Hmm. I don't know what you mean by "slower". The account opening at IB went straightforward, one just uploads 2 documents: scan of the national...
At IB the credit is immediately added to the account and is as well immediately available, as shown... IB updates the margin requirement realtime....
Why not? And how have I been able to fullfil the margin requirement of about 12k when the account had only 10k? :) Proof:...
What we can learn from this screenshot is that the received credit can immediately be used for new trades, esp. as collateral for margin...
Net Asset Value (NAV) etc. of the Sim-Acct : [ATTACH] Made almost 50% in a month using such a relatively big acct of size 1M. There are still...
Hi, a good approach, congrats. Just a quick question: has it some statistical properties like the "jump diffusion" method by Black? (nowadays...
And this is the status of the Sim-Account (Paper Acct) after market close today: [ATTACH] The expirations will be processed by OCC in some...
Ok, the first day of live trading is over. If things go right then we'll have made 4+k in just a week (that's a whoppy 40+% of the initial acct...
Correction: We will start with just 10k, and we are going to start right today! :)
The platform has shown wrong data, ie. it has not updated the quotes. That was many times written in the postings! You are talking just BS! My...
@HappyTrader, are you really that dumb by not understanding what I say: IT WAS A PLATFORM ISSUE, MAN!!! Forget about your market microstructure...
It is irrelevant, and I doubt you can change anything afterwards... It's just an experience I made, not that important, it wasn't a big deal, only...
I don't know what you are talking about, man. I've nothing todo with gold, it was yourself who did trade GLD and made bold claims of 5000% profit...
"$20 fee for domestic wires and a $50 fee for international wires." WTF is the rationale for such high fees for processing an incoming money...
I thought some more about futures trading, especially ES. The margin requirement is about $4200 per contract (consisting of 50 options). This...
The issue is not about a thinly traded contract, but wrong Bid/Ask at the top of the orderbook (Level-1 data)... Like this: you make an official...
It's not a fat-finger issue but a platform bug...
And the question is?
Some traders or MMs who place (limit) orders into the orderbook seem to forget the time-decay of the options or maybe they make a break and forget...
I'm reporting a bug in the platform, and a guy asks me why I still use the sim-account instead of the real-account... :banghead: And: if he had...
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