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    Cash stolen from thinkorswim accounts, any advice?

    I consider Interactive Brokers to be about the safest financial institution when it comes to protecting client funds from theft and potential losses other than ones own investing or trading mistakes. I think most of such rumors about IB are started by IB competitors.
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    Variance Futures

    They do have a good rate on the commissions for $50,000 account; However, they have no decent free platform and no bargains on the platforms they offer. I wonder if an individual gets the institutional rate at the $250,000 ? That level starts to look very good.
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    Penson sent 1099B by email

    I think an e-mail notice for the account holder to log onto their Penson account to download or print their tax documents would have been the proper solution.
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    QuoteTracker

    I think the QuoteTracker web site has all that info.
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    How much cash is safe to keep at one broker?

    I can tell by your great selection of questions that you will carefully come up with the best answers for your own risk tolerance. For my self, I assume any cash balance over 100,000 is exposed and the amount of risk exposure depends on the broker and the clearing firm where the funds are held...
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    IB Midnight reset taking 10+ mins?

    I am trading 5 nights a week 10:00PM to 4:00AM. I see a less than 1 minute reset a 12:00AM and this is some nights followed at about 12:15 by about 1 minute where the column and row lines of my TWS page turn a pink or purple color. I have not tried to place an order during purple line phase. I...
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    IB Midnight reset taking 10+ mins?

    My TWS resets at 12.00 AM EST and is back up in about 20 to 80 seconds.
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    Ibkr

    Peterfly has sold a small percentage but if he sells out all of his ownership, I might look for another brokerage house for my IB account. I have had several brokers and banks, where I have had accounts, sell out and it has most often resulted in a down grade in the security of my funds and...
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    best antivirus

    http://www.av-comparatives.org/ Avira (not free) or Avast free edition
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    Stock Tax May Reduce Volume 90%, Interactive Brokers CEO Says

    That all makes sense. Just what you would expect when the leadership is a bunch of socialist/communist control freaks.
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    Stock Tax May Reduce Volume 90%, Interactive Brokers CEO Says

    If this tax proposal as written passes, there will be a large exodus of all sorts out of the US and I will be among them. There are plenty of countries that will be glad to get the financial markets that the US losses.
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    best linux platform w/ multiple terminals

    Which standalone TWS would I need to download from IB for running within linux: Unix, Mac, or windows?
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    TD Ameritrade denied margin application, any suggestions?

    TDA could care less if you loose your $5000. They are only protecting TDA from a potential law suit from a client who could be damaged by the loss of their limited funds. When an applicant overstates their application with lies, the broker is sort of off the hook on liability. I see little...
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    Software to manage multiple accounts

    I have used Captools Investment Software for years. I think it supports what you want to do. It is primarily used by brokers and financial institutions for keeping clients records but is also used by some traders.
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    This board and the whole site is degenerated to an IB board

    Best broker service at the best price equals a large customer base. IB wins in all three of these categories. I define the best service and best price as the system that makes me the most money in my trading.
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    Which Broker to Choose?

    You got great advice and made the best choice. I
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    Will TD ameritrade offer futures, forex post ThinkorSwim acquisition?

    Well, that all sounds like we will not see futures trading at TDAmeritrade until TDA can clear the futures trades. The "mid-late next year" time-frame is likely to turn into years or never.
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    Will TD ameritrade offer futures, forex post ThinkorSwim acquisition?

    Any thoughts on how long it will be until TDA will be doing their own futures clearing?
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    ib issue 12-01

    That was the first thing I checked. All other data feeds and trading platforms on this PC plus other PC's on the internet connection were working OK. Just TWS that was logging off every few minutes. TWS connection OK now.
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    ib issue 12-01

    I have been having TWS disconnects every few minutes since 12:00 AM EST. IB,s system status says their have been no reported problems.
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