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I think a better definition of a black box program is one in which you have no idea of how the trade signals are arrived at. Compare this to a gray box where you are given some idea of how the box arrives at its signals, e.g., a moving average crossover setup control, triggered by a rate of...

I think you'll find you are stuck. One thing to consider before you move all your accounts under the FFA umbrella - If you are one of those guys who trades but does not generate thousands in commissions for IB and you monitor close to 100 different issues and indexes - With each separate...

There are many posts on this board about Timber Hill and and their relationship to IB. Both are owned by the IB Group. As has been explained many times, IB (brokerage) routes all orders to the best bid/offer. They go to Timber Hill if the Timber Hill quote is the best or matches the best...

Poll: http://www.interactivebrokers.com/en/general/poll/poll.php?ib_entity=llc

Perhaps Option Trader never noticed that you pay to buy and you pay to sell. $0.75 + $0.75 = $1.50. It is the rest of the comment that is confusing. If you gross $0.05 on a single contract that is really $0.05 times 100 or $5.00. $5 less $1.50 equals $3.50. If you just gross...

Look at your audit trail. It can be found under View on the top level menu. You should see a "Cancel Order" entry when you entered the cancel and that should be followed by a Cancelled entry. If the Cancel is there IB will probably get things straightened out. Also see the thread below...

How is that done in Win 2K? In Win XP? Is there a special utility? Jack

Kevin: I think IB now sets the audit trail to run as part of the default setup. Go to View on the top-level menu bar and you should see two Audit Trail choices. Select the Condensed version. The audit trail you want is from last Friday. What you will probably see is today's (Monday)...

Jorge: Did you get an email explaining what happened? It would be nice to know why they felt they owed you the money on the bogus trade but elected to close your account. Did they tell you they were sending the account balance or do you have to request it? Jack

SideShowB: As I said - what I stated was my take on what I was told, so you may very well be correct. I did speak to Pro Services. I don't think I asked which account would get hit, just how the charge was to be computed under the new rules. I know I was told that all fees came out of...

IB recently changed their fee structure. As I understand it the $30 a month minimum to avoid the $10/month fee for the standard data feed still applies to a normal account, but - In a Friends and family account each sub-account causes a $10 fee to be debited against the advisor account. The...

I think you have to look at the time frames involved. The Vanguard 500 existed 5 years ago but if memory serves there were no ETFs. I haven't looked at ETFs vs. the index they track but they should underperform over the longer term due to the management fees. VL ignores commissions and...

VL does not publish drawdown. You have to do it on your own. If you are a subscriber it is fairly simple to do it on a weekly basis. Just extract it from the on-line version and dump it into a spreadsheet. Attached are the results for the past 5 years versus the Dow, the S&P500, the...

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If I recall from another older thread with regard to IB data and trading interconnects - IB has uses a different set of servers for the "paper-trading accounts" and has a number of server farms floating around for real accounts. Jack

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Maverick: Remove the HD and take it to work. Ask the IT guys/girls if they can hook it up to a spare machine as a second drive, obviously not on the network. It is a simple task and depending on your company's rules may or may not be allowed. Can't hurt to ask. Jack

If you have a second computer remove the bad? HD from your Gateway and install it in the second computer. I am assuming the second computer has only one HD. If the problem with the Gateway is either the HD or the HD controller you should be able to "see" the bad? drive. Copy your data...

IB made a recent change you may or may not be affected by depending on how you split your funds between the two brokers: Jack

To simplify - The tests that cover the normal IQ range can have answers to questions that a very bright person might find relatively easy [and in a poorly designed test they might find two correct answers depending on the logic used]. This tends to bunch the scores of such people. The advanced...