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UK marketing policy and style in general seems to be to hike prices till the users squeak, rather than price to attract an increasingly expanding participation. Recall an entrepreneur, (an early A Sugar?) talking about halving a products price and increasing the accessible market by 5 or 10...

- they should follow mytrack.com Hi No only the cash - have used it for years but it seems IB can't afford to pay what Ftse International want to charge. See this info https://ibkr.info//article/3243 I'd be interested to know precisely which day they switched it off and can't think why they...

Z index FTSE100 Does anybody else have problems with IB's real-time FTSE100 feed Z ? For about a month now, this real time feed has been rubbish. It doesn't appear at all in a TWS window which shows a "Close" all day long and doesn't agree with numbers from elsewhere. The historic data (Z - 1...

Sierra is a reliable package, and you won't have a problem with it. Support is responsive if there is a real issue. There is work going on all the time to develop the product. There were a few glitches when a re-write took place months ago (They moved to a dot-net platform) Its been solid...

Just as I've overcomed my shyness in posting this interesting thread has dried up. Perhaps it was Glenn's challenge. Copy and paste is a wonderful thing (when applied conditionally) isn't it Glenn:) Any way this is only the start of a long journey that I'd like to travel and volunteer for...

I understand NT 6 requires XP and 1 Gb min although one or two have got it going with W2K There seem to be issues but NT 5 is better with W2K I haven't run it so far but have been into their conference sessions and asked the Q because I'm on W2K right now The caveat seems to be " make sure you...

Get together picture - you know who you are ! Seasons Greetings and prosperous New Year to you all

Well done Sam - a nice get together Leo took a decent photo with my camera which includes most of the "suspects" - If no one objects I will post a copy of it next week. PM me if that would cause anyone embarrasment and you would rather I did not Martin

Jason Years ago now, I recall investigating a DOW/FTSE pair strategy which was "interesting". At the time it was aimed at spreadbetting, since those positions were probably laid off in the futures market it begs the question of a FTSE/DOW front month futures pair strategy. As I recall (rather...

Me too - look forward to it Martin

Me too B'ham or near M`way Saturdays tend to be tricky - SWMBO usually has them planned Fri?

I'm not fully au fait with the historical discussion here regarding the use of IV but personally feel that the use of adaptive stops is very desirable. Other questions arise to my mind when seeking a fully generalised rule. In particular there are issues concerning the instrument being traded ie...

Trackdata (mytrack) IB May add esignal or IQ to this list in future for software compatibility reasons

Only #5 seems to be a valid statement It defines what strong means In this case the rest are invalid (or require further definition)

Zem They have changed the "new" system a bit - see mertles post above The option prices reflect what the future is doing, not the cash. Prior to last November it was averaged but on occasion some big players moved the index by buying or selling heavily, it was very obvious - that's given as one...