Thank you for this overview. As absolute numbers do these costs look impressive/high to me, but I'm only a small retail trader. If you look at...
It is indeed very helpful if your spouse participates. When he/she does not participates, or even resists, then it becomes far more difficult to...
@Dean1406 I have market data subscriptions "US Securities Snapshot and Futures Value Bundle" plus Level 1 (NBBO) for "NASDAQ (Network C/UTP)" and...
Yes, level 1 should be enough for bid/ask prices (I don't have any level 2 subscriptions). It might be that "BATS" is now part of a different...
Have you tried to use "SMART" instead of "BATS"? And I guess that the symbol name should be a string, thus surrounded by quotes: "SPY" instead of SPY.
Interesting that nobody suggests that you should reduce the amount of alcohol you drink (in case you do drink alcohol). Just like eating too much...
IB mentions that in this article: "IB’s order management and routing systems are negatively impacted when the volume of orders submitted by...
There is one thing in TWS that causes me trouble on a regular basis. When I add an instrument to a monitor window it becomes completely...
Why are you surprised that his stop order triggered? I can imagine that if it is set to monitor bid prices, and the bid price drops to below...
How about lean hog or live cattle? Outside the USA you could also look at ESTX50 (EUROSTOXX) or V2TX (Europe Volatility). In currencies you could...
I don't think that Nvidia is interested in storing video because they don't sell products that can do this. What they want is to sell their GPUs...
Either that, or someone in a marketing or PR department had to come up with an important looking press release. And started to be creative with...
@JackRab hahaa, indeed, not me. The words wholesale and retail sounded contradictory to me. Thank you for your clarification what kind of firms...
This is exactly the activity level as mentioned in the footnote of this page http://ibkb.interactivebrokers.com/node/1343
What category of customers is meant by "wholesale retail clients"?
@baggerlord What kind of factors do you take into account when calculating this sentiment in your spreadsheet?
The way how the sweep function behaves can be set in account management. Have you verified that it is set to the way you want it? If it still...
Similar situation here. My account reached its deepest point in drawdown by mid April and has been rising ever since. Compared to that low point...
These versions of EQQQ are not identical: they are in different currencies (GBP, EUR, USD). if you double-click on the ETF's name a window pops up...
You don't have to pay income tax on simulated trading. Is that what you mean?
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