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Yes, but I would like a company independent solution if possible.

With the fairly recent addition of currency ETFs, I can get exposure to the Canadian dollar by buying FXC. Suppose I want yen exposure but I am restricted to only buying and selling stock (or ETFs). Since there is no direct yen currency ETF, is this even possible? Thanks for any ideas you...

Sniff the packets going to your broker. Or if you have a router start its logger and then check where your internet traffic is being routed to when you are running the platform.

As a previous poster said, go to Configure-->Order-->Auto-Remove Orders. Turn auto-remove orders off. Then when you cancel, you will be sure to see the red cancel confirmation. If you don't see the red cancel confirmation, then you can call IB about the order.

Then just click on View --> Audit Trail (Expanded) or View --> Audit Trail (Condensed). You don't see any cancels at all in the list of order activity?

When did you check "Create audit trail"? Before or after this problem occurred? The audit trail should show all order activity including cancels assuming you have it turned on before the event happens.

Is your TWS set up to create an audit trail? If so, you should be able to look at yesterday's audit trail (Mon.audit.xmls.html) in your appropriate Jts/d***** directory. If you aren't creating an audit trail, you should probably turn that feature on. If your audit trail showed a confirmed...

But Cramer said BUY BUY BUY!

Yikes. First thing I would do is check your audit trail for confirmation of the cancel.

Sweet, am off to the bank right now. "Can I have 2 million nickles please?"

Do these type of orders somehow cost more than than others? That is the only reason I can think of that IB would not offer them.

I have gotten filled better than my limit a high percentage of the time. It just depends on what you are trading and how liquid it is, etc.

Note that suppose you have an active IB buy relative order. If the bid changes from 60 to 55, your relative order does not adjust in price. An IB relative order will always go up in price if it is a buy, never down. At least that has been my experience.

You can set a limit on your relative order. In this case suppose your limit was 15, and the guy bid 18. Your order would move to 15.

No.

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IB unrolled the odd-lot change yesterday. Hopefully they don't decide to reinstate it in the future.

Well then maybe you should stop talking about things you know nothing about.

I meant 10. IB's commission is $1 minimum so any shares less than 100 is still $1. I would argue that trading high priced stocks such as GOOG forces one to use odd lots for risk control. "picker trading"?