Recent Content by boba15

  1. Broker against profitable strategies

    :) An idea for the OP: you can record stats/metrics of your trading and especially slippage/missed volume, if there's intervention/mirroring,...
    Post by: boba15, Feb 16, 2019 in forum: Order Execution

  2. Broker against profitable strategies

    Here it is different in a sense that the broker's employee doesn't need to empty anything, making visible actions, but he just needs to observe....
    Post by: boba15, Feb 16, 2019 in forum: Order Execution

  3. Broker against profitable strategies

    I think the biggest threat are employees of the broker who have access to the trading data and can easily identify such profitable traders,...
    Post by: boba15, Feb 16, 2019 in forum: Order Execution

  4. What's the minimum liquidity needed to get in and out a stock fairly easily?

    Considering 2 parallel universes: 1. In one you take liquidity with a 100 shares lot 2. In another, at the same moment in time, with a 1000 lot....
    Post by: boba15, Jul 11, 2018 in forum: Trading

  5. IB bracket order corruption (one of the children not submitted)

    Upgraded to the latest 9554i from previously working 9542a. The problem appeared again. The previous version has been working fine for a half a...
    Post by: boba15, Mar 23, 2016 in forum: Order Execution

  6. IB bracket order corruption (one of the children not submitted)

    There is no audit. It manifests as openOrder() for the stop is not called back by the API. Only for the parent order. And the stop order is in...
    Post by: boba15, Mar 29, 2015 in forum: Order Execution

  7. IB bracket order corruption (one of the children not submitted)

    IB, this problem re-appeared again as of 24 March 2015: The stop order as part of the bracket is sometimes silently dropped by TWS, thus leaving...
    Post by: boba15, Mar 27, 2015 in forum: Order Execution

  8. Profitable, need help expanding

    When you select a company ticker in the TWS window, you can see instruments for that company, CFDs are among them (you need access to the CFD...
    Post by: boba15, Dec 2, 2014 in forum: Professional Trading

  9. Profitable, need help expanding

    Have you checked out share CFDs IB offers? They have more favorable margin requirements: http://ibkb.interactivebrokers.com/node/1912 As an...
    Post by: boba15, Nov 30, 2014 in forum: Professional Trading

  10. IB "Can't find order with id" messing me up

    Yes, this seems to fix the problem, thanks, IB.
    Post by: boba15, Oct 3, 2014 in forum: Automated Trading

  11. IB bracket order corruption (one of the children not submitted)

    Yes, this seems to fix the problem, thanks, IB.
    Post by: boba15, Oct 3, 2014 in forum: Order Execution

  12. IB bracket order corruption (one of the children not submitted)

    Ok, thanks, southall, this is a nice workaround to get at least the stop there. If anyone at IB cares to look at this, I'll add, that in my case...
    Post by: boba15, May 29, 2014 in forum: Order Execution

  13. IB bracket order corruption (one of the children not submitted)

    Does anyone know a nice workaround for this, i.e. not inserting 300ms delays, but something else?
    Post by: boba15, May 28, 2014 in forum: Order Execution

  14. IB "Can't find order with id" messing me up

    Yes, thanks for the prompt reply. The prob I described is similar to yours, but vice versa: the main is submitted, but a child is not. This way...
    Post by: boba15, May 28, 2014 in forum: Automated Trading

  15. IB bracket order corruption (one of the children not submitted)

    Crossposting here, as likely more appropriate place. Short recap of the prob: while submitting a bracket order via TWS API (main with two...
    Thread by: boba15, May 28, 2014, 10 replies, in forum: Order Execution