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I have continuing problems with this and they won't fix it. They tell me I entered the order after I say it should trigger. This despite sending them a screen shot showing a time with the order clearly visible. Should have triggered but didn't. They say that according to their audit trail I...

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They can only do it if you have a margin loan. They have been loaning my shares despite no margin loan. See rule: http://taft.law.uc.edu/CCL/34ActRls/rule15c2-1.html

Interactive Brokers is hypothecating my fully paid shares between the date that I buy and the settlement date. Does anyone know any rules on this? My understanding is that they cannot hypothecate the shares at all unless I owe margin. This is problematic for me because I am sometimes...

I reload every day from the web - use web version. Started completely over yesterday with new settings and still freezing up. I am on a Mac. Powerful. Plenty of speed on internet too. no other programs freezing. Tech was no help. They just told me to start over which is what they always...

Anyone had problems with IB TWS freezing up? Mine has been freezing whenever the market gets busy and usually exactly when I want to make a trade. The charts freeze up and it won't transmit anything. REALLY BIG PROBLEM!:confused:

Does anyone know how to get trade info without wash sales in excel format? I need to combine it with my other trading accounts. When I signed up they refused to let me see examples of what tax information they would provide. I was concerned about this exact problem. They have assured me...

Their customer service is terrible and trade problem department is just as bad. :mad:

:mad: IB advertises that you can buy and sell across several accounts in a proportional manner. However, that only works if you buy and sell 100% of the shares all at once. So, if you accumulate $50k of AAPL and then you want to sell it in chunks, across the accounts, you end up with...

Same problem here. The charts take forever to load first thing in the morning. They also freeze up in the middl of trading and sometimes they jump around while I am trying to move a stop which makes it pretty difficult to place the stop where I want it. Have also had erroneous triggering of...

Called again put on hold again. Now I have wasted 18 minutes on the phone with no help at all.

Called customer service for help with the problems, was put on hold and transferred without anyone telling me then when I got order problems, the guy put me on hold without telling me to answer his cell phone which I heard ringing in the background! Still no help!

Why is TWS buy not at the bid price anymore? I jump way above so you have to find it and drag it down or manually change the price. :mad:

I just had a stop trigger correctly and then fill at a much lower price resulting in a loss. There were no sales shown at the price mine filled at during that time frame if you look at the time and sales and the chart. I wonder if they will compensate me. I thought their execution prices were...

I like to place brackets at the same time I place the order so that they are in place as soon as the stock hits the buy price (so I have a stop loss immediately). But, you cannot do this if you are buying available equity across accounts. Then you have to use percent change and do it afterwards...

I just upgraded. We will see if that fixes the problem. In the meantime, I am taking screenshots of every order before I transmit because I'm tired of being told I did it wrong. Tiresome.

I have had three orders in the past three days trigger inappropriately as a limit instead of the stop that I entered and a stop instead of a limit that I entered. Also, when I drag the stop in the chart, it yanks the limit down to where the stop is. Has anyone else had problems like...

It says there are no trades to import. Using demo version to see if it works.

That's exactly my point. If there is no loss carryforward to the cost basis of the next set of shares because you have sold them all more than 30 days before the end of the year, there is no tax consequence and the net effect is exactly the same whether you do a bunch of cost basis calculations...

The problem I have is that I have multiple trading accounts right now so I am getting reports from multiple brokers. I have to consolidate them all into one Excel spreadsheet and then manually calculate the wash sales. This seems like an extraordinary waste of time when the net is exactly the same.