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it depends on your strategy, i assume you dont care if the market makes large moves as long as the liquidity is intact - which means bid/ask spread. In that case what you said would work, something like below. I think when shit hits the fan, it's best to use the most simple monitors as...

I do think you got fucked by IB, but seriously WHAT IS THE BIG DEAL of posting your EXACT positions + cash at the time of liquidation. 1) IB already knows who you are 2) Noone here knows who somedudetrader is 3) By blanking out your account # and post your exact position it will not risk...

IBj, maybe you can answer this since noone in ib seem to provide an answer. This is purely for info. the issue of liq engine unbalancing a hedged option position aside, why does it auto liquidate es mini options in afterhours when there is extremely wide bid ask spread instead of waiting...

Well yeah the holy grail is always be able to isolate vega/iv completely with net 0 gamma/theta, but that will never happen. If your numbers are right, you made a play on high iv betting if the spot goes against you and gaps up iv will drop and offset most of the naked call losses that was...

christ...i was hoping greece will be a bear stern, with lehman still on deck. But looks like EU will try to shut it down now. 1 trillion is a lot, not fighting this one....

seriously if you just want to trade or get a blackbox, goto dell/hp and buy a $1000 i7 desktop and you are done in 5 mins. All this building your ultimate pc is purely masterbation for the computer geeks, it adds nothing to trading vs a stockorder dell pc. The only exception i would add...

Why does ET have to turn every thread into a shitshow, this subject started with some useful info that can benefit anyone who just started using IB, troll or not. Now it has degenerated into pages of useless penis comparison. Can you people just shut the fuck up and either let the thread...

if they do a reverse split, c will likely have downward pressure, otherwise it's not a risky bet at $3-4 range it is trading now (long term investment)

liquidation engine does not open positions.....

tos is definitely better to me, they have so much nicer graphs/charts for options that show you how your position/given option changes based on the greeks etc.. But nothing beats IB when it comes to jack of all trades (no pun intended). So i have a ToS with a few shares of long term...

thanks southall, do you know if there is a way to tell if the submitted order is on the exchange or held by IB? is there a column or indicator that have this info, i cant find it in tws. The color status column doesnt really help in this case, since blue can mean both.

why is it so difficult for some of you to understand IB has NO LOGIC in their liquidation engine, once you are in the red, it will just randomly select your position and submit a market order to close them doesnt matter if it's hedged options or not. "HOPING" it will net increase your excess...

guys i started a thread on this below to tag this so it doesnt get lost in the journals, looks like stop limit orders are submitted to cme right away after the parent is filled, see the thread for ib's wording. http://www.elitetrader.com/vb/showthread.php?s=&threadid=198298

Just continuing this discussion here, question below if anyone have any additional insight feel free to share. Is IB stop limit order for cme send and queued on the exchange at the time of submission or does it sit with IB until stoploss is triggered This is the wording i found on IB, it's...

are you fucking kidding, how the hell is thurs a good day for traders? doesnt matter if you are long or short, it was one of the worst days. I am sure there are a few who got lucky with the dice roll but that doesnt change anything wtf....

I am pretty surprised so many of you didnt understand IB's liquidation process, there is NO human intervention whatsoever, it's run purely based off an automated engine. atticus if you were talking about my post earlier, it wasnt a hoax, i wish it was. I was short the front month gut and...

thanks that's exactly what i was wondering, i am using the IB java api in my system, it will place a stoploss x pts away the same time it opens a trade. Definitely want the stoploss to be transmitted to the exchange at submission, noway do i want open position and stop loss to be residing on 2...

+1 I agree. It's none of anyone's fucking business how someone trades (or decide not to trade). But the exchange should not reverse those trades considering they themselves denied any error with the exchange itself. To the exchange there should be no difference between average joe...

IB? yeah right.....

dont mean to derail, but are you saying to use "STP LMT" instead of "STP" for stoploss because "STP" is saved in IB and only get converted to market order when IB "feels" like it. While "STP LMT" is queued in the exchange as soon as you submit? are you sure about this? because according...