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You can also use the website for Wealthlab (www.wealth-lab.com) which has the ability to do daily EOD scans of your portfolio (which you can define). I think they use Yahoo data however, so user beware (plus you need to rewrite your TS script in Wealthscript, but it's not that difficult). SSB

You can make up as many profiles as you want....but I've been told the limit is 10K of data (I assume as XML since that's how it's stored). If you go over you may get your profiles wiped out (this happened to me). Note you can't "assign" a default profile by symbol, but you can name them...

An LLC is a limited liability corporation. You can use it to pool money for trading, just be sure you set it up correctly (hire an accountant and/or an attorney). I used Green & Company to set mine up, they did a good job and the total cost was around $900 ($400 of which was state fees). You...

I would add that even with a plain vanilla broker adapter and real-time data adapter WL is not completely stable for autotrading -- I often have to completely restart it if I stop the data feed for whatever reason. It doesn't work with WL Pro because the broker API was removed -- why would...

As I said, if you want that ability you need to pool the money into an LLC. <i>This is sucks</i> Show me a broker that can do this. If you are trading futures without enough capital to scale in/out appropriately maybe you need to explore other trading vehicles until you have enough...

In the end each position needs to end up in a single account. So you can't buy 1 futures contract and split the gains/losses over multiple accounts. The only way to do that would be pool the money into an LLC or similar entity then have that entity do the trading. Then again maybe you can...

If you want a long term position without much risk why not buy a LEAP option? Most options traders lose money, but if you're certain you'd tie up significantly less capital in an option than buying the same stock. SSB

Another option, albeit not the best -- if you realize you have a huge ratio, send a few market orders through (one to open, then one to close). That will generate the volume you need to avoid the ratio, and you might lose a tick or two (you also might make a tick or two). I'd rather take the...

1. Get it working with FA accounts (so allocations can be tested properly) -- it's available for FA accounts but the papertrading account is not an FA account. 2. Work out the bugs with stops filling. Maybe it's already been fixed, but I've seen a bunch of posts on the IB message board...

There are a few books on this topic. I haven't read them, but you can view parts of them via the search inside the book feature at Amazon. Sometimes the commercials are right, sometimes they're not (maybe they're hedging, who knows). Also be careful in those futures with multiple size...

I lost quite a bit as a discretionary trader....not all that much but more than I should have (most of what I made I gave back). I started system trading and my only problem has been overconfidence and increasing position sizes too fast -- also deciding on the proper allocation to each...

I've used WL developer for years and I think it's great, but it's not perfect. I also use Tradestation which has it's strengths (fast optimizations) and weaknesses (it's like pulling teeth to handle multiple positions). WL can easily handle multiple positions and can be automated, but WL Pro...

I don't know the answer....but why not try it in the papertrading account?

TWS will fire an event with the server time upon connection. You need to store the offset from your own PC's time (or set your PC to match it) -- TWS won't send times with events. SSB

Sorry I hadn't subscribed to this thread...doh! So I missed your questions.... Also try joining the twsapi yahoo group. There's quite a bit of code posted there in Java (which in many cases easily translates to c#) which is useful. SSB

Look at the trusted connections option under the settings. It lets you specify trusted IP addresses/hostnames that will not give you the prompt. For example "127.0.0.1" and "localhost" are good ones to populate. SSB

I just want to clarify this statement above. The actual trades are done by logging in under the FA account, but the funds used for trading reside in client accounts. You cannot trade with funds in the FA account (they're only used for market data subscriptions if required) and will need a...

Just have him open a sub-account (either punch in his info or just email him the forms to print and fill out) and fund it via an account transfer. SSB

This appears to be an issue on their servers, I'm guessing someone wiped them out by accident with some kind of server reset. I checked and you can use the VB demo in the API to get the XML text, so I backed it up to a text file on my PC. Next time they wipe out my profiles I'll have them...

Has anyone had this happen to them? This morning I opened TWS the same as always, an automated order at 11:00 AM failed for trading permissions (that was the audit log error). I finally figured out all the allocation profiles were gone (I'm apparently not trapping all the correct API errors)...