If you're trading during normal market hours, why not just trade a couple of shares (like 5) of the Q's until you are consistently profitable?...
I've had multiple accounts (401k, Roth, and personal) with Fidelity for years and never had any issues. Not saying you didn't have some weird...
Not sure of an "off-the-shelf" solution. I'd double check the alerts thing on TOS to see if that works since that's built in. While you are at it,...
I assume you are talking native to the platform and not via some custom API solution. Might want to look at TOS. I thought you could set up alerts...
Also, although you use local time to get the time a tick occurred, I believe you can get the IB server time as an event when you connect. This...
"Tick" can have a couple of meanings: 1) Smallest increment of a trading instrument. 2) A single trade. In this case, you are referring to #2....
Yahoo actually had a pretty good sized forum...probably as good or better than the IB one. Also, the demo environment can be an issue to work with...
Might want to download the demo test app and then submit the same request to see if it passes on the demo. If it passes, you've probably missed...
For actual development, the demo account is not really the way to go. That's fine to just proof a few things, like: "Can my code connect to TWS",...
Thanks Robert, that explains it. I was looking at the Index and not at the appropriate month futures contract. The January future was trading...
It's probably a "slap-the-forehead" easy one, but for some reason I'm just not seeing it, so can someone 'splain it to me please? From Fidelity...
Can you handle the volatility during the flareups when the market takes a hit? (60% from Sept/Oct of this year). VXX hasn't been around for that...
What is "Aborning?"
That's a lot of "ifs." Don't you think "if" it were that easy everyone would do it?
One interesting method I came across is termed the "slingshot" hedge developed by a guy named Cottell. His book is available online somewhere and...
Is this a "hold-til-bust" swing trade or do you have some sort of stop in place? Seems like a pretty ballsy trade. They're still paying almost 10%...
Just out of curiosity, why don't you leg in to the position instead of "all-or-nothing"? I can see the issues if you're paying $7.95/trade, but...
You're overlooking the fact that it's in a pretty steep downtrend and could see $27 (or lower) before it sees $32. Sept 32 calls will net you a...
LNG looks interesting from a liquidity and options standpoint. How is that thing in such an uptrend, though? Their earnings are in the red as far...
The huge sell off in UNG has sort of stabilized somewhat since 2012 and the weekly premiums are attractive enough to keep it in there. It's a...
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