I appreciate time you spent for the clarification and agree with almost all of your comments. If you have a direct line to a professional quote...
"All IB systems seem to go down for short intervals (seconds or minutes) throughout the day... every day." Could you please elaborate this...
Please, look at CME information at http://www.interactivebrokers.com/en/trading/exchanges.php?exch=cme&ib_entity=llc and...
You can offset but you will not save on margin.
I have to agree that Delphi is pretty much dead. I still miss it though. You have not to be fluent in C++ to use C++ API. You just need to...
It is quite easy to deal with C++ types and APIs in Delphi. Any experienced programmer can do it without any trouble.
I cannot give you a concrete recommendation because it is a matter of personal preferences. Let me just mention that Delpi is much more convenient...
You can try LIFFE (IB exchange symbol LIFFE_NF) for coffee, sugar, cocoa, and wheat. These contracts are available on IB right now.
SideShowBob, 1. Same logic works for ND/NQ or any similar pair. We will eventually offer the whole pit. The current list is on our margin page...
Our implementation is: 1. If you buy 1 SP and sell 5 ES futures, you will have all of them in the account. SPAN Margin will be 0 but haircut...
You always can use a telephone to close a position if TWS down. You can also try to use a Web Trader or Mobile Trader for the same purpose....
Sadly, we cannot offset SGX n225 and CME NIY yet. There is a plan with respect to it but it was not executed.
You are probably exceeding the 100 symbols per page limit.
There is a Web Trader and there is a Web-based TWS. They are different creatures. Web Trader does not require Java.
We are doing hundreds if not thousands of auto-liquidations per day. If the algorithm is horrible, then angry customers tore us to small pieces...
If you need international, come to us http://www.interactivebrokers.com
You can trade eCBOT metals with us.
I am looking on the spread right now and it is mostly 6. Market depth shows just one liquidity provider, so the ECN idea does not work well on...
It is WTI. You can trade it right now.
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