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FROM THE GENERAL COUNSEL OF INTERACTIVE BROKERS: This is to respond to the erroneous reports, apparently disseminated by one of our competitors, that the National Futures Association (NFA) has filed an action against Interactive Brokers that somehow calls into question the soundness of the...

FROM THE GENERAL COUNSEL OF INTERACTIVE BROKERS: This is to respond to the erroneous reports, apparently disseminated by one of our competitors, that the National Futures Association (NFA) has filed an action against Interactive Brokers that somehow calls into question the soundness of the...

FROM THE GENERAL COUNSEL OF INTERACTIVE BROKERS: This is to respond to the erroneous reports, apparently disseminated by one of our competitors, that the National Futures Association (NFA) has filed an action against Interactive Brokers that somehow calls into question the soundness of the...

Where are you from? If you are a U.S. legal resident you cannot trade non-US stock options. You can trade non-US futures and options on futures. Thsi is because of the position the SEC ataff takes regarding offer of non-US stock options. The CFTC rules (on the futrues side) are more...

Please email me your contact info and I will look into it. Dave Battan Interactive Brokers dbattan@interactivebrokers.com

Short the futures on NQLX or OneCHicago.

Sorry to be naive but can someone tell me what a prop firm is? Do you become an employee of the firm? Do you have a contract? What is the difference between being a customer of a firm like IB and using a "propr firm"? Does it allow you to trade without regard to Reg T margin...