Re: 700% financing charges on a self funding portfolio
One issue at hand here which I don¡¯t think anyone has explicitly stated is that short stock credits do not offset margin debits. And usually, not sure if this is the case with IB (I only trade
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G-Money
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#47907
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Re: 700% financing charges on a self funding portfolio
IBKR does NOT convert currency at each trade. It puts a negative position on account for that currency and its up to user to fill it whenever they like or never do and simply sell the asset to fill
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Bruce B
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#47906
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Issuer country code in the scanner's results
I want the issuer country code to be displayed in the scanner's results
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mrc.lgl@...
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#47905
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FB, AMZN like symbol does not return any historical data using TWS reqHistoricalData() method while using duration 1 D and barsize 5 secs
Hello, Recently I am trying to get historical data of FB, and AMZN in a Python-based project. I use durationStr = 1 D and barSizeSetting = 5 secs. Here is a snippet of my code: reqHistoricalData(
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Tareq Naushad
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#47904
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Re: Issuer Country
How to find out the issuer country for the scanner results I receive?
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mrc.lgl@...
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#47902
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Re: Issuer Country
What is the function in the EWrapper that returns the value for the country?
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mrc.lgl@...
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#47901
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Re: 700% financing charges on a self funding portfolio
You should also pay attention to the 'Base currency' set up in your account. If you trade US products, you MUST set the base currency to USD. Or else, you'll pay currency conversion fees at EACH
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Francois G
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#47900
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Re: 700% financing charges on a self funding portfolio
Well, you dont say what your base capital is, so the interest rate you state is meaningless.? And i assume you are doing equities: So, a 800k long, and 799k short position (1k net), on 50% margin (so
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Drast
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#47899
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Forex vs stocks
Forex vs stocks Hi, I¡¯ve been testing the api for over a year ( I am well experienced in software, much less in trading). Noticing there are extremely experienced people with high knowledge and
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Erez Kaplan <erezkaplan90@...>
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#47898
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Re: Issuer Country
I am still not clear what exactly you are trying to do but maybe this will help. Take a look at the XML list of scanner parameters you can retrieve with IBApi.EClient.reqScannerParameters (
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J¨¹rgen Reinold
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#47897
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Re: Issuer Country
Both, first I'd like to retrieve that value for the scanner results, then I'd like to use the same value to filter the? results on the scanner
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mrc.lgl@...
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#47896
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Re: 700% financing charges on a self funding portfolio
What you posed is I think two questions and here are my answers: A- I think you won't be able to setup wrong with margin interest fees. That fee is probably very accurate and users would have no
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Bruce B
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#47895
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Re: 700% financing charges on a self funding portfolio
Yes, this looks in line with ibkr margin interest rates: https://www.interactivebrokers.com/en/index.php?f=46376
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ds-avatar
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#47894
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Re: Negative volume in tickString
We trade ES, NQ, EC, CL, EUR, NG, GC, RTY and YM in US. FTSE and DAX in Eurex and other products like HO, BRN etc. Interesting that the negative volume was discovered on ES and NQ. need to check now
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Edward
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#47893
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Re: Negative volume in tickString
Same here. Most of our work is with ES and VX. We have TWS and our tools restart around 16:45 Chicago time every day. In accordance with the documentation we do receive one set of -1 values for
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J¨¹rgen Reinold
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#47892
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Re: Issuer Country
Are you trying to add an "Issuer Country" filter to your the subscription you request, or are you trying to find out the issuer country for the scanner results you receive? JR
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J¨¹rgen Reinold
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#47891
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Re: Negative volume in tickString
Thanks again, 1. I agree that ignoring it would be the right thing to do. 2. Regarding <= 0 vs < 0- :) It is a kind of synchronicity. I've got your mail right when I was fixing the same - replacing <=
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Edward
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#47890
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Re: Negative volume in tickString
Our code just does that, ignore ticks with negative volume. And as i said, this was put in place several years back after we did see negative volumes. I took a quick look at the current API
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J¨¹rgen Reinold
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#47889
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Re: Negative volume in tickString
JR, Thanks for the prompt response. Strange that I've never encountered this before but maybe just didn't notice it. I guess the simplest solution would be just to ignore those negative volume
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Edward
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#47888
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Re: Negative volume in tickString
Negative volume fields for RtVolume (TickId 48) have been around for years, not just since TWS 985.1h. They may be related to "Unreportable Trades". that are included in the data feed ( see RT Volume
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J¨¹rgen Reinold
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#47887
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