help@interactivebrokers.com told me plainly that commissions were not included in the gain/loss figures, and I filed my return accordingly. Hope...
IB provides a 1099-ish form summarizing futures gains/losses for the last year for use in doing taxes. It's not clear to me whether the line 4...
I don't think the IB FX dealing network is intended to serve as The FX Trading Platform, but to mainly facilitate multi-currency trading in other...
For those interested in using the IB TWS socket server on UNIX (or indeed, from Windows under a different language), you can get Python bindings...
You only mentioned options orders (I haven't tried the ) I know there are also lots of rules governing automated stock trading (e.g. most...
I believe there are exchange rules against sending automated options orders.
Unless you need to execute very big orders, don't worry about it. It just sends your order to a computer that sits there and works your order for you.
If you make more than 3 daytrades in 5 days, your account gets frozen. IB is preventing you from more than 3 daytrades in 5 days by limiting to...
The two and three quarters choices available: . Trade equity options . Trade futures . Trade futures options . Wait to trade SSF's once...
Ctrl+Up/Ctrl+Down increase/decrease price Ctrl+Shift+Up/Ctrl+Shift+Down increase/decrease price big Ctrl+Left/Ctrl+Right decrease/increase size...
The capitalization (aka account size) argument is less relevant than an earlier poster made it out to be. The only things that matter are...
There are no restrictions on selling, only on buying. RegT only comes into play when opening positions.
Also possibly important in general is the 15 minutes of index futures trading after stocks close, which often factors in news releases after the bell.
FWIW, the "right" server name to use, which will point at the group of all servers, is 'irc.othernet.org'.
Wild guesses... CFCO could be the market maker (Cohen Fein & Co). CBOE, F_AMEX, and F_NYSE could be for SSF's. If CBOE weren't there I would...
There is no way any serious trading broker, even with links to a bunch of ESL services, can ever touch the borrows list of a huge retail broker...
The SOES route never has any quotes displayed - use the ones from the NASDAQ route, which are exactly the same as the ones on the SOES route would be.
protrader is wrong as to the date in general, but it's likely they (and other firms) need to ensure compliance *before* the deadline (as I...
The market is smart enough to price those far OTM according to what they are likely to be worth - usually nothing. Better strategy might be a...
Margin isn't disappearing altogether just because of the 25k rule. If you don't daytrade stocks, there's no effect on your use of margin.
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