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You are dealing with three different things: 1) Day Trading Margin. US rules allow a person whose account has a real value of greater than $25,000 (US) to "day-trade" and obtain a 4x loan value (25% initial margin). You must exit the trade at the end of the day. Be sure to read IB's rules...

Texas: Try this thread: http://www.elitetrader.com/vb/showthread.php?s=&threadid=177611 Jack

DownUnder: I'm not sure what "no longer provide support" means - IB's servers will not interface with earlier versions or IB's crack customer support staff will just tell you to get the latest version of TWS and to use the "so-called" browser version as well to ensure you always have the...

FYI: From the IB TWS Release Notes: Effective Friday October 30, 2009, we will no longer provide support for versions of TWS lower than build 893. We encourage customers who use the standalone version of TWS to upgrade to the latest production version, currently build 899. Jack

If the firm only deals in futures they only have to comply with NFA. If they do stocks and bonds they must be part of SIPC and are also regulated by FINRA. NFA does not provide any insurance. Futures can actually cost you money if another customer or the firm loses a lot of money and cannot...

Ian: But the "devil" is in the details. There is still something strange with your computer clocks not being in sync. If both Sierra packages were running against their respective PC's clocks and both clocks were synched to the same internet time source, the charts should have matched...

The RS has "... automatic voltage regulation (AVR). AVR instantly adjusts both low and high voltages to safe levels, so you can work indefinitely during brownouts, saving the battery for power outages when you need it most." The CS does not have AVR and will probably switch to battery more...

From IB at 17:30 ET. At 15:14 Friday (New York time) IB's primary Internet service provider suffered a partial system failure that caused some users' Trader Workstations to disconnect. Because of the complexity of the outage it took us a period of time to determine the optimal failover plan...

I lost connection and brought up PingPlotter. It shows lots of network rerouting taking place and very high packet loss. The national telco carrier(s) must be having problems. This is still going on for me here in the Washington DC area as of 4:29 ET. The Verizon DSL trouble line is...

Interesting. I bought 4 APC units in early 2005. One 650 VA and three 300 VA. All are still working fine. There is no country of manufacture marked on them so I assume made in USA. I wonder if they changed manufacturing facilities. I also have a rather small capacity unit in the basement...

Ian: Probably just have the same problem on the new machine. I'd reinstall the operating system on the laptop first, but that can be a task if you don't have the correct drivers on-hand when you do so. If you'd answer my questions on what charting software and whose datafeed someone here...

IanM: I don't understand how you can have a different number of setups between machines running the same charting package. I can understand one showing the setup delayed by X seconds as compared to the other, but doesn't the lagging computer show the same time (on its screen) for a trade...

Kicking: First thing you need to know is what your operating load is. That is the draw of your system once it is up and running. Then you need to determine whether you want to keep trading or just do an orderly exit. You also might want to consider a reduced capacity approach , that is...

The search function on their web site is pretty good. It is a small box under the log-in box. Type in bundled or unbundled. Also be aware that IB is very unforgiving of errors. If you become a customer immediately open a paper trading account and trade there. Although their interface...

Here are the Paper Trading Account reset instructions - Account Configuration/Paper Trading Account Reset All customers will start with USD 1,000,000 of paper trading Equity with Loan Value, and this equity will fluctuate in the same manner as production accounts. You may reset this...

Almost all of the "Sell" times shown in your attachment seem to be intraday, not the close time. Are these limit orders or market orders? How does the TD Ameritrade simulator handle each type? Jack

Can't you extend your backtest to cover the preceding two years? If it still shows huge gains and those gains also occurred during the decline you almost certainly have a future leak (peeking ahead). Find some stocks which have not recovered from the decline. Look at financials like PMI...

Oliver: Take a look at all the standard index ETFs (SPY, QQQQ, etc) as well as the Dow, NASDAQ, and Russell from November 2008 to date. Up!. Now go back to Nov 2007 and look at the same symbols - Down! Backtest your strategy against the same issues from November 2007 forward and see how...

Psytrade: Amibroker brought out a new IB interface (beta) last October but I haven't tried it. Have you tried it or was your experience with a predecessor? Jack

Not speaking of WealthLab, but AmiBroker and Neuroshell both provide an interface with Interactivebrokers' Paper Trading account via IB's API. IB's paper trading account is virtually identical to its live system. I have not tried AmiBroker against my IB account but have used a Neuroshell\IB...