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I should clarify I meant pit brokers ... not all brokers. I've never had a good fill in the pit..... That said this is your own fault.....you need to understand how the markets you're trading work .... most traders get nailed in the beginning when they're trading a new market (or an old...

All brokers are crooks -- everyone knows that. Please don't post obvious facts as if they were news. Next you'll be announcing the sky is blue..... :p As a note differences between the pits and the screen occur all the time and are normal -- they're the result of differences in liquidity...

Salvatore, There have been a ton of back and forth posts about this in the TWSAPI Yahoo user group. You should consider joining (it's free you just need a free yahoo account) to check them out. Some were suggesting a USB dongle, as well as other ideas. SSB

What about ol' faithful? Become a broker and front-run your clients' orders.....

buy low, sell high

Read over the information on traderstatus.com as well as on Green's website (greentradertax.com) for more info on MTM and trader status. Note that if you miss the deadline you can still form an entity (such as an LLC) and file within the entity. SSB

I couldn't find a response in this thread so I asked a CSR via chat if all the client sub-accounts of my friends and family FA account need to get their own STP devices and I was told they do. Can anyone verify this? My grandfather needs to get one of these for his IRA????

My first google search came up with nothing, this time I found this: http://www.entrepreneur.com/money/taxcenter/article159458.html Which says I need to file a form 7004. Also the LLC lost money last year, not sure if that matters (don't think so -- it seems you need to file for the...

It's a two member LLC

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Dumb question -- I have an LLC I use for trading -- I already filed my personal extension -- does the LLC need to file it's own form 4868 under it's tax id number? Obviously this is my first year filing with the LLC....:confused: SSB

I think we need a separate forum for that. Or maybe two or three forums? :D Then again if they had one, we'd need at least five times that for Tradestation. And don't get me started on fills at TD Waterhouse.....or mutual fund trades at Scottrade....

I experienced a similar fiasco trying to get a small amount (I can't remember how much ... maybe $5000) transferred. I changed the wire instruction, then changed it a second time which apparently froze the account. Fine, not a big deal, definitely my fault. It took over a week of calls...

FYI: The following is done in jest -- please do not take it seriously :p :p On the IB poll they currently have five classifications for status: - Voting in progress - Implementation in progress - Implementation Scheduled - Feature Implemented - Suggestion Declined I'd like to...

Simple -- they have a monopoly. If you want to trade their products you need to subscribe to their data. However, now that NYMEX is also listing softs (albeit with no volume) and they no longer have a total monopoly, and now that they're on ICE they are supposed to be lowering the fees (if I...

Definitely takes longer to load. This weekend I'm going to set up a simulation on a backup PC and let it run and gather quotes all next week. If it runs for a week without losing quotes a single time I'll upgrade my "production" machine. SSB

As a follow-up, John from IB (who had previously requested my logs) left me a voicemail today and emailed me about the issue. Kudos to John! I was able to re-create it at will with 864 but submitting the order, closing TWS, then re-opening TWS (upon re-open the RTH checkbox is now...

Oh my goodness you're right! If you're not having data problems, nobody else must be. Thanks for clearing that up! You should tell those people in New Orleans it didn't flood because hey -- your basement is dry! Again you're right. Absolutely amazing. Were you Sherlock Holmes in your...

I just voted now. We'll see if they implement it. For the record I finally hit my limit and got sick of getting shafted by ridiculous IB bugs. Sure maybe they fixed the RTH bug (or maybe not) but I can't upgrade my TWS because of the market data bug they introduced in 865 and still haven't...

How come IB couldn't tell me that???? Jim come on -- didn't IB already say they'll implement that? Either way IB is the way they are and I don't think my poll vote will change it one bit. Maybe that will change when they're a publicly traded company -- maybe not. Look how many people...