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can one of you please describe me whats going on? i am one of the stupid guys hwo do not have the slightest idea of programming TCP/IP connections but wrote a few simple programs to assist my trading. I use VB6 and use the simple version of drag and drop the tws.ocx to my form. So i have...

Do I get this right? Fed Fund Future June 2004 is staying on 98.975 so the market expects that Sir AG will stay on hold by tomorrows meeting?

Yea right i was short from 8th till 13th. I didn't know the pay date thing yet. Thanks for the info and the help.

thanks mister MR.NBBO

shame on me mister moonwalker !!!!! sorry guys the thing is: I wasn't shorting LLY in march when IB billed me but I was shorting LLY in february when LLY payed dividends. 11-Feb-04 $ 0.36 Cash Dividend So I don't know why I pay a month later but it seems to be all right. thanks...

credit???? Just to make it clear, I do not use margin at all. I only trade cash. I didn't call them yet as I always get the better answers for all IB things out of this board. When I call IB half the time the helpdesk has no idea what I'm talking about. ;) If somebody knows I would...

hi last month I had on my IB account the following line 2004-03-12 LLY(532457108) PAYMENT IN LIEU OF DIVIDEND -35.50 I understand that when I short a stock that I have to pay the dividend, but I did not short LLY last month. So for what I have to pay 35.50 ???? what is LIEU of...

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thanks for your answer lets say the LLC pay the tax themselves. lets keep it simple short-term trading buying a Stock today sell tomorrow. No other income. lets say a tax friendly one like nevada. Thanks anyway for the range but may be you can get a bit more specific, if you know...

I know there couldn't be a 100% correct answer for this question and I do not need one just on an average. Lets say there is a US LLC worth 50K and the LLC trades with this capital and make 10K a year how much do the LLC have after taxes? 55 K or less or more???? Circa???? How much is...

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Hi I have a question regarding the monthly account statement. I would like to send this to IB but there Help Form do not work so may be I find some help here. Question: On the monthly account statements there is a point "Ending Settled Cash" How is this value calculated? Its different...

Hi. I have a question for those of you who was with the market 10 years ago or know how the trading environment was then. I do a lot of backtesting but I have a problem. Stocks like AA, C and GE was all in a pricerange for 1 to 10 dollars between 90 and 94. The problem I have is when I...

amazing thank you very much

does somebody know a website where i can find out which components was in the dow indu average in the past? But I would be happy for any idea which stocks was in in 1995 and 1990 thanks.

Hi traders I have a question - I know that IB offers MOO orders but are this orders, if I trade a NYSE stock and use the NYSE as exchange, real MOO orders or do they simulate this orders in the same way as they do for NASDAQ stocks. Thanks for help

Hi I know IB can do this but I want to look for an alternative. I search for a broker who allow me to do Market on Close (MOC) orders for NYSE directly. Commission should be $ 20 for the tourn up to 2k shares. Thanks for help

KEF good point everybody want to be a great trader by just reading a few books visit elitetrader every day and spend 300 bugs into education. good seminars and good coaching cost a lot of money but it's worth. pretorian2 what was your performance 2002 ? I thought you had 2001 a good...

is in my humble opionen one who made over 5 years every year a profit of greater then 20% with a max intraday draw down as low as 5%. But I think there are very few people who can do this.

hi I do all my trade automation with visual basic. Is faster then Excel and allow me to include indicators. If you want I can help you with a tool - private message me if you are interested MW