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Craig66: The reason I asked about back-testing vs paper trading: 1) Backtested results may or may not be over-optimized and do not deal with real-time data. Depending on Wealth-Labs' design there may or may not be distortion of the results caused by WL's handling of stops versus buys and...

I'm not a user of Wealth-Lab as I am not a Fidelity customer. So I don't know whether you mean "paper trading" or back-testing. What are the results based on? Jack

What do you mean by system? Does it run and give signals or is it you looking at very specific this and that's without need for interpretation? Both are systems. What has the system done? You do have records, don't you? You've got to follow your system once you think it's ready. A...

FYI - From the Trading Patterns Web Site: 08/10/2009: Important announcement. Tradingpatterns.com will cease retail license sales and all technical support operations on August 21, 2009 at 5:00 PM EST. I understand the web site will remain up for a while. There are some interesting...

Early on, when IB was getting most everybody "tokenized", they had three different methods of securing your log-in. I think they worked this way -- 1) The printed card which had reply codes to use versus challenge codes sent during log-in. Each card has unique codes and the IB security...

Call Customer Service. After answering a ton of questions they will give you another login method good for a few days and send you another magic card. Jack

JFK to MIA is about 948 nautical miles. JFK to LAX is about 2148 nautical miles. You say prospectus says JFK/MIA can be done for $76. Thus, $76/948 = eight cents per nm. You say prospectus says JFK/LAX can be done for $300. Thus $300/2148 = fourteen cents per nm. You can see the same...

Nitro: If you mean the CBOE S&P 500 Implied Correlation Index I'd say there is a good chance that IB has not added it to their "product" list yet. CBOE began publication last Monday, July 27th. ICJ and JCJ work on the CBOE site. I'd do an IB Customer Service Ticket asking about...

The demo account is not real-time or even real data. The account is good to learn the features of the TWS for new or potential customers. It can also be used to test automated trading systems interface functions (or your Excel spreadsheet) using IB's API on Saturdays and Sundays when you...

Can't help further. That NYBOT/ICE lack does seem strange. I don't hold futures overnight so cannot see an example in my account. The paper trading account does not provide a margin report so I couldn't experiment there. Try a Trouble Ticket. Jack

nravo: Try this - Open your account from within TWS using View - Account Management. Then open Report Management - Margin Reports. Margin reports will show you each issue you hold, Initial Margin, Maintenance Margin, and Margin %. Jack

Hayman: I can't help with your Excel question but from a recent IB notice to customers: Deep Book data allowances have been changed to coincide with market data allocation, which is determined monthly based on commissions. Based on market data, the Deep Book data allows a minimum of three...

Bob: Kostia00 said: " The margin requirements are reported on the following web page: http://www.interactivebrokers.com/e...n&ib_entity=llc . Please evaluate the margin requirements in your account according to this list as it overrides the default model of 35%/50%/70%. If you find an...

99: As far as I can tell IB shows the P&L based on first-in first-out rules. Thus your overnight holds would be used ( or intermingled) to compute the P&L shown. You did not provide enough info to provide a definitive answer but - If you have a margin account the net sale amount (amount...

Bob: The Margin Report seems to be incorrect in that it does not conform to IB's published margin computation methodology. . As you said, even though IB special margin requirements for your bonds are under 100% (except WM) IB is keeping the entire portfolio at the initial margin requirement...

Bob: What does the Margin Report show for the same account? In particular, the Maintenance Margin and Maintenance %. Jack

Bob: Your screensots show three bonds. If I read the Special Margin list correctly the: "F" bond is for USL Capital Corp - they show as 50% long maintenance margin. "MFCCN" is for John Hancock Life Insurance Co - they show as 35% long maintenance margin. "SLMA" is for SLM Corp -...

Bob: Sorry my analysis was just for US Bonds in IB's special margin list. As I indicated above, more than half the US bonds remain at 35% long margin. Have you checked your bonds against their list? It should match the numbers that you see in the Margin Report I mentioned earlier. If it...

Bob: I missed the "Special Margin." I see someone posted reference to it earlier. As I previously posted, I don't trade or invest in corporate bonds. It appears that every bond in the world is in IB's special margin list. I scanned the list. There are, as I post, 1,277 "special...

Bob111: If Customer Service has informed you correctly -- Very poor performance on the part of IB's management. My guess is that someone in their risk management structure decided things looked bad for bonds. Then they noticed that their auto-liquidation program could not run if there no...