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U.S. law and the CFTC have forbidden foreign brokers from soliciting U.S. residents. Although this is not quite the same thing as forbidding U.S. residents from opening accounts abroad, the CFTC has sued maybe a dozen foreign brokers for breaking the law, so brokers are being cautious and not...

The "guarantee" does not apply to a broker's own clients (just to counterparties). In any case, Vision has been subject to disciplinary action: "In addition to the $500,000 fine, Vision, Rothman and Doherty must retain an independent consultant to review Vision's existing procedures for...

By the way, there are activity and quote fees unless you generate commissions of $20 a month or so, so if you will be very inactive, another broker may be a better choice (but trading fees will be much higher at other brokers).

You can trade any foreign markets unless prohibited by Canadian regulators. Just check all the boxes - that is just to determine which agreements you will have to sign at the end. Or just put Canada and U.S. for now to cut down on numerous signature pages. You can change it any time anyway...

See http://www.visionfinancialmarkets.com/pfgtransfer/ BUT they will be postal-mailing out statements on Tuesday and you cannot submit the form until you get it in the mail. They are charging $25 handling plus $25 wire transfer fee to wire to another broker. That's way too much in my...

If you already have a U.S. bank account, your current broker may be confused - try talking to someone else there. Try Interactive Brokers though, they have lots of customers in many countries. Also what country are you in? It makes a difference.

In my opinion you might be better off attending a local university in person, not online, to get the full experience. Also if the course does not require as prerequisite an undergraduate engineering or science degree, it may be taught at a low level and get little respect from major...

From http://www.futuresmag.com/2012/10/11/vision-to-take-over-pfg-accounts Well, Vision was the high bidder, probably for good reasons even apart from the fact that they may be restricted in otherwise taking on new IB's. But remember, you will be able to choose to wire your funds right...

Judging by conversations I have had with brokers, some would decline, because they are uncertain whether the trust will be valid. If you ask them any questions whatsoever they will usually take that as a sign that you do not know what you are doing and will tell you to get a lawyer. This...

There are others similar to CQG: Trading Technologies XTrader CTS T4 Rithmic also Tradestation especially for intraday historical data spanning many years.

The margin should be be correct afterward if you can actually do the two trades separately. It is very routine to hedge futures with options and vice versa and this is part of the SPAN calculation that IB uses. I have done it many times. It may be just quoting incorrectly what the...

Did you try specifying direct routing to the exchange? Sometimes this allows additional spreads. In any case, you want a spread, not a combo order. Combo orders are held on IB's servers I believe. As to margin, I am sure that that will be correct anyway once you have both positions in...

TradeStation if you have the funds to open an account there.

There is a special TradeStation data offer on this month only, for new customers only, that is even better. It is better than the generally advertised offer and is suitable even for low-activity customers. Maybe it would work to call them up and ask about this month's unpublished "Free...

If so, probably what to expect would be a (perhaps false flag) attack on an Israeli or U.S. vessel that "forced" a response to the Iranian aggression, despite the announced intention to wait. But the market may be partly expecting something like this anyway - oil has not come down. The...

I definitely would not (and did not) say that all things prescribed are valid. Certainly prescription of drugs is often done all too liberally. However, there are cases where people have poor absorption (e.g those with some forms of intestinal cancer or other disease) where significant doses...

I would caution that both of these can feed cancer in some cases if taken in very large doses.......recent studies have suggested this for vitamins A & C in particular. I think that small quantities may be ok though.....or if they are prescribed

You can trade off 15-minute delayed data free. I think this includes the European exchanges. TWS will say that it "recommends" that you have live data to trade but you can override the warning and place the trade. This may be enough for the kind of trading you are doing. For example...

http://www.ifre.com/oat-futures-defy-the-sceptics/21014488.article is interesting.

Just remember Steve Jobs tried to treat his (pancreatic?) cancer with natural therapies initially and died.