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Yeah, that is true. I don't remember the details, but I'll try to look it up. The general rule I remembered though was "if you hold it overnight, don't daytrade it the next day". Let me go see what I can find...

Quicktrade is right. If I trade with one eye constantly fixed on PNL, I focus on the money, and not on trading right. Focusing on the money (and what it represents to you, how hard you worked for it, etc.), whether it's positive or negative, tends to lead to bad emotions (greed, fear, anxiety...

Wow - thanks for the post.

Hi All, I suppose this should maybe go under Futures instead of Trading, but it seems more people read Trading. In any case, Background Info: I've been trading in various ways for a few years, but professionally (for someone else) for only 3/4 year. Most of the time at work I am...

Thanks Def.:)

Hey Def, Thanks for your message. Before I respond, let me just say I'm sorry that my recent posts have had a rather derogatory tone towards IB. That's not productive, and does not really reflect my overall opinions about IB. On the whole, I am extremely happy with IB, and I have...

Perhaps it's a change to not promote more direct competition with their parent company, Timber Hill?

It's funny you mention buying at the bid when clicking in IB's TWS. I asked about that once by email - about having the bid price and bid price plus a standard price improvement (probably 1 cent), when you click on an offer to place a buy order. But they said they didn't see themselves adding...

Any recommendations for a good backup?

Agreed - IB's quotes are not worth a whole lot. If you've looked at anything with any real volume (example: QQQ), the quotes are wrong continuously. I guess you can say that they show numbers in the general vicinity of the actual market. Level II on IB is a terrible ripoff. Go anywhere...

I'd like to start a long flaming thread about IB's customer service that would create such a big stink, that they would actually improve it a bit -- But that probably wouldn't be productive. But what really matters is this: When there is a real problem, such as unable to access the system...

Does the program make the trades, or direct you to do so? How will it/you deal with a fast market?

What do you mean by "hidden optimizations"?

Does anyone know how to get this on either REDI+ or IB? Thanks.

I think you're only supposed to download the DLL if you use the web version (of TWS), but not the installed version.