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What do you guys get for a challenge string when you have the new card? I got the card and activated it yesterday but my challenge string is still two sets of 4 digit numbers...not sure how to reconcile this with the three digit numbers on the card? I can't chat with IB because I can't log in...

I kinda have too much on the phone already - and that isn't much - but the phone seems to be getting too crucial for me recently, so I'm opting for the separate device.

I may be the only one left doing this...but I still have the platinum device. IB sent me an email in early Sept saying it's toast and forcing me off of it by Oct 15th. I get on chat and go through the process and order a new cc device. Guy tells me it will ship that week. Early October...

With my current version of TWS on the desktop, I can bypass the multi factor authentication and still log into the account. In this "mode", I can't trade but at least I'm in the account - which should allow me to chat with customer service and work on a replacement etc... One of these days I'm...

I've got an old safeword platinum device. I talked to IB last year and they told me that I may actually be the oldest account to still have one. I'm not sure when I got it, but it's definitely been more than 10 years. The battery is not replaceable in this device. When it goes, I'll...

I don't know what's more surprising...that there are girls here, or that you found one of them amongst all the chaos. But good for you...take happiness wherever you find it.

It's happened to me at IB. I've had index option spreads and the futures were between strikes - which would leave me short/long the futures after expiry. I've waited til the last hour and had them get auto liquidated in some cases. It's never happened to me before 3:25pm and generally it...

In normal markets even if there is no bid/ask there are usually computers that are monitoring the orders. If something appears that is a little over/under fair value, the computer may step in and take the other side.

In a NORMAL MARKET, you should be able to get pretty close to fair value for it even if it's far from the money on either side. If we have a market event and the market is fast and thin - like election night or Brexit night, you may not quite get fair value but you should be able to make the...

Options on broad based indexes.

For me it was to stop trading equities. All the research in the world couldn't stop you from losing huge amounts of money when it was discovered that they lied about something significant.

I do different spreads based on lots of factors. The key for me is not to keep anything short that's very cheap and anywhere near the money, nor anything long that's worth nearly full value that may turn and run against me.

It clearly hit the ES. I just happened to be sitting there when it happened. The IB Book Trader bar just disappeared and the whole thing looked like it was having a seizure for a few seconds then we were much higher. I've seen other big trades - not as big as this one but still sweeping the...

All the way to the scene of the crash.

I've noticed it also. Every weekend, the futures price shows the Thursday close. It's been like this for a while now.

I've got a 939 exe file sitting on my hard drive from 2014. Not sure if it's 939.5c, but you are welcome to it if you want. I'm not sure if it will run for you. I was forced to upgrade the 939 as they de-supported it in the last few months. I got 960 and there were some hiccups. I started...

If you want to see what gov't interventions - taken to the max - produce, look at Venezuela. If you think capitalism produces inequality, look at socialism.

Oh, that. Yeah.

You have to remember that humans are ultimately behind all of this. It's all fear and greed. In a crash, the fear takes over and traders eventually "puke it up" - they just get rid of everything for fear of losing what they have left. On the upside, greed is there early in the move but once...

Lots of anti-Trump sentiment here - not sure whether to be surprised by that or not. Right now, the market is re-pricing in anticipation of lots of Trump campaign promises and expected moves. Lower corporate taxes, provisions for repatriation of funds held outside the US, less regulation...