Recent content by Spam Man

With a stopy or a limity.

It is personal you know. Tradercafe is my mortal enemy.

I have access to just such an independent tracking service. As it is so accurate and independent and stuff the subscription fee is sizeable, so to save you some money I'll post the latest bulletin I have received : ALL SIGNAL SERVICES ARE HOPELESS. YOURS IN PARTICULAR. Happy to help.

Weeellll, that's clearly what IB think, but my ISP assures me that they don't filter anything and I don't have any filters on my Outlook Express. Plus I get all other emails from them (statement notifications, withdrawal tokens etc.) no problem. It's a mystery, but thanks for helping.

Could someone with an IB a/c based in the UK do me a quick favour please? : Log into a/c management, go to User Management and then Password, and then click on "Request Confirm". Theoretically you will then receive an email with a token ID on it pretty much instantly - though you don't actually...

A cup of tea? I think not my friend. It's time to indulge in God's great gift of BOOZE. By the way Mr. Blades, sorry for not replying sooner but in answer to your question - Yes, you will miss out on interest on short stock sale proceeds under 50k with IB unless you use an EFP -...

Are you aware of IB's new-ish Portfolio Margining? It's complex but in a nutshell will reduce margin when you have a balanced porfolio - ie. exactly the situation you are describing. It makes a big difference. There's a demo on their website, you should check it out. If it works for you, you...

Where they exist, you could instead use the ETFs which track the indices - so QQQQ instead of NQ, SPY instead of the ES, IWM for the ER2 - and trade as many or few shares as you like. They are traded on Amex so you already have the permissions with IB. Loads of liquidity.

Rols, I sense your heart isn't really in this. If you are serious about auto-trading you'll need to get intimately acquainted with the concept of fixing things which don't work first time.

Must have missed it. Do you have a link? I was looking here http://www.interactivebrokers.com/en/software/apiReleaseNotes/api9.2.php?ib_entity=uk, and having glanced at that again I would have assumed that it is just support for 5 second bars that has been added, and they can be subscribed to in...

The provision of real-time bars by the TWS API is a new thing, as I understand it, since build 9.2 - I've always used solutions similar to the one you posted Rols, which tracks the live price and constructs bars purely from that. The problem with your sheet is that it looks at the price every...

Trading is like cocaine. You give it a try, it works out well, and you have a great time. Soon you're telling everyone that you're the king of the world, and you resolve to do it more often. You can't help but notice that on subsequent occasions it never quite seems to work as well; nevertheless...

Bramble, you're absolutely right. Here I am just settling down for my afternoon power-nap.

BRILLIANT. Let's spend some time taking the p1ss out of the confederacy of weirdos who foist their half-baked spam on us poor struggling traders. Check this guy out! He looks like a baked bean with eyes! http://www.trade2win.com/knowledge/people/trainers/vadym-graifer/

Hi Joe, I am not disagreeing with you, but I am a part time instructor in the Green Cross Code. I teach people the correct protocol to follow when crossing the road. I once visited a village idiot who could no longer cross the road. He was confused and didn't understand what he was seeing when...