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Why not have a backup broker and use their price feed as your second feed. IB is good as a primary or backup broker and their snapshot data feed is guaranteed to be different from a tick or throttled feed from another broker.

Your stops are too close. You have to place stops outside of the noise levels in the contract you are trading.

You mean someone like Jérôme Kerviel. If you speak French, why don't you give him a call?

Is "fixed income equity" a New Age term for preferred stock?

A few questions. Futures commissions are stated at $0.10 a side - are member or nonmember exchange fees charged? Is the balance of the capital contibution returned when leaving the MTO? Is the $1000 monthly fee shown on the annual K-1? Other than low commissions, what does the $1000...

quotes.com has free delayed futures charts http://new.quote.com/us/futures/indices.action

It is a 2024 maturity and is an auction rate bond with a failed auction. Don't consider buying these unless you want to own them until 2024 or until the auctions stop failing.

Quarterly tax payments have been due on the 15th of January, April, June and September for decades.

Safe and high yield contradict one another. The yield on T-Bills is so low because people are willing to pay to be safe.

If you receive a Form 1099-B from your broker you have to file a tax return with Schedule D to account for the stock sales. If you don't file a return the IRS assumes a cost basis of zero for the stock and the stock sales total as 100% profit.

All of IB's data is sent as a snapshot.

My TWS has been fine. Might be a problem with your ISP.

I can't tell by looking at a chart if real trades took place or if the chart shows bad data. Your broker should have access to a complete time and sales report for every stock. Your broker has to tell you if real trades took place at the spike price(s) and if the trades stood or were busted...

Go to bigcharts.com and look at 10 day and 5 day charts for CCO. There are multiple days with spikes up or down at the open. Use the "ADVANCED CHART" option to look at Monday on a 1 minute basis. The high at the open looks like 20.26 and the low looks like 19.51. Your broker has to answer for...

If you gave the stock symbol someone could look at the data and perhaps answer your question.

Thanks for the video. Old time advice with old time music.

IB tells you the minimum charge for unbundled is $0.70. From the "Notes:" "3. For US orders, USD 0.7 minimum per order, only the bundled fee structure is available for Non-Smart Routed API orders."

When it comes to the very greedy New York State the tax laws are not so simple. From the New York Times: Telecommuters Not Exempt From New York Tax By MICHAEL COOPER Published: March 30, 2005 LBANY, March 29 - Commuters from out of state who take cars, trains and buses to jobs in...

I also dislike the new statements. IB already has the software for the legacy statements, so they should just keep running it.

IB data doesn't lag on ES (or any futures) because it is a snapshot every 100 milliseconds. Never gets bogged down during important news releases. If you need every tick, then the IB data feed is not for you.