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IB also doesn't pay anything to the customers for the first $10000 of the cash balance. A lot other brokers do. We should look at the whole picture.

It would cost $3 or less at MBT, IB, CyberTrader, etc. Besides, Scottrade does not only have direct access routing options but also doesn't have conditional orders or trade triggers. The fills with the direct routings are often better. Scottrade does not accept a stop-loss price as well as a...

Ameritrade (not Izone) now has some direct routing options. According to TradeStation securities, Ameritrade only sends 45% of its auto-routed orders directly to the exchanges. That is actually better than a few other competitors---but still only half of what tradestation sends.

I noticed that Genesis did increase their per-share pricing from $0.005 to $0.01 for the retail customer in their web-site. I hope they will have some kind of consistency in their commissions rate and platform rate based on trading volume ranges in the near future. I was quoted a different...

MichaelD, What would be the recommended memory/disk_space requirements to run TradeStation 8.1 SP1 reasonably fast?

MBTrading and TradeStation Securities also charge $1 for 100 shares for the first 500 shares. MBT doesn't have that minimum $30 monthly commissions requirement that IB has. MBT's customer service is apparently better than IB's. CyberTrader, RML Trading, Genesis, etc. apparently can...

Toonces, Did you also notice if CyberTrader still charge the separate maximum possible commissions for all the partial fillis even for one single order? http://www.elitetrader.com/vb/showthread.php?s=&threadid=45983&perpage=6&highlight=cybertrader%20commission&pagenumber=1

IBSoft, When do you expect TWS to be stable again to start high volume trading without interruptions/slowness?

Doesn't IB have a "smart" routing feature that is supposed to take care of problems like this?

Toonces, Who is that broker?

Hi MichaelD, Depending on when I called Tradestation Securities, I got the following different information. Could you tell us which one of them is the Tradestation Securities' current offer: A) If anyone opens an account, the platform fees will not be waived for the first month. It will...

I found lowtrades to be slow in general. After you have successfully placed your orders, your orders sometimes can get rejected by the system after a while. They will be very prompt to blame it on the user, the exchanges' bad-data, etc. If you catch those missing orders often, they...

According ThinkOrSwim, TradeStation Securites accepts payments for the order flow. Does this make the TradeStation Securites's order executions slower than IB's?

Does MBT take payments for the order flow?

It would be very nice Genesis could finally make an effort in replying customers' calls/emails in a timely fashion. It has been long over due. Thanks.

Interesting. I asked the order execution priority question to Ameritrade recently. According to Ameritrade's (email) client services, the order execution priorities for Izone and Ameritrade are the same. May be Ameritrade's (email) client services and Ameritrade's (phone/live) client services...

Transferring any IRA to Izone is not even an option since Izone does not accept IRA accounts.

Could kindly give some recent examples of the poor executions you faced with Izone. Izone claims to have the same order execution priority as Ameritrade's orders'. Did Izone ever reply your inquiry regarding the poor executions?

What are the 3rd party tools that let the users to automate trading with Tradestation's software with IB's brokerage?

Who is your broker? Does that broker allow you to day-trade with just a couple of thousands bucks?