Recent Content by borg

  1. What is the reason for IB to be trading?

    An important IB customer told me that IB closed down some of its servers during the big move. Can anyone affirm this.
    Post by: borg, May 20, 2010 in forum: Interactive Brokers

  2. IB - Can't manage multiple positions?

    IB knows only BUY and SELL, that is, SHORT means SELL and COVER SHORT means BUY. Thus IB does not distinguish individual positions of the same...
    Post by: borg, May 4, 2010 in forum: Interactive Brokers

  3. i-GEN AutoTrader V1.8?

    Does anybody know something about this rather expensive product which uses the Interactive Brokers API ?
    Thread by: borg, Mar 5, 2010, 1 replies, in forum: Retail Brokers

  4. Keeping a euros based account with IB

    What you will be charged will change every day as the so called benchmark rate (BM) of each currency will change every day. Currently the BM of...
    Post by: borg, Jan 12, 2010 in forum: Interactive Brokers

  5. Where can you find European brokerage houses to buy only European stocks?

    Sure, I'm trading UK (currency GBP; exchanges LSE, VALUE) Belgium (EUR; SBVM) France (EUR; SBF) Germany (EUR; SMART, IBIS, FWB, SWB) Italy...
    Post by: borg, Nov 27, 2009 in forum: Retail Brokers

  6. Getting rid of EUR balances in IB account

    I tried the same thing, without success. Moreover, IDEAL allows only entire Euros to be traded, so you can never get rid of the Cents, apparently.
    Post by: borg, Sep 21, 2009 in forum: Interactive Brokers

  7. fxtrade.OANDA.com anyone ?

    Yes, I should have searched for OANDA before. This chart however looks horrible. Pippi, where do you have it from? Could you give me more...
    Post by: borg, Aug 11, 2009 in forum: Retail Brokers

  8. fxtrade.OANDA.com anyone ?

    Hi currency traders, I recently had a telephone conversation with Richard Olson, founder of the forex platform OANDA, because I was interested...
    Thread by: borg, Aug 10, 2009, 4 replies, in forum: Retail Brokers

  9. Done with IB, had enough.

    Indeed it is a somewhat tedious process to wire money to IB. I had many rejections until I managed to fund my own and my client's subaccounts....
    Post by: borg, Jun 18, 2008 in forum: Interactive Brokers

  10. IB closing inactive accounts.

    I quickly went through this whole thread as I also once got a message that my account will be closed. I didn't get an explanation as to why but I...
    Post by: borg, May 28, 2008 in forum: Interactive Brokers