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Someone please help with this. I am getting conflicting information regarding Refco’s futures customers’ accounts. My understanding was that no futures customers ultimately lost any funds but now I’m hearing otherwise. My searches on this reveal much conflicting information from posts...

Thanks Bsulli for that additional information.

Thanks again ddunbar, I get it now. I made too many assumptions in my transition from pit trading. Best regards, JP

Thanks for another good explanation, but I’m still missing something here. Why can’t a stop be a stop? What’s the problem? I know the risks. When I place a straight stop-loss order I am not placing a stop-limit order. So then why do IB and/or CME change my order to a limit order? If...

Thanks again ddunbar and alamn, and sorry to pursue this further but I need to get this straight and you’ve both been a big help. On a related issue, I’ve been trading the large SP in the pit a long time with another firm and recently moved to IB and switched to the mini ES. When I placed...

ddunbar, thanks, that’s exactly what I was asking about and your thorough explanation clears up everything. Much appreciated. But I’ve been trading long enough to know that the market doesn’t ALWAYS come back, so do you know how I would place a “true” market order?

Are IB Market orders completely filled immediately at more than one price level if needed? It appears that when I placed a futures Market order for ES it received a partial fill at the best available price getting all of the contracts available at that price, then the remainder of the order...

K is correct.

I need the ability to place a stop order that will be activated automatically relative to a fill price.

I know how to place a futures Market order using TWS’s “Good After Time” order. But is there a way to also place a Stop order a certain defined distance away from the market at that future time for ES on Globex? For example, if a GAT Market Buy order is set to execute at Noon, and the...

I am trying to find a Web service where I can enter any trading date going back a year or two along with a futures symbol (for example, ES) and pull up a 15 minute bar or less intraday chart for the lead contract on that date. I don’t necessarily need the data; I just want to see the chart...

If you want to trade the pit, X is as good as any. They handle all order types with aplomb. For electronically traded contracts, use IB if you know what you are doing.

Excellent Rhymes, thank you for that.

eLindy is right.

Trouble with IB’s Trouble Tickets I asked a straightforward question using an IB Trouble Ticket and received a reply a day later that clearly shows IB rep “johnw” didn’t even read the question. There needs to be a way to forward a Trouble Ticket question and answer to an IB...

I too may well move from ES to the Big Dow. But I may move back to the CME if they "e" the big S&P 500 contract while keeping the tick size at 0.1.

You think you would get “banned” if you mentioned the name of a broker you felt was better? If you don’t mind my asking, what country are you from?

http://www.interactivebrokers.com/en/accounts/secureTransactionProgram.php

Thanks, I did that. I have not yet received a reply but I see that they now have corrected the date from 2005 to 2006. However, the videos and audios still don't match-up. But I guess we'll call this progress.

Dear IB, please fix this: Your Website video of the January 13, 2006, Webinar recording entitled “Interactive Charts” is significantly out of sync with the audio. And, to a lesser extent, so is your January 12, 2005, recording “TWS Enhancements.” (Also, you should correct the date...