Does anyone have one of those cards that IB sends you to login? I lost mine.... can anyone tell me the corresponding values for index numbers 12 and 56??
Call Customer Service. After answering a ton of questions they will give you another login method good for a few days and send you another magic card. Jack
Early on, when IB was getting most everybody "tokenized", they had three different methods of securing your log-in. I think they worked this way -- 1) The printed card which had reply codes to use versus challenge codes sent during log-in. Each card has unique codes and the IB security server looked for the match to the code it generated. Lowest cost. 2) Gold response generator. A serialized crypto device assigned to your account. IB sends a challenge code. You input the code into the device and it gives you a reply. IB security server verifies answer. Moderate cost. 3) Platinum response generator. Same as unit above but you must input a PIN to get it to produce the correct response. Wrong PIN will appear to work but info is bogus. Most costly. The Platinum unit is the one they established the $150 deposit for. It was originally offered on a non-mandatory basis for accounts over $100K. I suspect the cost to quin8670 will be a lot less than $150. Let's hope he lets us know the final outcome. Jack
you can always ask for token thingy. on one account i got the card-it's pain in a*s i called IB and ask for token and they send it right away. also-if you have multiple accounts and one of them has a token-you can enable token sharing