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The first time you use help, it downloads the file from the server, which can take a while. Personally, I'd prefer it to be made an optional part of the distribution, or be given the alternative to download it during installation instead of first use.

The first time you use help, it downloads the file from the server, which can take a while. Personally, I'd prefer it to be made an optional part of the distribution, or be given the alternative to download it during installation instead of first use. This behavior is several versions old.

Welcome, Jay.

That doesn't really make sense. Reality is that, in thinner stocks, it's harder to find a natural counterparty for your trade, particularly if you're going with the trend (breakouts, etc.) instead of against it. There's no magic bullet. You either have to pay up/sell down or wait. Based on...

What stock, exchange, and time of day? If you're talking about MSFT, which trades 50M shares ($1.4B) a day, there's almost always 2K shares ($54K) available at the inside market, meaning no slippage for a market order. If you're talking about B, which trades 234K shares ($11M) a day, most...

Thanks for the taking the time to home in on my exact issue :) They are apparently confused. FWIW, I don't see any other j*.exe processes, and IE clearly should run the Sun JVM if it's installed anyway (which it does for any other java applet). Not really my field, but I looked closer at the...

I'll mention that ib.biz is not currently registered.

You need to ask your broker. Some do not pass the fees through correctly. Some give you the worst tier, regardless of whether they do enough volume for one of the better tiers. Search for "fees" on the individual ECN sites for the definitive numbers. I've probably posted the links here at some...

I hate doing this, but... "bump". How can one be running a Java app without any sign of it in the process table or java cache?

If you look at the "University of IB" menu on their website, you'll find a lot of useful stuff, incluing "interactive tours" of TWS.

To put a finer point on it, with USD LIBOR at 4.75%, the rates look like: IB: 6.25% (<$100K) Assent: 6.5% (<$50K?) MBT: >= 8.45% Scottrade: 9.75% (25-50K) E*Trade: 9.74% (<$50K)

I'm at 853.7 from October. It's stable for what I do, and I can live with the quirks I know about. I'd like some of the new features, but I have better things to do than go through a testing/fix cycle. I hope there won't be a need to update any time soon. This has nothing to do with IB - the...

Why? Do you think it's easy to set up shop in dozens of countries, hire/train people, set up data/exchange/banking connections, deal with some truly insane regulatory bodies, and somehow manage to be competitive with the "old boys club" environment that exists in some of those marketplaces? I'm...

I believe INET still allows a violation of the short-sale rule in that it will allow you to short down to the previous closing price (or perhaps a tick above it when that price was not a 0+ tick), as long as it does not cross ARCA or BRUT, regardless of the SHO-list category. BTW, BRUT...

I'm talking about the web-based account management system's trouble-ticket system, not TWS.

I was reporting a problem with the trouble-ticket system at IB and was told to upgrade my version of Java. I don't see the java VM (javaw.exe) running in my process list, don't see any applet related to it in the java cache, and looking at the source of the pages, it all seems to be HTML and...

The strong hands that are left (I'm feeling pretty lonely about now) :) I'll be waiting for y'all down around 10. Nice to see it not go straight up for another day (so far) :)

Quote from 2gtt: July is 13 cents above May - a bit on the high side. So, being short, this is a good time to roll, right? Or is there some risk of a correction in one more than the other against the cash based on what happens on FND (and beyond)?

Any comments on the roll that's coming up? May FND is 04/27. Is that, like other commodities, the day people start rolling in size, and should that yield the tightest spreads? I see that there's already some volume and OI developing in July.

I don't think they're pointless. I'd bet that the vast majority of the people reading and posting such questions are not "big accounts". That's why I didn't bother with the >50K/100K tiers. Anyone who's routinely carrying a debit balance might benefit from seeing that there are places out there...