Just a quick note... even if you are not subscribed to ARCA market data, SMART will still route to them. The only difference is that you will...
This may interest students trying to break into the industry. We have just launched entry to our second annual IB Collegiate Trading Olympiad....
If you are on the bundled scheme then this fee is absorbed by IB, i.e. commission is still US$0.005 per share. If you are on the unbundled...
They're only taking a leaf from the US book. Take a look at how US CPI has been manipulated over the years in order to keep the reported CPI...
Sorry, wrong info. Margin. You can check before you send the order, but initial margin should be the greater of 30% or Y300,000. Doesn't matter...
It's not that slow! We're talking seconds. Try sending an order - most exchanges it turns green immediately. Japan stocks may take 4+ seconds...
You could check their quaterly performance report and see where they are routing the orders. That may shed some light on it the issue. These...
I'm not totally sure without seeing it and cross-referencing it with your executions. Could be another customer.
No-one knows your position except you and there are multiple liquidity providers, so this couldn't happen. TH are currently not making markets...
MidKnight - we have reduced our JPY commissions since your inital post - but you're right that currently you'd have to do 10,000 contracts before...
Protection is on the securities side of the account and covers currencies:...
Just to debunk IB Conspiracy Theory 1,023,624 - I'm not kiwi trader. I just deleted my post before you went there. :)
- I have never traded with them so don't really know. Also unless you had a stop in with them at exactly the same time, I don't see how this can...
fyi... I took a look at the bid/offer prints in the futures. During the same time period the spread on futures went as wide as 27 points. So...
Neither the banks or IB's fault. It was just a function of the market at the time. I checked the time of this order, and in a 4 second period...
I'd skip the trans-siberian. Rather than being stuck on a train for days, a much more interesting route is to go via the old Soviet Central Asian...
Sorry all, this message was sent in error by us. I don't have details of how or why it was sent, but thought I should post here asap so people...
What you believe, is incorrect. You've either: 1. Never had an account with us; or 2. Using stop orders without any understanding of how...
Can't tell without looking up your account. It should generate a negative balance in that currency when the data fee is deducted Have you...
Just to clarify the slippage issue. The "perceived" slippage is due to the way stops are triggered, and thus, you may wish to allow for it....
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