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One way of protecting yourself from this kind of fraud mentioned above is to simply check all trades against a quote feed for the security being traded. This might sound time consuming ... but it can be pretty easy if you are good with simple programming. I trade my own account, so I'm...

PM kicked in this morning 4/11 in my IB account. I requested it back on 4/3. When it kicked in this morning my max Leverage when to 4.5 (I define max Leverage as: (remaining buying power + gross position value)/net liquidation value I exclusively hold closed-end funds in the account, so...

I lost my ib quote feed today too.

I too have fixed the VBA part of the problem, but TWS is still having trouble with duplicate ID's. I had this poblems once before (about a year ago) and It went away when I did a fresh un-install, re-install of TWS, but I really don't want to to that right now. Has anyone out there found a way...

The error is comming form an integer overflow in ib's vba code. When the excel api is forming order id strings is builds a number from the current date. The number if forms always increases, and today that number went higer than 2.147 billion (which is the max allowed integer in a 4 byte...

I agree with you, bigger SSF's would be better. Maybe the good folks at ONE wanted the product to be more attractive to small-time investors. I guess I wouldn't care either way what the notional value of a SSF contract is if the product actually had decent liquidity. But the rub is, the...

IB backfill seems to work fine for me on QT. I click "get backfill for all symbols" and everything seems to work fine. I'm having trouble actually "finding" the raw data. Can QT dump the raw data it gets during a backfill to a text file so I can manipulate the data with my other programs...

$30 per million dollars sold. This is as low as it's been in a long time. I don't expect it to get any better.

I use IB's "friends and family" account to trade for a few people. I find it fairly easy to trade multiple accounts at once in this program. I'm pretty sure that the only difference between the "friends and family" account and a true RIA account is IB limits the former to just 10 clients (or...

Something worth considering is to use futures for the hedge instead of options. The most liquid equity futures are the (ES NQ and YM ... thats S&P N100 and Dow respectively) . These futures trade with very small spreads and their margin requirements are good enough to give you leverage that...