Recent Content by trinfo

  1. IB - 1099 info for futures: commissions included?

    help@interactivebrokers.com told me plainly that commissions were not included in the gain/loss figures, and I filed my return accordingly. Hope...
    Post by: trinfo, Apr 10, 2003 in forum: Interactive Brokers

  2. IB - 1099 info for futures: commissions included?

    IB provides a 1099-ish form summarizing futures gains/losses for the last year for use in doing taxes. It's not clear to me whether the line 4...
    Thread by: trinfo, Mar 25, 2003, 11 replies, in forum: Interactive Brokers

  3. IB FX Dealing Network

    I don't think the IB FX dealing network is intended to serve as The FX Trading Platform, but to mainly facilitate multi-currency trading in other...
    Post by: trinfo, May 1, 2002 in forum: Forex

  4. IB ActiveX

    For those interested in using the IB TWS socket server on UNIX (or indeed, from Windows under a different language), you can get Python bindings...
    Post by: trinfo, Feb 21, 2002 in forum: Interactive Brokers

  5. IB TWS APIs - Great until IB crippled them

    You only mentioned options orders (I haven't tried the ) I know there are also lots of rules governing automated stock trading (e.g. most...
    Post by: trinfo, Feb 21, 2002 in forum: Interactive Brokers

  6. IB TWS APIs - Great until IB crippled them

    I believe there are exchange rules against sending automated options orders.
    Post by: trinfo, Feb 21, 2002 in forum: Interactive Brokers

  7. VWAP price at 0.02$/stock on IB : interesting?

    Unless you need to execute very big orders, don't worry about it. It just sends your order to a computer that sits there and works your order for you.
    Post by: trinfo, Aug 16, 2001 in forum: Trading

  8. Day Trading Margin Rules from IB

    If you make more than 3 daytrades in 5 days, your account gets frozen. IB is preventing you from more than 3 daytrades in 5 days by limiting to...
    Post by: trinfo, Aug 15, 2001 in forum: Trading

  9. New SEC rule has me crying...

    The two and three quarters choices available: . Trade equity options . Trade futures . Trade futures options . Wait to trade SSF's once...
    Post by: trinfo, Aug 14, 2001 in forum: Trading

  10. IB hotkeys

    Ctrl+Up/Ctrl+Down increase/decrease price Ctrl+Shift+Up/Ctrl+Shift+Down increase/decrease price big Ctrl+Left/Ctrl+Right decrease/increase size...
    Post by: trinfo, Aug 13, 2001 in forum: Interactive Brokers

  11. Day Trading Losers

    The capitalization (aka account size) argument is less relevant than an earlier poster made it out to be. The only things that matter are...
    Post by: trinfo, Aug 9, 2001 in forum: Trading

  12. New Daytrading rule in September 01'

    There are no restrictions on selling, only on buying. RegT only comes into play when opening positions.
    Post by: trinfo, Aug 6, 2001 in forum: Trading

  13. Technical analysis

    Also possibly important in general is the 15 minutes of index futures trading after stocks close, which often factors in news releases after the bell.
    Post by: trinfo, Aug 3, 2001 in forum: Trading

  14. Question for def

    FWIW, the "right" server name to use, which will point at the group of all servers, is 'irc.othernet.org'.
    Post by: trinfo, Aug 2, 2001 in forum: Retail Brokers