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They could start with the obvious injustice of allowing some participants to trade at sub-pennies while others cannot.

Great. I do it exactly like that. I hope the tax authorities understand that is the correct way to do it.

When you translate the profit/loss of future contracts to another currency, do you (1) use the FX rate on the day you realise against the net profit/loss? Or do you like stocks (2) multiply the FX rate on the contract value the day you open the position and multiply the FX rate on the contract...

At least you can use your loss on equities to offset tax on you FX gain. I can't.

I suppose it is only for US residents?

At the bottom of the Realized & Unrealized Performance Summary section. Here you see the end result. But you have to change your base currency to GBP first. Or you can draw a section called Forex P/L Detail and see the calculation line by line. Be prepared for many lines. 30,000 lines if your...

If Forex gains/loss is taxed in your tax jurisdiction, you need to calculate it and report it. Luckily IB does that for you, if you choose the currency of your tax jurisdiction as base currency. Both direct FX trades and indirect = when you trade stocks in a different currency than the currency...

I do not want to be arrogant. But can you imagine anyone of thousands of traders have tried your 3 rules systematically over the years? If yes and the rules worked, the profit will disappear. Hence, very simple rules are unlikely to work.

Arbitrage keeps the ETF price in check.

Jim Simons

Do you know if you can buy the underlying bonds on IB and the ticker?

Thank you.

I know nothing about fixed income investing. If I want to invest in EUR government bonds, which are the most liquid 2-year or 10-year bonds? What are the tickers on Interactive Brokers? (I live in a country where fixed income is taxed at 42.8% but you can only deduct 20% in case of a loss...

I don't know that function. I use Bloomberg so I am not into the Refinitiv lingo. Sorry.

Isn't there an more straightforward way to deal with Nasdaq requiring "@" and NYSE "U:" before the ticker to request data than this: https://datateamoftheeur.wordpress.com/2016/03/31/us-tickers-to-datastream-mnemonics/

Wauu thank you! Do you know the universe of the screen?

To find out which stocks have the highest correlation with a particular stock.

Have you heard of a stock correlation screener? Input: Stock ticker Output: Highest correlated stocks over some period

... not to be calculated based on a draw of volume for each day but as a pre-defined historic variable? Average volume for stocks that is.

A lot of data to handle across 100,000 entries. I found out how to do it using BQL.