last 4+ weeks, I've had difficulty executing against ARCA in listed stocks after-hours. Using IB, I send the order to lift an ARCA offer or hit an ARCA bid, either direct to ARCA or via SMART routing. In both cases, ARCA rejects the order. If sent via SMART, it then posts somewhere...

In addition to ideas above: - An API that provides full access to all of the available features (myTrack is the closest in this regard) - Some of us need a per-share pricing schedule. Perhaps the ability to select per-share or per-order pricing periodically and per-account. - Good...

Reading some threads here about other brokers reminds me of some of the things that work well at IB, that I take for granted. For me, one of those things is the fact that, almost without exception, my trades exported from TWS match what actually happened, and my statement, exactly. I do...

I disagree. It depends entirely on your trading style. For example, some of the strategies that I trade have very small edges, that are not even possible to implement at many brokers, and are not profitable at others due to commissions. At IB, I make > $100K/year with them. Not to mention...

Someone alluded to shady things going on at ProTrader. Can you be more specific?

AFAIK, you have to be registered (pass the 7 and be subject to an SRO's jurisdiction) in order to trade other people's money, which is what you are doing at a pro firm. For retail daytrading, the 25K rule is the SEC's. You're unlikely to find a brokerage firm that will violate it, at least...

Did you maybe click on a bid in the NQ market depth display? This creates an order in TWS to sell to that bid.

I, too, would like this ability. I did a trade in February that will sting for years...

At the expense of those who trade just a little of each stock during the day. The money has to be made up somewhere. It's the same argument as the $25 cap on a single order - subsidising some orders at the expense of others.

IB has done well by me the couple of times that I needed to ask for a bust, as well as a couple dozen times that the exchanges or contra-party wanted to bust a trade. Even when the exchange had already made a decision, and I explained how that would be grossly unfair to me because I had already...

It's been up at 00:30 (+/- a few seconds) pretty reliably for me in recent months where I've been buring the midnight oil. Tonight's problem is pretty rare. Glad to hear about the coming 24-hour access DEF!

I, too, would like to be able to click on the offer size (instead of the offer price) to take the displayed size instead of my default size.

Unfortunately, sweep or SMART doesn't solve the problem either. If ARCA requires that the order be allowed to go proactive in order to hit another ITS participant, you're out of luck, since IB's orders are marked "passive-only" (as DEF said) and IB has no other way to execute against ITS quotes.

I'll mention that I got the "java.io.EOFException: Unexpected end of ZLIB input stream" a number of times when logging into the browser-based TWS when it needed to load an update from IB. I assumed there was a problem when, in fact, I was just not waiting long enough for it to download the whole...

This is what I've done for about 5 years now. No problems so far. Beware that if you use the ticket number to sort the statement, every few months, if you do significant volume, you'll get a chunk of your trades sorted above the trades that they followed in time because the ticket number...

GATrader: Unless they've re-engineered gr8Trade in the last few months, you won't be able to use it over a 56K dialup. Even if you have some bandwidth, it's not clear how much it will suck up. Perhaps a gr8trade user can comment. I demo'd it for a few weeks, and it would do OK (but see below)...

MACD: Are you sure it wasn't splitting the order into a 1000 share long sale and a 3000 share short sale? That is, did you actually get 4000 shares executed (ever) on a downtick? Some software does this split for you so you don't have to go through the hassle of creating the two separate orders...

Can someone tell me if there has been any real content posted in this thread since the closing of the last one, so I don't have to waste the time to wade through another 29 pages of this banter? Maybe I'm in the minority, but I work for a living. If SE has anything concrete to say, I wish he...

Ditto. The quick and objective response of the market to your decisions is a refreshing change from the drudgery of having to wade through meetings with superiors and employees, only to end up with the inevitable resulting mediocrity of their efforts (at best). I don't agree that this is a...