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After the first withdrawal (of any kind) in a month, IB charges the following withdrawal fees for any subsequent withdrawal: Base Currency USD Wires $10 Checks $4 ACH/EFT $1 Are you doing more than one per month? That might explain your problem if they take the fee out of...

IB says: "Interactive Brokers is offering our premier customers protection using a state of the art security system at no cost. " I don't know how high a "high balance" must be to be a premier customer. There is no charge for the program. However, they will earmark $150 that will be...

One of my tokens stopped working (display went haywire). I called IB. After answering a bunch of questions to prove I was the account holder they issued me a response to input to the challenge. It worked fine for the next few days. I subsequently got the new token device and the regular...

Here is an extract on the LinkSys WRT159N router's firmware update: Linksys- A Division of Cisco Systems, Inc. Release Date : July 11, 2007 Current Firmware : 1.01.9 Product PartNo : WRT150N ver. 1.x Ver #. Description...

There might actually be more than one reset - one for the quote servers and one for the account servers. I run a program that ties to TWS and I typically get a number of different error messages. One set is something like: "Market data farm connection is broken:usfarm", "Market data farm...

Have you already established a second account or will you trade the US exchanges via HK? Jack

I doubt it. The coordination of margin availability (or cash) between servers prior to allowing a trade would be difficult and would certainly add to the delay in entering a trade. It might also result in IB's magic margin fixer closing some positions if the two users got the account into...

US Server. Note the "Packet Loss". This can cause a slower connection time than indicated as the network must request that the packets be resent.

This a bit off topic but it may help - I've attached a screenshot of my IP path between the Washington, DC area and IB's Hong Kong Server. In my next post I'll show my path to the US Server. The utility I use is called PingPlotter. The version you see is the paid version. They have a...

IB could probably write a simple (if there is such a thing given their system) algorithm to review all holdings of the stock within their purview. On the eve of the ex-dividend date transfer the stock loan to an account that holds the loaned stock but that does not hold it as a "qualified"...

I think all margin accounts have a "rehypothecation" agreement allowing the broker to lend your stock. I believe they receive payment for such loans. I've never had to pay a "stock loan fee" when I carried a short overnight. I guess the borrowing broker makes up for the fee by the interest...

A non-trader friend of mine bought CSSGX. He tells me the fund does not buy and sell every CANSLIM selection and provided some sort of rationale for the early dismal performance. He also says they are recovering. Use the link above and change the time scale to 3 months and 6 months. Not a...

IB's Friday statements are never ready on Saturday on Options Expiration weekend and are normally available late Sunday. It must have something to do with the way they internally process option expirations/exercises. I suspect that's the reason for the message you got. Jack

Most employers of "white collar" employees have a policy allowing "reasonable" use of the employee's company provided computer. Somewhat similar to the use of your work phone for the occasional telephone call. Your employer can monitor your computer usage, content, etc., if they so desire...

I run Booktrader on two machines during the day, one on a real account and the other on a paper trading account. I have book data from the CME (ES) virtually all the time on the real account. It is almost never there on the paper trading account. THe current bid\ask value and size is always...

Unless they've changed their policy there is no charge. There will be $150 debited/withheld from your account if you do not return it when you close your account. Jack

By design the response may contain only the numbers 0 through 9 as well as the letters A, C, E, F, H, and P. As you can see there are no letter "O"s or "S"s. You do not need to capitalize the letters when you enter them into the response window. Jack

If Frosty were to post a daily chart (screen capture or exit and entry points in a short table) showing his entries and exits we could really come up with lots of ideas. He would not be revealing his actual approach to entries and exits but a discretionary trader could look at the trades on...

Did a quick Google search. This is from a NASD Study Outline: Prohibited transactions Self-dealing transactions — prohibitions and exemptions Class exemptions for certain broker/dealers and registered representatives It implies what you want to do, as an individual, is...

Wash sales are as I defined them (the IRS info). You are adding in "self-dealing". I haven't a real clue. I thought it was illegal but perhaps AutoMate's answer is correct. Jack