Thanks. I called the broker, IB, today and talked to a rep. Got a different rep this time - the one I talked to last week was fairly sympathetic...
I haven't been able to open any new positions at my broker since Monday morning because I opened some option positions on Friday and they expired...
It was decidedly not a winner. It was CVTX, and after the close that day (this past Thursday) it went down 25%. Thanks to all for the replies;...
My broker gave me a fill for my day limit order at 4:00:10. I called them about it. The rep said that the fill "probably" happened before the...
As a very very happy holder of CELL October 35 calls, I can verify that on the morning of the 16th they became October 23.38 calls with a...
Yeah, it's kind of annoying that they almost never post about application servers or streamer problems on either the Trading Home page or in the...
I wonder what IB's algorithm for cancelling day orders is. I once placed a day order a bit after 4PM, and it didn't get cancelled - it got...
What's their routing like? Datek still has best-price routing (for equities). Does Freetrade route only to certain MM's or ECN's that pay for...
I'd love to be wrong about this, but I think we Americans aren't allowed to own foreign equities.
The way I do this is to click on one or more "trade trend" fields in Streamer, which will pop up 10-minute tick-by-tick charts, about 150x350...
It's a little unfair to say that complaining about bad fills is like asking for handholding. If the problem is that there's a minor delay...
Aw, now I feel left out... no book. Is it only new people who get it? Been with IB since April 2001. But I only do about $5 in commissions (well,...
Direct access is useful if your broker's auto-routing algorithm sucks. I stick with my current broker because of the platform, but with some...
A few months ago I had a trade problem. A buy order got hung at PHLX, I called to ask them to manually cancel it, they said they would, but it got...
Is this limitation only on API-requested market data? I don't use the API at all, but I do have 15 pages, each with 20-30 symbols on them (lots...
I think Windows 2000 comes with IIS enabled by default, and there have been a number of holes in it. SP4 is available on CD now, and...
My broker suddenly changed the margin rules today. We now need equity with margin value (essentially, equity exclusive of option value) to be >...
Sun Java 1.4.1_02 was a mild disaster on my Windows XP system. TWS ran fine, but other sites' Java applets would occasionally cause IE to die or...
One of my brokers isn't direct-access for options; they send to a subset of the exchanges. (They once told me that for each option, they have a...
I think there's an older thread with more info, but... basically, it's against the rules. I've never even tried it. Here's the rub. Many...
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