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I'm curious how other traders feel about the new HTML statements at IB. It
takes me about 2 seconds to collect an email with yesterday's trades. It
takes about five minutes to surf to their web site, navigate to "Account
Management," login, go to "Statements and Downloads," bring up the
statement, copy or export, and log out.
I am also unhappy with the new email setup, already talked
to support, who politely told me to grin and bear it, plan
on complaining to upper management about this.
IB has also quietly dropped their hard limits on max
contract positions. This was a great way to prevent
accidently entering seriously wrong order sizes. These are
the first instances of IB thinking they know better than
customers what customers want. Hope its not the beginning
of a trend. If paying them 5 figures in commissions yearly
isn't enough to get noticed, maybe someone more responsive
could be forced to take my money 8-)
RE: the SAR system... I've seen other channel breakout
systems that work well across many commodity markets. One
presented at a meeting last weekend improved results
significantly by adding a trend filter that only went long
when C > C[100] and vice versa. Combining all markets
should make the equity curve smoother (diversification).
regards,
tbr
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