Re: An Additional Group Moderator
Got it.?
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August Mezzetta
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#47927
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Excel
Does anyone know the difference between ExcelActiveX.xls and ExcelDDE.xls in the Excel folder of TWS API? Paul sends...
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Paul Kranz <paulckranz@...>
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#47926
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Re: An Additional Group Moderator
Richard,
Again, thanks for all you have done - it's so much!
Give J¨¹rgen my best and my thanks.
Be Well,
Lou Dudka
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Sent: Tuesday, August 10, 2021 6:54 PM
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Lou Dudka
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#47925
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Re: An Additional Group Moderator
I felt honored and did not really have to think for very long when Richard reached out to ask the "impertinent question" whether I'd be interested in giving him a hand with group moderation. And as
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J¨¹rgen Reinold
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#47924
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Re: An Additional Group Moderator
Congrats and welcome.
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Victor <vlmercado@...>
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#47923
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An Additional Group Moderator
I'm delighted to announce that I have appointed an additional Moderator for this group: J¨¹rgen Reinold, who has been a significant contributor for quite some time, using the moniker JR. In future he
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Richard L King
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#47922
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Re: 700% financing charges on a self funding portfolio
Fascinating but probably way off topic for our TWS API group.
Investing in general and in particular short selling come with a lot of fine print and the rules are often very different around the
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J¨¹rgen Reinold
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#47921
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Re: Data Limitation for TickByTick
Yes, i think that sounds like a reasonable goal :D I dont think they offer futures, but send them a message, i have talked to them quite a bit and they always respond fast. It also seems they are
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Luke
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#47920
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Re: Data Limitation for TickByTick
I didn't say that it's going to be easy, Luke. Would be a nice goal though.
When the humidity here and the slippery touch pad prematurely sent my note I wanted to add that polygon.io looks like an
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J¨¹rgen Reinold
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#47919
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Re: Data Limitation for TickByTick
@JR
Thank you for reply. I have been so far very happy with IB tickByTick data to construct bars, but i read on that page, that there is limit of 60 tickers no matter what. I could probably be fine
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Luke
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#47918
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Re: 700% financing charges on a self funding portfolio
I have no stance or knowledge on the dividend paying issue, but: if the
person, who borrowed the stock pays the dividend to the person, who the
stock is borrowed from, who does the corporation pay the
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Sandro Krumbein
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#47917
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Re: Data Limitation for TickByTick
I believe your calculation is correct but you can also get "free" data lines for a sufficiently active or large account. Check out the impact of monthly commissions and portfolio value under "How
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J¨¹rgen Reinold
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#47916
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Re: 700% financing charges on a self funding portfolio
Bruce, G-money was exactly right above, and all his points are relevant to your initial post.
Short selling:? IB handles a lot you are not accounting for:? When you short a stock, you borrow it
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Drast
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#47915
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Data Limitation for TickByTick
I just want to double check if the information i found is correct for TickByTick data. By default user has 100 market data lines and each tbt data for one ticker is worth 100 lines. You get minimum 3
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Luke
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#47914
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Re: 700% financing charges on a self funding portfolio
This person is mixing many different things in his/her last response
probably trying to change the subject so I see a reason to not respond to
them.
For those who may get confused by this thread, no
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Bruce B
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#47913
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Re: Issuer Country
Well, the short answer is you can't. At least not directly.
Anything you can request is documented in EClient (
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J¨¹rgen Reinold
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#47912
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Re: 700% financing charges on a self funding portfolio
Bruce, you couldn¡¯t be more wrong. Please do a bit of research before dangerously misinforming folks¡ if you were a registered rep, you could literally go to prison/be fined/barred from the
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G-Money
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#47911
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Re: 700% financing charges on a self funding portfolio
Good tip. Didn't know this exist.
And you are right that base currency is for end of month reporting.
Conversion or not is part of strategy and nothing to do with base currency
or
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Bruce B
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#47910
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Re: 700% financing charges on a self funding portfolio
When margin is activated (money is borrowed) interest starts accruing
regardless of how you use that margin loan. It can be to purchase a long or
purchase a short position. Both long and short are
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Bruce B
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#47909
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Re: 700% financing charges on a self funding portfolio
There is a setting in TWS to automatically do a forex trade in case you buy/sell something in a currency other than your base currency. If you don't have this setting set then TWS/IB will not do any
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J G
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#47908
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