Happened to me after upgrade to 858. Called customer service. They told me to upgrade the API version to the latest. After I upgraded to the beta...
thanks for your suggestion. You reminded me that my broker (IB) has a log file with ms resolution, so I can get the info from there.
Could anybody suggest a way to measure execution speed from sending a marketable order until getting confirmation. I estimate my speed to be...
I attended LBR's seminar 2 years ago. Until then I was a decently profitable trader. After the seminar and after I incorporated her techniques in...
Trading as a hobby from the 90', half time from 2002, full time for 2 years Instruments: Index options, futures options, equity options,...
"Effective April 9, 2006, CME Housing futures will be launched in the CME Globex certification environment for customer testing. "...
Futures options P&L was not included in the 1099C form. I don't know if it should have, but sure it was not.
Losing your money is indeed a really worst case scenario, only if your broker is so bad nobody wants to buy his customers base. T-bills, like...
This is such nonsense. I use stops all the time and never had a problem. Furthermore, I cannot imagine faster execution that what I have now. On...
I trade CME FX futures with IB. The spreads and commissions are very low and there is plenty of leverage. I tried cash Forex through IB and...
Answer is b. Broker is IB
Yes. Index options trades for one. Also options on futures. These are not included on 1099
Jango, 1. I believe you have to elect M2M IRC475 in ADVANCE. By APR15 2006 for tax year 2006. Who knows in advance if they will have profit or...
I just have one question: Why on earth trade pit contracts? ran out of things to trade? There are so many advantages to trading electronic...
I wish this was so simple. Well...it is for futures because P/L is reported on 1099-B, so there is no need for details (as explained in the...
It is not true that "...it can never be a problem." You could trade the S&P index overnight using e-mini (ES) via GLOBEX. If you hold SPX...
This is all very nice, but did you try to trade when your account is negative? There are many things that trade overnight and you cannot do...
That's a great point. so we can state that as close as a stock price is to 0, naked CALLs become more risky.
Naked PUT is more risky because stocks tend to sell off faster then they rally. Also in many cases the the implied volatility increases when stock...
This is the real problem: SPX index is sometimes way off (i.e 1210 instead of 1270). Since margin on SPX options is calculated based on SPX...
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