True but I've put in banking tickets in the past, and they've never been responded to faster than the end of the next business day.
Credit where credit is due. I've always (like most) had questionable feelings about IB's ticket response time. So was I pleasantly surprised...
Oooh this sounds useful. SHould advertise it somewhere. Though a discount arrangement with briefing.com's inplay would be even better.
In an email sent out today -- effective Sept 1. I would hope it should not impact EFPs bec I would think the population of EFP traders is...
Though, is there any way to economically protect against a 20 sigma financial market event? Curiously, it's been almost 20 years since one...
For what it is worth: On the quarterly conf call, Petterfy explained the purchase of the claim. His side of the story (paraphrased) was that...
I agree with the sentiment but I hope the statistics are not true bec of so ET members (79,354 as of this writing) would make up what.... 85+% of...
Interesting! Can you say a little bit more -- esp on the following 2 points: 1. Is there a rule that requires providing 1MM shares in liquidity...
I also feel this thread is not that constructive but I will add one comment. I don't buy the story about "years" of inactivity for a U.S.-based...
Well, I don't think it's even "that" simple bec the ADRs will need to be converted back to regular shares, and then moved back to Australia.......
Generally much of IB is non functional Saturday through some time Sunday morning (they say noon though I find it is usually back by 11 for my...
Haven't tried it but I believe so. My beef is you can't do FOP transfer of positions between accounts to the best of my knowledge.
Definitely. Note also that banks who back the margin can also force through changes. A participant in the markets needs to have backup credit...
Bec odd lot quotes are not displayed, not protected, more expensive to execute on ECNs.... hedging strategies with options cover round lot...
Most brokers will charge one fee per day. Moreover, AONs have another issue. They are not natively supported by most exchanges so you get a...
One note on the money market scare thought: SIPC insures up to 100k in cash in your IB account. Same limit as FDIC at a bank. Though in...
While in general, the liquidation was warranted and justified, this looks like an error and worth talking to compliance about. And if indeed it...
This is the legal arbitrage of the decade and has certainly attracted my intellectual curiosity. There was a small chance that LS would have...
I meant comparing the contents to see if there's a bad string or some such. I've only had one failed restore and bec I use the restore to move...
I never bothered to compare good vs bad tws.xml files. Fortunately, I have tws.xml's going back several weeks on Vista (previous version...
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