Recent content by Kirkx

Not shady at all. They are located in the middle of Toronto (Yonge St. / Hwy 401) and have been around since 2009/2010 when BBS Securities decided to expand into the retail market: https://www.virtualbrokers.com/en-us/contact-us VB offers quite a selection of advanced trading platforms. You...

According to email currently being sent to clients IB Canada is restructuring its back office operations and as a result PDT rule will no longer apply to Canadian accounts. To be effective sometime mid September. Good riddance. Hopefully IB branches in other countries will follow suit.

Suretrader is from the Bahamas, if I remember well, and seems ok. International Brokers Worldwide is from Belize and they have lately got into some trouble: http://www.elitetrader.com/vb/showthread.php?s=&threadid=266612&highlight=International+Brokers If you really feel like trying out...

Here are a few futures brokers that have accepted accounts from Canadian residents in the past: - Global Futures - Deep Discount Trading - AMP - Mirus Quebec is probably the most retail trader friendly province in Canada.

Try Amibroker. You pay a one time fee of $200 for the Standard edition and the software will work forever. You only need to pay again if you decide to upgrade a few years later. http://www.amibroker.com You can create unlimited number of watch lists. With the help of C/C++ native AFL...

As pointed out in the post above, the OP is most likely talking about "trades filled at bid / trades filled at ask" analysis. It has been popular with index futures scalpers for the last few years. Some data feeds, like DTN IQfeed, offer this information with their tick data, both live and...

1) For stocks try Jitney Trade. They ditched AxisPro platform used by most other Canadian stock discount brokers long time ago and replaced it with Tradient platform. Unlike AxisPro, Tradient was said to have no outages. http://www.jitneytrade.com You can find more details in the first...

You will find them below, look for "quotes", "daily ASCii files". It will cost C$6/month. You would need to download the file every day. There might be some third party software that allows downloading data for multiple dates. http://www.stockwatch.com/ If you need real time quotes, then...

1) SierraChart has active support forums available here 24/7: http://www.sierrachart.com/supportboard/forumdisplay.php?f=94 2) Do you really need Silverlight? As a general rule you should avoid downloading useless crap from Microsoft on your trading machine. It will save you lots of...

Ok Turkeyneck, no more jokes. Earlier this year exchanges started to roll out weekly equity/index options expiring 1,2,3,4 weeks out, not just 1 week out as before. Future options had weeklies like that for a long time. Just check the option chain of the underlying of your choice, the list of...

The implied vols "somewhat discounted"?. That's an understatement. Just wait for the Boxing Day, they will be 75% off.

AmiBroker has very active user forums at Yahoo Groups. You should better post your question there.

That only applies to stocks. It's usually 50% margin for stocks over $3 and 30% for optionable stocks over $5, day or overnight, no difference (the dollar thresholds might be slightly different between different brokers). With futures, RTH margin is half of overnight margin, at least that's...

I would try US futures brokers with a Canadian office first. The only drawback is that RTH margin limits won't be as low as with a US based account, due to Canadian regulations. Interactive Brokers Canada http://www.interactivebrokers.ca/en/main.php RJ O'Brien Canada...