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  1. IB API disables TWS UI?

    Working for me now, in US. For both retail and paper accounts.
    Post by: kubilai, Apr 14, 2008 in forum: Interactive Brokers

  2. IB API disables TWS UI?

    It must be IB then, I'm using TWS API with my own custom software. Strange they'd activate such a "feature" remotely, maybe it's a bug. Thanks...
    Post by: kubilai, Apr 14, 2008 in forum: Interactive Brokers

  3. IB API disables TWS UI?

    Is anyone else seeing this? Just started today for me. As soon as an API connection is made to IB TWS, the TWS UI becomes disabled and...
    Thread by: kubilai, Apr 14, 2008, 87 replies, in forum: Interactive Brokers

  4. To IB, please disclose commission structure for the SMART exchange.

    Thanks,
    Thread by: kubilai, Apr 3, 2008, 0 replies, in forum: Interactive Brokers

  5. Is this profitable strategy worth trading

    Standard error = 2.94/sqrt(20000) = 0.02 Looks pretty good as breakeven is 5 standard errors away. How often does your system trigger? If you...
    Post by: kubilai, Mar 13, 2008 in forum: Strategy Building

  6. Profit model correlation

    Thanks for the encouragement, Jerry. I can certainly see such returns to be possible, though the capacity for such systems would be fairly low,...
    Post by: kubilai, Feb 14, 2008 in forum: Strategy Building

  7. Profit model correlation

    Thanks very much, I'll look into that.
    Post by: kubilai, Feb 13, 2008 in forum: Strategy Building

  8. Profit model correlation

    Hi Jerry, Thanks for chiming in, you have a lot more experience than I do here. My idea is pretty simple. Given a set of trades, I try to...
    Post by: kubilai, Feb 12, 2008 in forum: Strategy Building

  9. Profit model correlation

    Hmm, that's my feeling so far too that my trade picking model isn't adding significantly to the system. I looked up Niederhoffer's rule-of-thumb...
    Post by: kubilai, Feb 10, 2008 in forum: Strategy Building

  10. Profit model correlation

    Hi, In an effort to pick better trades, I setup an optimization for the estimated profit for each trade. Over a few thousand trades in my...
    Thread by: kubilai, Feb 10, 2008, 51 replies, in forum: Strategy Building

  11. From MB trading to IB

    Also, MB charges too much interest when you buy stocks on margin.
    Post by: kubilai, Jun 19, 2007 in forum: Interactive Brokers

  12. MBTrading way overcharging margin interest

    *sigh*, this is still a problem. I don't want the hassle of asking for a refund all the time (last time it took a month of back and forth)....
    Post by: kubilai, Feb 27, 2007 in forum: Retail Brokers

  13. IB buy-on-open returns price 3% above NYSE quote?

    I see. So the problem is with those websites which show pre-market activity as the opening price. Thank you guys for checking...
    Post by: kubilai, Aug 4, 2006 in forum: Interactive Brokers

  14. IB buy-on-open returns price 3% above NYSE quote?

    This morning I had a time-triggered (9:21AM) BOO order on NYSE for COT. The trade price returned by IB is 14.70, 3% above the opening price...
    Thread by: kubilai, Aug 4, 2006, 5 replies, in forum: Interactive Brokers

  15. Have the skills, but lost and all alone.

    I have a lot of programming skills, but only a little profit, not enough to pay for very expensive tools. Maybe we've similar situations, so you...
    Post by: kubilai, Aug 21, 2005 in forum: Automated Trading

  16. how many trades to judge accuracy of system?

    Check out this thread: http://www.elitetrader.com/vb/showthread.php?s=&threadid=36083
    Post by: kubilai, Aug 9, 2005 in forum: Trading

  17. Writing options for a living

    The article indicates that people tend to over estimate the volatility of the underlying. However, it doesn't take into account the premiums paid...
    Post by: kubilai, Aug 1, 2005 in forum: Options

  18. Could Daytraders ever replace market makers?

    The way I see it, people making money contribute to the efficiency of the markets, people losing money pay the winners to keep it up. So yes, we...
    Post by: kubilai, Aug 1, 2005 in forum: Trading

  19. Writing options for a living

    Haha, Maverick, now that's an open invitation for us ET vultures to pick your brain! I'll bite :) What you said doesn't make sense. If your...
    Post by: kubilai, Aug 1, 2005 in forum: Options

  20. Can scaling/averaging down be a viable trading system?

    MacroEvent, At the time of London's bombing, the reason you shortened the chain of long buy orders and shifted down the short cover orders, is...
    Post by: kubilai, Aug 1, 2005 in forum: Strategy Building
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