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I believe your number 1 above gets you the money without the 10% early distribution penalty. But you pay tax on it. You cannot transfer it to an IRA while still working for the company. You cannot put periodic distributions from the 401K into an IRA. To transfer the money to an IRA just...

Just in case you were wondering this morning. Jack

Overnight session currently 65 points up or down. It is adjusted quarterly. See: http://www.cmegroup.com/trading/equity-index/files/EquityIndexPriceLimitGuide.pdf

I have seen the TWS time get behind the PC system clock. It will do this on initial TWS start up and sometimes when I start another program that gets its data from the TWS. It self-corrects and syncs with my system clock within about 10 minutes. The TWS clock being off will affect your TWS...

I'd call IB. But before you do remember that their margin system is more or less real time. There were some rather dramatic moves today so you may have triggered some auto-liquidation. If you don't hold many issues I'd look at their individual charts for today and see if they might have...

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Before you bother looking at the link in the previous post - You've got to buy a $1,100 add-on package as well as subscribe to Trade Ideas to use the package. If it's worth it go to it! JackR

Better yet, as IB's "US Securities & Commodities Non-Professional Bundle Includes all Stock, Options, Futures and Bond markets" why not just put the Russell in the bundle? If the approval process blocks futures quotes to non-approved traders the problem is solved. Perhaps I'm missing...

At this time the ER2 (Russell 2000 futures contract) is included in the bundle. The Russell is moving from GLOBEX to the ICE later this month. Depending on who you deal with at IB you get different information on what you need to do (or not do) to continue to get Russell futures. So be...

Go here: http://individuals.interactivebrokers.com/en/accounts/fees/commission.php?ib_entity=llc Go to the the Stocks, ETFs and Warrants tab. Read the info. When you look at the unbundled rate be sure to add in all the other fees to IB's commission rate to determine your final cost...

MadH: In thinking about this - Some routers and firewalls turn off the ping reply feature to hide the system or for other technical reasons. Since you say you have 100% packet loss on your first link I suspect that to be what you are seeing. I'm not a Comcast user so don't know how you are...

Something strange. What about the lines after your connection to your ISP (that's the first line)? Can't spend any more time this AM. Market opens in a minute or so. Probably call Comcast. Jack

Go here: http://individuals.interactivebrokers.com/en/general/poll/ibconsultants.php?ib_entity=llc Accept agreement and when the new page loads select the Order Management Software tab from both the Commercial and Freelance Tools tabs. I'm not a Tradestation user so I don't know what it...

He was playing on-line poker the way I read it. Jack

Download PingPlotter. Look at the very bottom of the PingPlotter page for the freeware version: www.pingplotter.com PingPlotter will show you latency and packet loss. Packet loss results in the retransmission of the missed packet(s) by the Transmission Control Protocol (TCP part of...

Did you pay income tax on the $2M? It is kind of hard to believe that that high a revenue stream did not get flagged somehow. Perhaps the IRS will be sending you a letter in the next year or so. Assuming you have about 1/2 to 2/3 left be prepared to pay at the 39% rate plus penalties and...

IB does not provide streaming time and sales. The last message I saw on the subject (from a IB rep) said they had no current plans to do so. IB's data is transmitted every 100 milliseconds ( or in a few cases every 300 milliseconds) and always transmits the most current price at the time of...

Port: You believe there is a 5 second delay in IB's quotes. Here is a way you should be able to see that there is no delay. Tomorrow at 8:30 AM EDT (12:30 GMT) the Department of Commerce will release some Personal Consumption figures. The core PCE Inflation\Deflation number often moves...

Adding to jeb's list: 1) The type of data feed (tick-by-tick or Interactive Brokers style) 2) Level of DOM data feed included 3) Charting software provided 4) Stability of intra-day margin requirements and when they start and end 5) Broker's margin policy 6) Initial equity to open...

Intraday margins are established by the brokerage firm you deal with. The exchanges have no intraday requirements. That's why you'll see ads saying $300 margin per ES contract. That is only for day trading. Overnight futures margins are established by the exchange at which the future is...