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This is a great recent webinar with well-known options author Jeff Augen: http://optionstribe.com/2012/08/recording-of-how-to-capitalize-on-price-distortions-in-weekly-options-jeff-augen/ He has a lot to say about trading weekly options, especially AAPL. He likes to buy AAPL butterflies...

There are keystroke macros and special indicators on their forums that can be used to automate extraction of data from a list of symbols. I downloaded a large number of futures history files this way! It is an effort though but yes it can be automated. You can get futures data in a stock...

They do but you have to call and ask for it. It is not advertised. There might be a nominal $20 fee in some cases.

I believe that Interactive Brokers does not charge cancellation fees for options spread orders, so that is a way around it.

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Personally I think are better escaping from proprietary environments altogether. Today, you have realized that TradeStation is too confining. At a later date, you are likely to decide that CQG is also too confining. Then you will face the formidable task of escaping from it. I would...

http://www.timeandtiming.com/ They have a free trial too.

Obviously most interest rates are extremely suppressed right now (with the exception of some European ones), as well as biased by central bank interventions, so we have the potential for truly enormous moves. I believe we will see them some time in coming years. Spreads are a good way to...

Well, as you note, there are no segregated fund requirements for Forex dealers, so Forex has to be excluded from the requirement to give online access to segregated funds accounts. They are not required either to maintain anything equivalent to that, other than net capital etc. I think...

Does it matter if IB treats them blindly/equally with others? I think they claim that they do so.

I am interested in setting up some long-term positions - maybe for 2 or 3 years. Do you think this is possible or is it better to place a series of shorter term bets, say every few months, and take small losses on most of them while waiting for the big winner which could be a a couple of...

BTW I found that the bid - ask spreads on most SSF's were too wide for my purposes. It is also hard/impossible to get executions other than by paying the full bid or ask.

I wonder if anyone is addressing the following two specific issues: (1) Can we try to base distributions on the market value of the account immediately prior to liquidation, not the value of the account after liquidation (we should not have to take losses due to poor execution during...

Good question - someone should ask CME. However, note that under copyright law, there is something called a collection copyright. A collection can be copyright even if the individual items in it are not eligible for copyright. So they *might* claim under that. I do not know if they do.

I also am very interested in this. I think one could have some trades based on further extension of zero rates, but also, alternatively, some based on a potential sudden abandonment by the Fed of its zirp policy at a later date. Already some economists say rates need to be increased. I...

I myself am using CTS T4 via Cunningham Commodities now and they are good. Well, they have their issues too such as no accurate real time SPAN margining so you have to negotiate the margin/risk parameters and the details of that can be awkward and complex. In the end, they have been extremely...

That's mainly because more people here are using IB than anyone else so every tiny thing about them is discussed at enormous length. It is mainly a statistical thing - the faults will be found, no matter how limited they are, because it is so widely used.

There aren't any.

For quotes for which you are only getting delayed data, you can still trade them if you wish, for example if you have access to live quotes elsewhere. I have done so a lot. Just ignore / override any warnings and put in a limit order or whatever. Actually, once you have a position in...

That explanation he gave you is just sophistry. He is saying "we ban everything and then make a few exceptions (that do not include forex)". Well they should have an exception for forex, which is the point, and they know it perfectly well.