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If it trades overnight 1 pip slippage won't be enough -- you can get slammed quite a bit overnight. During the day it's probably a valid slippage setting. If you're trading forex (and not currencies on CME) then also be prepared for some of the crap those brokers pull (I've never traded...

Whether you get it back up or not, for the future consider: 1. Norton Ghost or a similar imaging program (Acronis Truebackup, etc). 2. Online backups : http://www.systemrecovery.com/ SSB

To answer some questions, you need to make multiple requests to the API to get data over longer time periods than one week. For example IBData2 (www.finantic.de) is capable of doing this but right now will only be usable from wealthlab. However it's not all that difficult to write you own...

I've never had a problem getting weeks worth of 1 minute data from IB (note it takes multiple requests to get it). Maybe his problem is with Ensign? Just beware sometimes the volume is WAY off....

You should have called the thread "Avoiding death" -- it's just as likely :D

I'm still using TWS 854.7 from December -- I won't be upgrading until I'm forced to. I got burned by an upgrade and it cost me about $500 which wasn't a huge deal (it was over several accounts) but isn't a thing I want to repeat. I would upgrade more often but there are way too many...

Remember it's a negative sum game when you include commissions.....if you trade with IB or elsewhere where there are very low commissions it's not so bad but if you pay $15 a pop like at optionsxpress it can be a big hit.

FYI I did some google searches today and found out how to do it. You need to run a program from the PDA called WModem.exe (it wasn't on my start menu -- I had to use the file explorer to find it in the windows folder). Then after you connect it to the USB cradle it will "discover" the new...

I have a Windows Mobile 5.0 PDA (Verizon XV6700 a.k.a. Audiovox 6700) which through Verizon has full internet connectivity over their EVDO data network. I have unlimited data, but the screen is of course very small so when I do remote desktop even though the connection speed is super fast, it's...

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I don't charge fees so I can't say for sure, but my un-educated guess would be simple 1099 income for the fees. I'm not sure about percentage of gains though. Best bet -- contact a CPA. SSB

In Wealthlab limit order slippage forces price to trade through the limit price (not just at it) for a trade to be filled. Since there's no way to be sure if a trade will be filled if price just drops to your limit price and reverses (sometimes it will -- usually only for losing trades though...

Does tradesignal have a way to export the data? If you can export it to an ASCII file you can then run it in Wealthlab and see. Also are there slippage settings in tradesignal? There definitely are in wealthlab, but are they turned on? What about commissions? SSB

From my understanding they need to print it and sign it, then send it back before the account is approved, then they can transfer the funds. SSB

Get another source of data. If you're using Yahoo data you'll get nailed...their data is practically made up. Sign up for a free trial with QCharts, ESignal, etc and get some better data (not that it's all that wonderful from those vendors either, but it's better than Yahoo). SSB

Read about the fees here: http://www.interactivebrokers.com/en/accounts/advisors/advisorWrapFees.php?ib_entity=llc SSB

Not directly. There are several applications that will do it, if I remember correctly TradeBullet, TradeBolt among others. There is also a free program from some guy in Italy too. SSB

All my sub-accounts have my first 5 letters -- I think that's just the way it works. I never thought anything of it because my clients are all family members (same last name).....

You will need to add accounts using the add account link. Once they're set up and approved (but not yet funded) the users can transfer a regular IB account to the sub-account using account management in the regular IB account (under transfer there's an option to do this). SSB

It will be interesting to see if esignal can get the QCharts symbols all listed in one place. It's been years since they starting having the root MR for the e-mini Russell but never listed it on the website.....