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IB rates haven't changed in some time. Since you mentioned <300 I assume you are referring to Futures. Which futures? Bundled or unbundled rates? Take a look at this page - http://individuals.interactivebrokers.com/en/p.php?f=futuresComparison&ib_entity=llc If you are thinking of...

Your brother is correct. He'll be overwriting the Vista and doing a fresh install of XP. However, to do the job correctly you need to get the drivers (ask your brother) for any specialized components that might be installed on the machine. The drivers are for things like an ethernet port, the...

Interesting question. I'm sure you don't need to format the hard drive as I had one fail and used my Acronis image to write to a new out-of-the-box hard drive installed in the old machine. Everything worked fine. However, Gnome's comment about motherboard/BIOS interaction is interesting. I...

There are basically 2 USA time zones used for trading. East Coast (New York) (ET) and MidWest (Chicago) (CT). CT is one hour earlier than ET. Thus, the NY Stock Exchange opens at 9:30 AM ET, the Chicago futures exchanges such as the CME open at the same time but report the trades in its local...

Your provider does not guarantee 16 Mbps, that is just the top speed. The pingplotter software I mentioned will graphically display the latency to each router between you and your broker's servers. By watching the display you can see where packets are dropped along the way as well as where...

Nic: What did your office use to connect to the exchanges - an Internet connection or leased lines? A leased line is very expensive and just runs between you and your broker or an exchange server. No Internet. Any Internet connection is a shared resource. A cable connection is...

Let's say IB periodically does a credit check on all its retail accounts with one of the credit rating firms like Equifax. Say the credit rating associated with an account has gone from whatever IB considers satisfactory to a really really bad rating and payment history. Say the account in...

Definitely not getting the full story from Sivashad. There appear to be at least two accounts involved. Here is an extract from any earlier (2/16/08) post: Dear ***vash, RE: IB Account UXXX635 From his his latest post: RE: IB Account U338132 As Whimsy said - Just ACATS the...

Fisho: Go here: http://www.pingplotter.com/. There are three versions. The freeware version, located at the bottom of the screen is good enough for what you want. Download. Run against your IB server and the Italian broker. That will allow you to calculate the difference in latency...

IRA margin accounts may never borrow, but are afforded all the other benefits of a margin account such as the ability to day trade. The three day settlement rule does not apply. You may sell and buy using the proceeds just as if it were a margin account. Pattern day trader rules may or may...

It is exceedingly difficult to synchronize your computer to any standard via the internet. Using a program such as D4 (http://thinkman.com/dimension4/index.htm) you can get a time sync from any of the world standards available via the internet. However, the length of time between the...

I don't believe IB has any delayed feed. IB's feed is a data-sliced/regenerated real-time feed. The feeds for the paper account and the actual account are both produced using the same data gotten from the exchanges and ECNs. However, they may or may not match depending on the rate of change of...

OK - Your example really meant your actual return month over month was XXX %. You'd then adjust it for the annualized LIBOR rate so you'd lower the return by about .4%. Jack

Is this a trick question? 5.622% Jan 01 LIBOR 3.000% Stated Return after LIBOR Adjustment = 8.622% Gross return Gross return was 8.622% less the LIBOR if I read what you asked correctly. Jack

Glad you think so. Dakota dos not backfit. A number of Dakota users who have a local user's group in my area discussed publicizing Dakota or keeping quiet about it and not giving away an edge. You'll note I've never mentioned it here on ET. However --- Carl Cook, the CEO of...

There must be some programmer at IB who knows how this will work. I guess we will find out tomorrow. I basically trade futures so it would be nice if you guys that trade stocks would provide feedback on what actually takes place. Jack

The process to change the law has begun. See - http://finance.senate.gov/Public%20Comments%202007/The%20Clearing%20House.pdf As you can see the industry does not like the idea but it will probably happen, modified somewhat, after the upcoming elections, but possibly before. Jack

NBBO: IB said: On certain exchanges, this may have the effect of subjecting modified orders to commission minimums as if they were new orders. For example, if an order for 200 shares is submitted and 100 shares execute, then you modify the order and another 100 shares execute, a commission...

I've been using Tradelog(TL) for about three years. My primary broker is IB. Everybody knows that IB never changes their TWS more than two or three dozen times a year. TL publishes changes as often as necessary to keep up. TL has simplified the update process since I first started using...

Vash: You can download the IB TWS software and try the Demo free. Go here: http://individuals.interactivebrokers.com/en/p.php?f=tws&p=d&ib_entity=llc Jack