Search Results

Search Again

  1. Getting around the special margin requirements

    Hey thanks for your reply. Do you know of other brokers with short inventories comparable to that of IB?
    Post by: nijshar28, Jun 4, 2020 in forum: Interactive Brokers

  2. Getting around the special margin requirements

    Hey thanks for your reply. Tbh I am not sure what the Reg T margin for shorting is. Do you know? No. But I think so. I tried Alpaca in paper...
    Post by: nijshar28, Jun 4, 2020 in forum: Interactive Brokers

  3. Getting around the special margin requirements

    IB requires increased initial and maintenance margins for some high volatility stocks, i.e. 100% initial and maintenance margins are required in...
    Thread by: nijshar28, Jun 4, 2020, 17 replies, in forum: Interactive Brokers

  4. API orders getting cancelled

    Just a quick update on this. I can find the failed orders in the activity window in TWS as per @HobbyTrading instruction. However, mousing over...
    Post by: nijshar28, Jun 4, 2020 in forum: Interactive Brokers

  5. API orders getting cancelled

    Yep. Found it. I think it got wiped after the last restart (maybe because it's paper trading). But now I know where to look for it. Thanks again!
    Post by: nijshar28, Jun 3, 2020 in forum: Interactive Brokers

  6. API orders getting cancelled

    Understood. Thanks!
    Post by: nijshar28, Jun 3, 2020 in forum: Interactive Brokers

  7. API orders getting cancelled

    That's really cool. Can you please instruct me where to find it in TWS? I use mosaic mostly. Also, how do you monitor real-time performance with...
    Post by: nijshar28, Jun 3, 2020 in forum: Interactive Brokers

  8. API orders getting cancelled

    Any reason you prefer it over ib_insync? I generally find ib_insync easy to use but I have not tried much else.
    Post by: nijshar28, Jun 3, 2020 in forum: Interactive Brokers

  9. API orders getting cancelled

    Great suggestion. Unfortunately, my TWS already restarted after last session, but now I will be on lookout for it.
    Post by: nijshar28, Jun 3, 2020 in forum: Interactive Brokers

  10. API orders getting cancelled

    Thank you. Are you using python / ib_insync by any chance?
    Post by: nijshar28, Jun 3, 2020 in forum: Interactive Brokers

  11. API orders getting cancelled

    Hi everyone. I just noticed that some of my MOC orders (placed via API in paper trading mode) did not execute and got canceled. I dug through the...
    Thread by: nijshar28, Jun 3, 2020, 13 replies, in forum: Interactive Brokers

  12. Lower slippage alternative to MOC

    Thank you. That is good to know.
    Post by: nijshar28, Jun 3, 2020 in forum: Interactive Brokers

  13. Lower slippage alternative to MOC

    Thank you. We discussed above that the "slippage" I am seeing is an artifact of paper trading.
    Post by: nijshar28, May 31, 2020 in forum: Interactive Brokers

  14. Lower slippage alternative to MOC

    Thanks! Maybe I can experiment with a "patient" algo that places limit orders around closing time, sacrificing some fill certainty. I am...
    Post by: nijshar28, May 30, 2020 in forum: Interactive Brokers

  15. Lower slippage alternative to MOC

    Thanks! This pretty much settles it. MOC deviating from the close is an artifact of paper trading.
    Post by: nijshar28, May 30, 2020 in forum: Interactive Brokers

  16. Lower slippage alternative to MOC

    Thank you for the links. Checked whether commissions are included in my fill prices (looks like they are not). If I subtract the commissions from...
    Post by: nijshar28, May 30, 2020 in forum: Interactive Brokers

  17. Lower slippage alternative to MOC

    Thanks! I am comparing the fill prices I get from IB (paper trading) with the close prices I get from one of the quandl databases. I am using...
    Post by: nijshar28, May 30, 2020 in forum: Interactive Brokers

  18. Lower slippage alternative to MOC

    Greetings. I am trading daily and trying to get a fill at the closing price. I noticed that the MOC order gets about 0.3% of slippage on average...
    Thread by: nijshar28, May 29, 2020, 12 replies, in forum: Interactive Brokers

  19. Where's the Credit Balance?

    Hi. Does someone know where I can look up Credit Balance (as in Credit Balance - Short Market Value = Short Equity)? I can't find it stated...
    Thread by: nijshar28, May 27, 2020, 1 replies, in forum: Interactive Brokers

  20. Short-selling accounting

    Thank you, guys. Both are great pointers and suggestions that have helped me. This is one of those things that seems obvious in retrospect but...
    Post by: nijshar28, May 10, 2020 in forum: Taxes and Accounting
Showing results 41 to 60 of 78 Next >
Search Again