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Except for "Costs for position borrowing of stocks with special considerations (for example hard to borrow instruments)" Interactive Brokers does not charge interest on short sales. When interest rates are at normal levels Interactive Brokers pays the customer interest on short sales...

It is not Avira, as I run Avira and TWS with no problem. As ctsfx said "you have an external program trying to access IB's API functionality". If you don't know what software is running on your computer you need to bring up the task manager and verify every process running until you find the...

Exactly how does a broker charge you margin interest on a short sale when you are not borrowing any money? A decent broker pays you interest on short sales proceeds.

You missed a much bigger bulge - Dec 2010 55 puts have OI of 146,994.

From the QuoteTracker website: "QuoteTracker is written in Delphi where as the error is a C++ error. The only things we use that are written in C++ are the Internet Explorer components and standard Windows components. "

Read the account agreements that were signed. Every brokerage firm has the legal right to require that a customer pay back a negative account balance. $1200 isn't even worth arguing about. Legal fees and courts costs will be much higher. Your friend needs to quickly come to an agreement to...

The update is that this is/was nonsense as I said back on 11/04/08. COMEX gold stocks as of 01/06/09 are still 8.5 million oz of gold (2.8 million oz of registered gold and 5.7 million oz of eligible gold). The gold is still there and hasn't gone anywhere.

Don't lie about IB, eveyone knows that IB is too cheap to even have a clock. :D

Even with an EOD system you could modify the system to use some reasonable intraday stop loss to get out of the bad trades before the next EOD signal gets you out and reverses at a big loss. Holding on to a losing position for multiple days is not a good long term strategy.

CME holiday calendars are available at http://www.cmegroup.com/tools-information/holiday-calendar/index.html

Why do you keep pumping a piece of junk broker? Their commission rate is not better than IB for 500 shares or less. IB's margin rate currently starts at 1.59% and drops as low as 0.34%. The key difference is that IB is a direct access broker. Commissions are just one part of a trader's...

For normal trading, the only fee IB will charge you is a $10 data fee if you don't pay at least $30 in commissions each month. For options IB does charge exchange fees and exchange cancel/modify fees. Read the IB fees schedule for more details.

End of the year bump. Any MTO traders or do they advertise on ET for fun?

What does your TWS audit trail show for order type and order price? How many shares are you trading? Are you looking the the fill price without the commission? If you put in a limit order to buy at $13.35 you should never get a fill at $13.36. You either get a fill at $13.35 or better...

Try quote.com livecharts. http://www.quote.com/livecharts/livecharts.action

gaj is trying to sell at .76, not buy at .76 . TD will not let him sell at the bid.

Just because the NYSE has normal hours does not mean that the CME does. Globex is closed all day January 1 and doesn't reopen until 6:00 AM EST January 2.

CME Group has free samples of market depth data. http://www.cmegroup.com/market-data/datamine-historical-data/marketdepth.html

Incorrect, as last day to take gain or loss is 12/31. IRS uses trade date, not the settlement date. http://www.fairmark.com/capgain/lastday.htm

Obvious Ponzi scheme. Given address: 6 Karaiskakis Street, 3032 Limassol - Cyprus is a "serviced office" or "virtual office" with anything from a mail drop to a single cubicle available for rent.