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So, like, none of you realize that most business are small, and that most small businesses (and ALL large businesses) are started with borrowed money, and most of that money comes from friends and family, and that ALL OF YOU are engaged in A BUSINESS called "trading" or "investing." Man. {head...

Well, first: this is all digital -- 0s and 1s. And it either (therefore) works, or it doesn't -- right? Wrong. The "how" is that TWS is so involved, and for that matter, modern computers are so involved, that one little mistake "back in the day" that would've frozen the whole business, now...

Individual legs to a spread: Yeah: *always* a struggle. If you're not in any hurry, not so bad. Or, if "the spread book is horrible in liquidity or depth..." But mostly, just a waste of time. (I love the phrase "time-sink". If you're bored, have fun. If you're busy, Jeez, the crappy spread...

You are using a factory-fresh McLaren to go get groceries. You have no complaints, and can't conceive of any. Congratulations. Motor on! (Oh. But if you take that thing anywhere near a track, or anywhere near 200mph, "factory fresh"? You're gonna die. And it will be *your* fault.)

With respect, individual leg' prices very much do matter. The thread earlier covered the fact that if you get whacky prices for individual legs, if (and when!) the time comes to exit or adjust, you are faced having to deal with those whacky-priced legs as individuals (or as verticals), and no...

#click bait. 1) tell what you know -- what you have tried -- where you have looked -- and your imagined eventual purpose *specifics*.... 2) ..... I don't know! Let's see number 1 first.

I have a pile of rags in my garage that neighborhood cats fight to pee on the most often. That pile of rags has more smarts, and more class, than you. That is all.

Yup! Saw that here, too. All of a sudden (on a 6-core, 8gig machine), the cursor lags, the video hiccups, the charts go black...... AND the orders STALL.

Yeah. Been doing that for years. UNFORTUNATELY.

It was the former "Contract" -- some IDIOT decided that a two-syllable word didn't do it. NUMBNUTS. Need to be FIRED. (No, not being humorous.)

You just SO described my day. You know, in the past 5? years, these "updates" have lost most of their harmful effects.... (But, going away from that 949.3d was a cryin' shame.....EVERYTHING was perfect there...) But this morning's?? My poor eyes are darting all over the place, trying to assess...

I'll confess that the decrease in vol bums me a little bit... AND that I don't think the market is pricing the political floppitude appropriately. So, small vol means the top gets crappy pricing, and while you're waiting for reality to hit, the bottom gets pricing that'll be swamped at that...

You are booting from the server, where your last save, of course, says, "use/store settings on server". You need (I *think*) to download TWS to your HD, and set that up as your boot. Then, your entire set-up will exclude IB's server set-up. Why do they do this? Well, we have three ways to...

1) THANK YOU. 2) My understanding is that the "new" IB Python API is in fact a Pythonic wrapper on C++. Is this wrong? I have not built anything yet, but have only shopped. I did FORTRAN ancient years ago, and have carried Lotus 1-2-3 joy into OpenOffice Calc, and was looking to...

Yep! It's time to take the quarterly Whoa_They_Updated_What'd_They_Monkey_With_Now Tour. I just tried to get some economic events, hit the button without result three times. The fourth got it. *Don't* ask me why.

On second view, what you're saying is so obvious, and yes, it is just *whacked* that such a useful, AND EASY TO CALCULATE number can't be obtained on the Trader Dashboard OR on the Account window, ferchrisake. I even, *faintly*, recall such a beast...... under the name Change From Prior Day's...

The response you quote (I think) describes the thinking that brought him to post his question, not where he's at right now. (and per your solid response in part, too!) At any event OP, the situation you found yourself in (with a fairly priced IC, but with individual legs that appear...

Yeahhhhh. Yeh. Yup...... I just squeezed the SPX into a fairly tight 1yr/daily mapping, and "magnetic" works pretty well there, too. "Stair-steps" but works pretty well. And it's where I'm laying, too. (Well, you know -- above the top, below the bottom...) But I *still* feel, as we approach...

Well, he went long, and now writes of "rolling", so yeah, there's two clues right there. (IMO.)

We didn't rally on Trump. We rallied on 1) The End Of Election Uncertainty, and 2) Unified "Republican" control of House, Senate, and White House. *{subject to a historical limit} 1) means that certain companies benefit, certain companies may be impinged. 2) means that, until serious idiocy...