If it trades overnight 1 pip slippage won't be enough -- you can get slammed quite a bit overnight. During the day it's probably a valid slippage...
Whether you get it back up or not, for the future consider: 1. Norton Ghost or a similar imaging program (Acronis Truebackup, etc). 2. Online...
To answer some questions, you need to make multiple requests to the API to get data over longer time periods than one week. For example IBData2...
I've never had a problem getting weeks worth of 1 minute data from IB (note it takes multiple requests to get it). Maybe his problem is with...
You should have called the thread "Avoiding death" -- it's just as likely :D
I'm still using TWS 854.7 from December -- I won't be upgrading until I'm forced to. I got burned by an upgrade and it cost me about $500 which...
Remember it's a negative sum game when you include commissions.....if you trade with IB or elsewhere where there are very low commissions it's not...
FYI I did some google searches today and found out how to do it. You need to run a program from the PDA called WModem.exe (it wasn't on my...
I have a Windows Mobile 5.0 PDA (Verizon XV6700 a.k.a. Audiovox 6700) which through Verizon has full internet connectivity over their EVDO data...
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I don't charge fees so I can't say for sure, but my un-educated guess would be simple 1099 income for the fees. I'm not sure about percentage of...
In Wealthlab limit order slippage forces price to trade through the limit price (not just at it) for a trade to be filled. Since there's no way...
Does tradesignal have a way to export the data? If you can export it to an ASCII file you can then run it in Wealthlab and see. Also are there...
From my understanding they need to print it and sign it, then send it back before the account is approved, then they can transfer the funds. SSB
Get another source of data. If you're using Yahoo data you'll get nailed...their data is practically made up. Sign up for a free trial with...
Read about the fees here: http://www.interactivebrokers.com/en/accounts/advisors/advisorWrapFees.php?ib_entity=llc SSB
Not directly. There are several applications that will do it, if I remember correctly TradeBullet, TradeBolt among others. There is also a free...
All my sub-accounts have my first 5 letters -- I think that's just the way it works. I never thought anything of it because my clients are all...
You will need to add accounts using the add account link. Once they're set up and approved (but not yet funded) the users can transfer a regular...
It will be interesting to see if esignal can get the QCharts symbols all listed in one place. It's been years since they starting having the root...
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