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The token has a PIN required to activate it properly. Enter the wrong PIN and it still activates but it produces the wrong replies. Lose the passcard (or just have it copied unknown to you) and the security it provides is gone. From a protection standpoint I like the 100,000,000 challenge...

I haven't seen the passcard but by combining some posts from elsewhere here on ET it would seem that the passcard is about the size of a credit card. It has a list of numbers from 1 to 224 on each side. Each of those 448 numbers has an alpha-numeric code assigned to it. IB sends two 3-digit...

If I recall correctly IB does not send the time with quotes. Time and Sales is different. That time is from the exchange server I believe. Because IB does not send the time IB charts build the bars based on an internal TWS "clock". QT also adds the time locally when it builds the bars...

"Essentially say" is correct. It is the way they are written - If you read them carefully you'll see they do not say there is no increase in latency, just that the link is good for your purposes. This is from \42 (not on your list): Anything less than this is showing a possible problem, but...

BGP = Border Gateway Protocol AS = Autonomous System Really beyond the realm of ET users. You can probably Google this but it more for ISP's and large scale internet users (corporate networks). Not us simple types. Jack

Bernard: Think of the internet as a series of different streets connecting two points. If all the traffic lights are green you get there at the speed limit. If there is an intersection that has a light that goes from green to red and back to green traffic slows. You get there, but more...

Absolutely.

Most ping tests use very small ping packets. They simply show round-trip time to and from the pinged location. The test does not show packet loss. If, during a market day, your link experiences packet loss, your effective link speed decreases. This is a result of the TCP/IP protocols the...

Realist: What was the cause of your problem? Jack

"Accounts opening with less than $10,000.00 add $1 Per Side to the below rates." So that's $8 R/T. One assumes you need the low intra-day margin because you have little equity. Probably not a good way to go as you'd be tempted to maximize your leverage and blow out in a day. They...

The Discount Rate is the rate at which member banks may borrow directly from a Federal Reserve Bank. The Federal Funds Rate. The interest rate that banks charge each other for the use of Federal funds. It changes daily and is a sensitive indicator of general interest rate trends. The...

Kiwi: You are correct. TLS 1.0 was publicly acknowledged as being compromised. The current standard, 1.2, has not been publicly compromised. Jack

Unless your ISP is your email provider I think the only thing they record is your connectivity to various IP addresses. Use of Anonymizer will provide protection after you go through them. However, the only protection you have between your location and the anonymizer site is the Secure...

From the TWS Help: Using IB Server Global Settings You can elect to use either locally saved settings or "global" settings, which are settings you save to the IB server to ensure all of the modifications you make to your TWS environment, such as adding pages and contracts, changing the...

IB provides "real-time" charts and historical charts. Real-time has a one year max. The historic have, I believe, a ten year maximum. You must activate the Historic chart feature. Remember TWS does not work on Saturdays or early Sunday. Jack

Try the Plus and Minus keys

Here is the notice: IMPORTANT MARGIN NOTICE Effective Monday 6 August, and until further notice, there will be a significant change in the intraday margins for most stock and index futures. Specifically, the intraday margin will be set to cover a price move of 4% in the instrument, but...

Fourteen is more than adequate if the 14 are not something easily found by a "dictionary" attack. That is, you've not chosen something like "establishments". Use non-real words or combos like "NYse16aSE/\a^" My example is a little extreme but a combination of uppercase/lowercase and special...

The world is not ending. The attached is a comparison of some of the major averages since the 1st of the year. CSSGX is a Fund that tries to track the IBD-100 (and doesn't do well in that attempt) Take a look at the February correction. Jack

For one account? I doubt it. The Challenge sent to you for login is based on IB's security server knowing the key embedded in your token. As you are aware each token is unique. Your token will produce only one Reply to the Challenge. I guess that Secure Computing, the company supplying...