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DOW represents only 30 stocks , S&P - 500 stocks.

CADUSD and AUDUSD futures are also liquid.

If you turn off data subscription, you still face the mandatory "monthly activity fee" of -$120/year. If you keep your funds in several different currencies with IB, say Australian, US and Canadian dollars and british pounds, IB will NOT pay you interest on the ~$40,000 USD [IB will not pay...

There's mandatory activity fee -$120/year [$10/month] and no interest on the first $10k in IB account [~ $500/year]. If you keep your funds in several currencies at IB, it will not pay interest on the first $10k for each currency, which adds up pretty quickly, thus it's better to keep the...

Wells Fargo expands free trading offer: (Those trades can be of stocks, mutual funds or exchange-traded funds.) Smaller startup firms like Zecco.com, SogoInvest and TradeKing offer free or low-priced trading. (Zecco Trading provides 480 free stock trades per year with a minimum balance of...

http://stockcharts.com/ is much better imho.

I verified that openecry has the electronic NYBOT softs on ICE and the symbols are : Sugar #11 (SB-MK7), Coffee (KC-MK7), Cocoa (CC-MK7), Cotton (CT-MK7) and Orange Juice (OJ-MH7).

22 new ultra 2x ETFs on various U.S. Sector Indecies. The 2x Ultra short ETFs are a very good tool to hedge against market decline in a brokerage account that does not allow shorting (IRA, cash etc.) Ultra Sector ProShares - Double the Sector index Dow Jones U.S. Sector Index/ Symbol...

def, Nevertheless, those are mandatory Hidden Fees in IB and every IB trader must pay them to IB. [$620+/year(=$500+$120) for a $10,000 account is an IB hidden fee of aprox. -6.2% per year]

1. IB doesnt't pay interest on the first $10k deposited in the account (that's like $500/year fee) on top of that 2. There's a mandatory $120/year activity fee. Especially for Forex trading, that's very inconvenient and uncompetitive. I hope IB will offer Forex trading that pays...

Looks like one of the main points in the article.

Oanda is currently the best forex broker(I prefer 3rd party charting), IB forex is somewhat behind and needs improvement - they can improve by 1. paying interest on the first $10k deposited into IB forex account(Oanda pays interest to the customer on every part of the deposit), 2. IB...

YoungOne, you can freely daytrade with $5k if you open a Canadian daytrading broker margin account, which is not subject to the Pattern Daytrader Rule. Depending on what you are looking for, compare features among Tradefreedom, Questrade, Etrade Canada etc.

How did you guess? some trader just complained about his bad experience with GlobalFutures(Martin)

PDT is a US SEC rule, so it applies to companies that are within SEC jurisdiction(inside the United States of America). Canada is outside of USA SEC jurisdiction, therefore Canadian companies are not restricted by the PDT rule. IB is self clearing and IB Canada is subject to the PDT rule. I...

The main thing about self-directed daytrading in Canada(through a Canadaian broker) is that one can daytrade with less than $25k, unlike in US where daytrading with under $25k is restricted(crippled) by PDT(pattern daytrader) rule. Questrade and Tradefreedom are the most popular direct access...

Apparently there is a problem with the name servers: "A timeout occurred getting the NS records from your nameservers! None of your nameservers responded fast enough. They are probably down or unreachable. I can't continue since your nameservers aren't responding."

For some strange reason they have not created yet an ultrashort russell 2000 proshares fund.

It will be nice if IB starts paying interest on the first $10,000 in an IB account, and removes the activity fee of minimum $120/year($10/month) at least for forex accounts.

There's also dollar sell-off.