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That's great thanks.

Can anyone please confirm: Do 'margin requirements' differ if I place 'spread order' with broker ie simulanously buy march soy, sell nov soy, Versus place separate orders: buy the march soy, then later on a different order sell the nov soy? I'm told by my broker that lower spread margins...

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Have done some more research and hear a number of complaints about futuresource since esignal took over. I hear good things about ProReal time but they don't offer NYBOT which I need.... are there any others people can recommend looking at? Thanks J-S

Hi, I'm looking for a realiable live feed for US commodity prices & charting. Can anyone please make any recommendations? I see esignal have a package with Futuresource. Has anyone tried this live service? Can anyone confirm pricing on this product? They put no prices on their website which...

where are these figures from? I live in shanghai, and see no such jump....

Hi, I'm looking for reputable and reasonably priced accounting firms to assist with NAV, performance reporting and fee calculations for my management company. Can anyone please recommend some good firms to contact? Many thanks. J-S

I remember reading that Soros experienced similar problem in London, he got fed up and left for US. Why not try a different country? Asia is opening up, what about China, India, etc more opportunities / open minds over there.

Thanks MTE, I understand I can get the contract specs (point value, $ per point) and prices online, what I'm after is an online resource which calculates this for each commodity for you (total $ value of holding one lot) and updates this value as the prices update. Apart from anything else I...

Does anyone know of a reliable online resource which gives you the total $ value of 1 contract of every major commodity which trades? Many thanks J-S

Hello Elite Traders, Can anyone please comment on the typical fee structures in Separately Managed Accounts - Is this the typical 2 & 20 found in traditional hedge funds structures, or are lower fees normally expected? Also in terms of collecting the fees - how does this work in practice...