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I run TWS for 15 hours every day only restarting during the 4pm break. Heres a slightly related question about restarting TWS that I didn't think deserved its own thread, Im hoping someone will be able to answer it. I placed a Limit order on Globex to buy a calendar spread, one time when I...

what ever happened to blue btw?

I remember once upon a time IB Reps used to post answers on ET.. what ever happened to that?

keeping it simple. do you scale out while losing and scale in while winning? or vice verse? the tapwater analogy would suggest one is superior to the other based on my intuition.

i recently thought of a tapwater analogy. imagine you were trying to fill up your sink with hot water (profit). you know a single tap fluctuates between hot and cold. say you turn on the tap and it starts filling up with hot water which slowly turns to cold, do you turn off the tap and wait till...

Given that you now have the ability to lock in the curves for trades. Do you think the current EUR/GBP would have broke the trend based on the original curve when the position was entered?

I meant say that the second market order would for a different security. not the one bought with the limit order.

whats charle's account up to now?

Hey. I was wondering if anyone knew how to submit a limit order through IB and have a second market order be transmitted as soon as the limit order is filled (if it is). Is this possible with IB? Also will the market order be held / sent from TWS or from IB's servers? I am looking for the...

"pretentious" 239 . now thats surprising.

why do you tade 1:1 leverage? if you are profitable at 1:1, you'll be twice a profitable at 2:1. i guess it depends on your max drawdown size.

I could really go for one million tacos right about now.

I was responding to the statement "I wouldn't expect Oanda to ever offer any currency pair which they can't instantly hedge." doesn't make sense to me if oanda operates as I would expect of them. hence my question about them hedging. Does anyone know that they actually do this or why they do this?

oanda has to hedge your position? if other clients and the banks arnt taking the otherside, the trade shouldn't be going through. whats oanda doing?

I've been debating the pros / cons of adding / removing liquidity when entering a position which does not need a guaranteed instantaneous fill. Say you are buying something, you can either set a market order and get it at the ask price, or you can put a limit order at or a bit lower than the bid...

when are they going to offer the iraqi dinar? id imagine that price pair would have a lot of volatility.

fungible from my understanding just means you could buy a stock on NYSE and sell it on ARCA etc

apparently if you have rich parents.

say I make 100$ on a position. i could close it and secure that 100$ or I could set my trailing stop 100$ away and let it go with the trend. the exp profit of securing is obviously 100$. the exp profit of trying to go with the trend might be 50%*0$ + 50%*500$ (or maybe more) = 250$. someday i'll...

i tried doing this using fungible US stocks through IB. kinda made money on the paper account. lost money on the live account. oh well.