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In the case of a some cases of a simple limit order, figure out using a model what the option price will be when the underlying gets to be where you want to act. Then place that as an options limit order. You cannot prudently do this for stop orders because only the underlying itself will...

Very hopeful news: http://www.cftc.gov/PressRoom/PressReleases/pr6601-13 "CFTC Files Complaint against U.S. Bank, N.A. Alleging Unlawful Use of Peregrine Financial Group, Inc.’s Customer Segregated Funds and Violation of Customer Segregation Laws" Hopefully this will be the first step...

Agreed that U.S. retail brokers do not offer most of these markets, and in fact are not allowed to by regulators.

Most of these Asian brokers are very expensive by U.S. domestic standards, right? For trading, many people actually use CFD's rather than stocks to avoid stamp duty taxes. By the way Phillip is a well-known broker based in Singapore...

ETE is included. I guess the rights may be tough to get though if you need those specifically. Maybe they could get those too if they are traded. Are rights necessarily traded openly?

Probably Saxo. http://www.generalatlantic.com/en/news/article/1763 You may be able to open an account to access the Saxo Platform with Investors Europe. But according to the Investors Europe Web Site: For MiFID Products : A 'U.S. Person' is defined as one who is permanently...

You can always trade vertical and other spreads which have low margins. I assume you are referring to currency futures options? Or are you referring to OTC forex options (which are not usually available to retail customers in the U.S.)? There are also currency options traded on some stock...

You do not use theta as such but yes, a model such as Black Scholes will forecast the price of an option of a given strike on a future date as a function of forecast price of the underlying and forecast implied volatility and days to expiration. You will need to estimate the implied...

I see no problem. You are covered. The issue was about futures traders, doing no stock trading, but trying to get SIPC coverage via sweeping of idle funds to a "securities" account that was otherwise inactive.

Well then you are covered. This thread is about futures according to its title.

Funds swept from futures account into stock account are not FDIC protected and not SIPC protected either unless used/intended to purchase stocks as per clarifications from IB, SIPC and NASD in last year. To be SIPC protected, funds must be deposited for purposes of investing in securities as...

They think you are going to get estimates that are too high and pocket the check and not do the repairs. Just get two estimates (or 3) and send them to them. Sue them in small claims court if they will not pay.

Probably not. You are better to learn to think in USD for trading purposes. You will get used to switching back and forth mentally.

First write a detailed letter with photos, bills, etc. This may get a better response. Or hire a public adjuster to negotiate with them.

Can't you avoid the tax by using CFD's?

I cannot find any IB links on DDE/ActiveX right now that clarify this. If you open a ticket, maybe they would clarify. I am not using IB at the moment (though I may come back for trading stocks at least later) but am using CTS/T4 which has a nice API for C# and also some Excel capabilities...

There are futures options on the yen and that is what my link above points to. I have traded them (with difficulty because they are thinly traded). IB has them. It is true that they are thin and true that they do not go out more than a year. Futures are not where the real volume in forex...

If you read their forums you will see a lot of disappointment. It has not really been possible to build from open source because the source was always far behind the version that was actually in use, or parts were missing. At least, that was my impression some time ago. I have never...