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    Student wins $100,000 in Interactive Brokers Collegiate Olympiad

    The results are out.... http://advancedtrading.com/tradingsystems/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=206904936 http://www.interactivebrokers.com/en/general/education/IBTradingOlympiad.php
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    Martin Armstrong day is upon us

    True, but the original thesis was for it to pertain to economic confidence, and in the past he used it to correspond to cycles in Japan and gold, as well as inflationary/deflatinary cycles. In the days when he was trading you would see it in the SPY mostly, as the S&P futures were his...
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    Martin Armstrong day is upon us

    MA's cycle dates only give a "turning point" in the markets, and it would reflect not just the exact date, but also the few days around the actual day (gold turn this week?). They don't provide information of length or velocity or even what market. Next cycle date after this one is April...
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    IB Mexico Futures

    We're working on this at the moment. It will be Japan first, then Hong Kong. Japan should be a 1,000+ availability list. HK will not be as attractive - it's expensive to borrow in HK.
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    IB Mexico Futures

    :D We'd like to offer every liquid market in the world - but it takes alot of time to set them up
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    IB Mexico Futures

    I'm not sure of the timetable for other S.American markets, but the press release for Mexico was last week: Interactive Brokers Launches Direct Access to Mexican and Spanish Trading Products Interactive Brokers (IBKR), a leading direct access online broker of global options, futures...
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    IB Mexico Futures

    Mexican Futures product list is available here: http://individuals.interactivebrokers.com/en/trading/exchanges.php?exch=mexder&showcategories=&ib_entity=llc You can click on the product to get multiplier info. (fyi.. we also launched Mexican Stocks...
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    US Housing...25% more Downside to go....

    it can take more than a few years to recover... check out the chart of HK property prices... http://www.centadata.com/cci/cci_e.htm
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    Can you negociate w/ IB?

    That volume is within our tiered schedule and comes in at $0.0015/share http://individuals.interactivebrokers.com/en/accounts/fees/commission.php?ib_entity=llc
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    Virtual Risk Free Spread

    Jones, You can view the profile in Risk Navigator in IB Similar to the attached
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    Unregulated vs Regulated brokers

    Not in this to argue. Just pointed out some things which the OP hadn't considered - and that I have seen happen. Of course there's risk to regulated firms to.... as you said "caveat emptor"
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    Unregulated vs Regulated brokers

    More of an issue, is that with an unregulated broker there is no regulatory organisation monitoring them, and no registered persons. They can close up shop take your money and disappear. Then good luck getting your money back or finding anyone interested to help you. A few years back in HK...
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    OptionsXpress f*cking me for over 50K

    “Yesterday placed a day limit futures trade. Did not execute, so I cancelled it. Create Time: 01/03/2008 3:35:16 PM Fill Time: 01/03/2008 3:37:33 PM” This was filled within 2 minutes. So you were logged in, placed the order, watched it not execute, and then cancelled it. I presume the...
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    IB - Options Market Maker

    14.85% of Interactive Brokers Group Option Orders Received Price Improvement The Interactive Brokers Group (IBKR) is pleased to announce that during the first half of 2007 it received price improvement on 14.85% of its customers’ marketable US options orders vs. the industry average of 0.57%...
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    Help with IB fx positions

    The Market Value section shows your actual cash positions in each currency. Our FX model is an instituional style model which accounts for FX on an actual cash basis. It is the correct way to do it and how any hedge fund or bank would do it. However, retail clients coming from other FX...
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    Do you trade spot FX with IB?

    Assuming you are always trading with a pair that contains your base currency then you can adjust your trade size so that you are not left with a P&L in the other currency. For example, your base is EUR. You buy 50,000 EUR/USD @1.48. You sell 50,000 EUR/USD at 1.49. This will leave you...
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    A great website on China economy

    Essentially the same. Renminbi refers to the currency in general. The Yuan is the largest denomination, 1 Yuan is the equivalent of 10 Jiao, and 1 Jiao is equal to 10 Fen.
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    Problem withdrawing funds on FA account at IB

    It was a holiday yesterday. Why not call the CS desk to ask the status?
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    IB and YAHOO balanceship.

    IB LLC financials are available on that link. For the listed company there is also an Investor Relations site, available from our home page.
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    IB and YAHOO balanceship.

    There is a company structure available here: http://individuals.interactivebrokers.com/en/general/about/about.php?ib_entity=llc On that chart the listed company, IBKR, is Interactive Brokers Group Inc. So yes, the market cap on Yahoo refers to this company and it's 10% stake.
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