The past few trading days, I knew that my setup was developing and the payoff would be relatively huge. Sure enough, the setup developed but I didn't get the payoff. Why? It appears that I received the latest prices after the time period closed and I just dropped the updated prices. Had I not done that, my payoff would have been about $10K today. In addition, had the bug I discussed earlier been fixed, I would have also been able to take advantage. I feel sort of disappointed that it didn't work out, but I'm also excited for the following reasons: 1. It took me 3-5 minutes to figure out why the trade was not entered into live. 2. I knew my setup was developing, I knew it would happen, it did, it triggered. I am definitely refraining from calculating exactly how much I didn't make today
Don't consider this as losses, but as "learning fees" and part of your "self-funded education". These are investments, not expenses or costs.
Just when I thought it was safe... Today, Interactive Brokers decided to shit its pants and deleted my paper trading account (customer service couldn't find it). So hopefully the reset makes a new one available tomorrow. No trading today, and possibly not tomorrow either! Ah well, thumb twiddling time.
Cross post: https://www.elitetrader.com/et/thre...n-ib-due-to-portfolio-value-bug-today.318983/ And this one: https://www.elitetrader.com/et/threads/ibkr-portfolio-value-broken-6am-gmt.318982/