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    ES or SPX options

    I'll just throw in that you can trade ES options after hours including overnight unlike SPX.
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    Credit Spreads on S&P vs S&P Futures

    Does the April 2nd change have any effect on ES vertical credit spread margin requirements?
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    IB - OCO Order

    How do you create a one Order Cancels Other (OCO) order in IB? For example, if you held 100 GOOG @ 395, you could enter an OCO order to sell 100 if GOOG hit 400 OR sell 100 if GOOG hit 390 (stop-loss). The IB 'Trigger' mechanism won't work since if you setup both orders via triggers, one...
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    IB Margin for Bonds

    I trade short credit spreads, ie, vertical call and put spreads, on equities only and currently use optionsXpress. I have a large holding of corporate bonds that I use to cover the option margin requirements. However, optionsXpress only counts 50% of the bonds value towards the option margin...
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    Newbie Futures Discount Broker Question

    I also didn't see the NY Commodity Exchange listed on the IB website.
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    Newbie Futures Discount Broker Question

    This is a common newbie question but I'm looking to open a futures discount broker account that can handle the CBOT, CME, NY Merc, NY Coffe & Sugar Ex, and the NY Commodity Ex. I know firms like Refco handle all these, but is there a cheaper discount firm that does also? (I was hoping to use IB...
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