I should mention that I know about Intrade and their "unusual" markets like who's going to win American Idol. But the point here is that CME...
I'm a software QA engineer and I've been with IB for over 4 years. In the meantime, I stumbled over the occasional issue with their web site, or...
bearice, that link has nothing to do with taxes.
So I was looking at the margin requirements for E-minis (in the .CVS on this CME Group page) and saw all sorts of odd contracts: CME GULF COAST...
Options -> Properties/Settings -> Browsing/Editing -> Beep on... screenshot save. Glad you like Irfan :)
Looks like what you buy from Tradelog is a one-year subscription.
Thanks toho, editing jts.ini will probably work in my case too. In the meantime, I ran TWS standalone, and the problem solved itself, even...
Since they store quote data in a database, they don't need to run a separate delay server. A request for delayed data only needs to lookup 15...
IrfanView is free and can do automated screen captures.
Last Friday, I tried to use my paper trading account and when logging in, I got the following error: Login failed - Failed send NSMsg -...
How do you have a better record if you eFile? If you file by snail mail, you can keep a copy of the tax file that your software prepares (which...
InteractiveBrokers lets you download you the Schedule D in TXF format, which TurboTax can import. (Starting since 2008, I think) IB's download...
False. Your credibility just went under the water: http://www.snopes.com/business/money/strip.asp...
Thought I should reply since I've wasted about an hour trying to get historical stock option data via TWS using NinjaTrader 7. NinjaTrader used...
I just downloaded Schedule D from IB (Report Management -> Tax Forms), and it does list three wash sales (1 stock, 2 put options). I hope it...
I would like to formally apologize for my lack of understanding of the liquidity fees (I honestly have no idea what they are, and how come they...
I've been waiting for an activity statement that was really simple, so that I could show proof of the one-cent theft. Such activity statement...
I'm not sure how the interest rate would apply in my case. I don't deal with any interest-carrying securities... I have the very same type of...
I keep track of my trades separately using an Excel spreadsheet (because Interactive Brokers doesn't have a nice list of trades and the running...
Separate names with a comma.