What have you tested? It isn't clear from your post.
Here's what I don't get... IB was concerned about these intraday traders "bringing the firm down". First of all, I thought those were a...
I apologize for not leaving a pointer to documentation on these bizarre java "hotspot" vm options. Here it is, from Sun's site....
You're precisely right: "...they can't double the overnight..." [without massive political / business repercussions] Intraday active...
Well, I assume you have Java 6, and compiler count can be 1 or whatever the default is. This relates to the HotSpot compiler allocating multiple...
Yes, overnight margins should be doubled, if intraday margins should be doubled. Daytraders, or at least I, always have targets and usually...
Well, maybe; are you sure it gives exactly the same value? That would be quite a coincidence. Thanks. FS :)
Whenever you say daytraders are at risk of market fluctuations, you must keep in mind that Swing traders are as well, and perhaps much more...
As of right now, IB has apparently updated the listed tabular intraday margins. Of course it is unknown whether their web updates are the same as...
CORRECTION TO My POST REPRODUCED BELOW -XX:ThreadStackSize=128 should be increased to -XX:ThreadStackSize=192 Apologies if anybody crashed...
[Geez, let's try this again. I wrote out a wonderful explanation and tried to give you the .REG import file and the forum rejected my post. Note...
A front-end should be specific to the type of trading work you do, whereas TWS itself is rather "generic". Check IB freelance tools listings for...
A well tuned Java system is very fast. Here are my timings. My raw ping times are about 40 msec round trip NC to ib's gw1.ibllc.com servers....
Only hard-core daytraders ever leverage their accounts to near full margin anyway, so I guess it's their way of "throttling us back" just a bit :) FS
Here's how I run TWS, using both Java 6 and the "server vm". Since the "server vm" is not distributed with the client JRE from Sun, its...
I believe so. FS.
Yes, but surely intraday traders are not "gambling" more than overnight traders are gambling? I would argue a daytrader has a much greater...
What is shameful about all this is not only the margin increases, but the fact that IB misrepresented (aka "lied") about the futures margin's...
As of this writing, IB's intraday futures margins are the roughly the same as its overnight margins. That pretty much wipes an advantage for...
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