Def and others that peruse this site:
I have a very special request. There is alot of claims made on ET of profitable traders. There is an aweful lot of advice given on these forums by people that may or may not be traders, let alone profitable traders.
My suggestions is that IB implement a way to allow any number of spectators to follow along on someone else's account. So the owner of the account would go to his/her account, and enable live spectating. To be clear, spectating means no permissions to do anything but watch an account, like orders being sent in, orders being cancelled, executions, P/L, etc. No executions or any other permissions allowed on the account.
Now, anyone with a browser would log on to the mentors "spectating" account at Interactive Brokers, with a special password that was tied to an IP address, would be allowed to follow along in realtime. Notice the spectators are not loggin in to the mentors computer, but to Interactive Brokers "spectating servers."
IB has lead the way in many ways in this industry. This would be a killer application to legitimate educators in this industry, and it would almost instantly kill off many of the impostors.
In return for IBs effort and investment, it would give you (IB) two edges over your competitors:
1) No one else would have this technology
2) All the newbies would get initiated to IB by the mentor, giving IB a foot in the door for new accounts.
I realize this is a dream, but IMO, it does not require a great deal of resources when weighed by the potential benefits.
Thanks for your time.
nitro
I have a very special request. There is alot of claims made on ET of profitable traders. There is an aweful lot of advice given on these forums by people that may or may not be traders, let alone profitable traders.
My suggestions is that IB implement a way to allow any number of spectators to follow along on someone else's account. So the owner of the account would go to his/her account, and enable live spectating. To be clear, spectating means no permissions to do anything but watch an account, like orders being sent in, orders being cancelled, executions, P/L, etc. No executions or any other permissions allowed on the account.
Now, anyone with a browser would log on to the mentors "spectating" account at Interactive Brokers, with a special password that was tied to an IP address, would be allowed to follow along in realtime. Notice the spectators are not loggin in to the mentors computer, but to Interactive Brokers "spectating servers."
IB has lead the way in many ways in this industry. This would be a killer application to legitimate educators in this industry, and it would almost instantly kill off many of the impostors.
In return for IBs effort and investment, it would give you (IB) two edges over your competitors:
1) No one else would have this technology
2) All the newbies would get initiated to IB by the mentor, giving IB a foot in the door for new accounts.
I realize this is a dream, but IMO, it does not require a great deal of resources when weighed by the potential benefits.
Thanks for your time.
nitro
