Recent content by Wonderduck

What broker?

AAA, I'm glad to see you are still here (ET). So many people seem to hang here briefly and fade into oblivion. :)

Who? You mean sell cattle? Buying "against" my long just doubles up my long.

Thanks much! -- Will check 'em out.

Well that makes sense, and I could certainly understand if the commission structure would be different (i.e, more). Do you know of any good ones, that perhaps are not too expensive? I.e., I won't want to be paying $20 per contract.

Anyone hear any scoop as to why nat gas dropped so heavily on Wednesday? thx

Does anyone have any recommendation for a broker to use to trade beef? (I wish IB did the non-electronic stuff -- it would just make it easier.) Thx.

Hey tripleA, how ya been? Interesting point. But what was the eventual result of '87? In the long run, the weak dollar is a disaster for the US, in the short run it'll probably help W get relected, and somewhere in there I'd guess the stocks will probably decline somewhat (20%ish).

Heh. You can go on thinking that, but the truth is that you are not a very good student of history.

Mine shows gw1.ibllc.com:4000. Today at least, nslookup tells me those two are just one IP address apart, so I'm not sure what that means.

SLK even had problems Friday, in the last hour of trading.

Not sure... def, can u help?

Not really.

Hi All, I am primarily on IB, which was completely down, and still is, for any trading purposes. I have a backup broker, which was also down. Did anyone have a broker which WAS able to trade during this outage, either on the ECNs, or better yet, at the Chicago futures exchanges, on Globex...