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No, I was aware of that. I traded futures, the price moved cross my order many times but didn't fill it.

Yes. But the servers are green, everything looks good, just doesn't load anything. Before I restarted TWS, I had been using TWS for more than 10 hours, it was working well. Well, IB is trying to protect us. lol.

I have the same problem. It worked well except trading didn't work (order couldn't be filled), so I restarted TWS, now I can't see any data.

Happens almost every day, I often open TWS 10 minutes before the cash session, and 20 minutes later, it's still loading, but after it's started, it works well. Very strange.

Thanks for your reply. I don't use firewall on my computer, I save the settings locally, something else caused the delay.

After input all login credentials, the splash screen shows up, TWS starts to load up, but it freezes at "Requesting startup parameters" and often takes 10~20 minutes to fully loaded. Has anyone else had the same problem?

I find it hard to scalp trade with TWS, not sure if it's just me. For example, is it possible to setup the following order with Chart Trader? Ideally with a hot-key or one mouse click. 1. Buy (or sell) stop 3 ES contracts. 2. Attach a bracket order of 2 contracts. 3. Attach another bracket...

If you are a profitable future trader, it's every easy to build up an account, even starting from a cc loan. If you are not profitable trader, it's impossible to trade their live account. I don't see a reason to enroll in such a program.

TS sent me an email to explain why my transfer request was denied. They need to make a phone call to verify my identity. Fair enough I guess. I'm not surprised to see those reviews, I wish I had read the page before I decided to open an account with them.

TS declined my 5th transfer request without giving any reasons, email support refused to help, chat support has been offline for at least 4 days, this is amazing.

The liquidation was caused by the difference of intra-day and overnight margin. You question is irrelevant.

I don't think it's because my positions were losing. If intra-day margin for one MES contract is $500, overnight margin is $1000. For $2000 account balance, I can buy 4 contracts during the cash-session, but I can only hold 2 contracts overnight. So, at the end of cash session, if I don't do...

The $50 charge was for liquidation, my account balance wasn't enough to hold all contracts overnight, I thought TS would liquidate without extra cost like IB, I was wrong. The commission of MES is $0.5 per side, IB is $0.47, but they are different if I'm not mistaken, IB's $0.47 includes...

I tried that (option 3), it failed. :( I didn't know how good IB is until I tried other brokers, everything is easier and cheaper. You can see how frustrating it can be for a simple task like wire transfer.

Anyone had experience transferring money out of TradeStation? I want to transfer all my cash from TradeStation to IB, all my requests were declined due to "insufficient fund". Assume I have $3K in my future account. I have tried the following 3 options, all failed. 1. Select "All available...

Hi @backtrader, thank you so much for taking the time to explain things in details, I'm sure it will be helpful to other people here too. Now I'm more determined to go with Python. Cheers!

Wow, thanks a lot for your comments, GAT! Very glad to hear the insight from one of the creators. Just downloaded IBBridgePy.

Currently I'm looking at these frameworks, may select one with a quick glance. IBridgePy zipline-live QTPyLib pysystem trade backtrader PyAlgoTrade

Thanks, I did create an account with TradeStation, also checked out MetaTrader5 and AmiBroker, they are all seem to be good options. But I don't want to go the easy way, I think Python is the best option, especially there are frameworks that can help me get going quickly. I was a long time...

Many thanks for your reminder, gaussian! It never occurred to me that my account could be compromised, that's definitely something serious. I'm completely new to Python and trading-related programming, I really want to have something running asap as I have dwelt on selecting a platform for too long.