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IB has a 1099C substitute composite form that lists net futures gains/losses. I don't know if the numbers on the new report are included in those numbers or not. SSB

Just got this email from IB: <i>We have recently created a special profit and loss statement for your 2005 Futures Options. The profit and loss was not included on your original 2005 annual statement so this information will supplement what was already provided. To view your 2005 Futures...

daily (or weekly/monthly) data is free. You only get access to intraday data if you subscribe to the RT data feed. Of course you can subscribe for a month, cache the data,then drop it. SSB

I think you need to fund the advisor account with a small amount of money to cover potential market data fees if you don't have the $30 in commissions. I was also trading my own account so it wasn't an issue for me. In their accounts there should be an option to close the account and...

It would seem to be. Note there are some differences however. For one combo orders can only be done one account at a time. Also you only get one quote stream by default (and a second one in the papertrading account). But you also then have only one minimum $30 commission limit to meet. If...

Each account is funded separately. I'm not sure what you're asking...but if you're asking if clients fund their own accounts the answer is yes. You can also set up their funding info and request deposits and withdrawls. For a client to fund their account they need to log into the account...

The PDT rule is applied by account. So if you have under $25K in an account you will have your daytrades restricted. In your case the account with more than $25K can do as many daytrades as it wants, but the IRA under $25K can only make 3 daytrades until they clear.

I don't think there's any volume in ethanol -- maybe that's why you don't see quotes? Check the CME page: http://www.cme.com/trading/dta/del/delayed_quote.html?ProductSymbol=ET&ProductFoiType=FUT&ProductVenue=G&ProductType=eng

You can also go to Iran.....:eek:

Load task manager, and kill the processes one by one until it stops.....

You can also buy puts....

Check out the 100s of published systems on the WL website: http://www.wealth-lab.com/ SSB

Can anyone recommend good software at a reasonable price you can use to track your futures trading? Quicken is OK for stocks but with futures it chokes. SSB

They don't....can I do a wire?

Has anyone ever tried to see if it is possible to wire funds from one IB account to another (when a transfer is not allowed)? I just opened a new account and don't want to have to bother sending the money back to my checking account and then via check back to IB.... SSB

You were trying to open a position, correct? So you didn't actually lose any money, only potential profits. Not quite the same thing. Sh@t happens, fills are busted, there's nothing you can do. Especially when you're pit trading. From what I understand it's not uncommon with pit trading to...

I just went to try my papertrading account under the FA umbrella and I discovered it's not an FA papertrading account, it's just a regular papertrading account. This is almost useless....I can't test the proper allocation of shares to sub accounts like this. Even a single sub-account would be...

I should add I feel safer with IB than the average broker because of the auto-liquidation features.... Nothing is 100% certain in life except death and taxes, but it decreases the odds of IB going belly-up becase of customer losses. SSB

SIPC doesn't have enough money to actually insure your account -- the end result is that their protection is worth what you pay for it....zilch. IF SIPC was to somehow make good on a large brokerage failure then it would take years before you saw the money. End result: don't put all your money...

Even if the website was wrong, as others said if you knew the order wasn't filled, why didn't you just place a market order since that's what you were expecting? As def said you might have been able to get them to make up the difference.....but to not make the trade then expect to be fully...