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CSFB crossfinder has been my go to route for executing large blocks of shares via darkpools without affecting market prices. But with CSFB routes ending at the end of the month I need to find an alternative within IB. IB offers JeffAlgo and Foxriver algos but I don't have any experience with...

Snarky comments aside, I found that if I log in using an older TWS build 981 the display reverts back to showing 1 lot for 100 shares. But build 10.15 and newer only shows the actual shares without an apparent way to revert back.

I logged into TWS today and all stock volume data on the bid/ask and volume columns are now being shown in their actual amount rather than multiples of 100. I greatly preferred when 100 shares would be shown as 1. The extra zeros are throwing me off. Any way to change this setting back?

The thing is DGAZ is absolutely guaranteed to fall below his original entry of $17, its just a question of how high will it go first. Lets say worst case natural gas hits $1.5, that would another 20% decline from current levels, I think that would put DGAZ around 50ish. I'd be shorting into...

http://www.reuters.com/article/2015/04/30/us-altera-intel-standstill-idUSKBN0NL2IZ20150430

Very interesting series. Great find.

I think the peak of elitetrader was in the early 2000s. You had some real top notch guys like praetorian2(Harris Kupperman) posting their trades in detail and plenty of drama from the journal entries of Hitman. Its been a slow fade ever since.

Can't login to TWS this weekend. Says I have an invalid username/password. But I can log into account management via the IB website just fine. Anyone else having issues?

I had the exact same problem trading an IPO on its first day of trading. Had a 10,000 share position i was trying to sell, there was over 10k on the bid but my smart limit order wouldn't execute. Called IB and they told me it was due to their market capping rules. Strangely, I haven't had a...

I also wonder if ADT might be up due to speculation that its Bill Ackman's next long candidate, same reason why fdx is up so much.

9,000 contracts traded in the Aug 44 and 45 calls today. How attractive is ADT as a takeover target?

How do HFT algos front run SMART routing orders? Here's an example. There's 500 shares available at the ask price. 100 shares each at ARCA, NSDQ, BATS, NSX, and, EDGE. I want to buy all 500 so i send a 500 buy order via my broker's smart routing system at the ask price. But I only get...

Trading is one of the most mentally challenging jobs out there. You need to be in a good frame of mind to be successful. Personally, I find my trading suffers whenever I get upset or i'm not in a good mood. You should seriously consider scaling back your trading until you get your personal...

No exchange requires it. Its something IB management decided on their own for whatever reason. And yes, TWS did used to have cap settings built into the software, but these new caps are hard wired into IB's back servers, nothing you can do to change them yourself.

Its been a major issue for the past few months as IB has unilaterally decided to implement price caps for afterhours/premarket trading which means you often cannot trade certain names if they have moved too far from their closing price. I suggest you open a support ticket and complain about...

Hitman had by far the most comprehensive, complete, soul-barring journal ever posted on ET. He went into extreme detail about all his strategies and the stocks he traded. Too bad it was all NYSE scalping techniques that stopped working years ago. His perpetual infatuation with the "princess" was...

Go for it. If the strategy you used to go from 10k to 100k still works, then exploit it like crazy. Large losses as a result of overconfidence is a common mistake for successful traders. As long as the underlying strategy is still sound, learn from your mistakes and make sure it doesn't happen...

They are one the few(only) independent reputable clearing firms that cater to daytraders. Penson/apex is too unstable imo.

Can anyone provide me with names of introducing brokers that clear through wedbush securities? I'm looking to open a retail account. I currently only know of capstone and legend securities.

On May 15 2012, IB said it couldn't file its 10-q on time due to a technical accounting issue and they were waiting to hear back from the SEC on how to proceed. That is likely the reason why the ceo and cfo havn't cerfiied yet. Seems like a nonsignificant issue to me but read for yourself...