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It's not by IP address. I'm pretty sure about this because it has to support users who have dynamic IP address that changes everytime they logon to the internet. The details of their security system are not disclosed on how it works. But they have a way of identifying your computer. So the...

TradeStation has its own type of security safeguard. Your trading computer is registered on their security system. So only your registered computer can trade your account. A Hacker cannot logon with your ID and try to trade your accout since his computer is not registered.

Buy Rental Properties. There will be more renters in the futures. Rent will go up. Less Homeowners but more Renters.

How can one perform a screen on Canadians Banks based on Dividend Yield ?

You still don't understand. The question is how easy it is to opened a new account "COMPARED TO OTHER BROKERS" if their new account process is easier or harder, not if their multiple choices questions were easy or hard. You can't even read and understand a simple posting like this and I'm...

Hey Dummy, The topic of the thread is "How easy to open a new IB account compared to other brokers ? (1=easiest, 10=hardiest). IB is only broker that make ppl take tests to open an account which make them the HARDEST COMPARED TO OTHER BROKERS. Other Brokers tries to streamline their...

10 points = most difficuly to open a new account. When I tried to open an account many many years ago, IB had a super ego and an attitude that they want to weed out new traders. They made potential new customers take several lengthy online quizzes as part of the process of opening a new...

It's ashame that they don't pay interest on all cash balance like another broker that I am using for an universal account. If interest rate at other brokers drops down to 0.5%, I might re-open an account with them again. Too many nickel and dime implicit costs at this point.

G7 Meeting Announcement tomorrow, trading ahead of the news

Stocks has block trades that jumps your POC from one place to another. The market maker will print a block trade like 100,000 shares at a single price and it is a trade that you cannot participate because it is after the fact and your MP profile will change dramatically when the POC jumps around.

Oil is up +1.66 today and is trading back above $80 bbl. The Director of Commodity Derivatives at Credit Suisse in London needs to demoted to the Assistant to the Director of Commodity Derivatives at Credit Suisse position if Oil keeps going up.

If he was any good then he be a Director of Commodity Derivatives at Goldman Sachs instead of Credit Suisse.

I take the other side of that trade. I buy all the dollar sell orders 1 tick above zero.

When they lost Eric Bolling, they lost their star trader. He knows how to trade commodities and gave out good info to the viewers.

The same thing happened to me. I tried Logging off to fix the datafeed problem and now I cannot log back on. I got message that I need to register my computer. This is strange since I did not change computer. The hotline is cold, I been on hold forever. The TS chatroom also shut down...

What is FBN ? Is it a cable TV show or is it a streaming video deliver through the internet ?

It's no wonder UK depositers are nervous. According to the arcticle, their deposit is only insured for £2,000. In the USA, depositors are insured for $100,000. I be nervous too with such a small insurance amount. Your retirement funds can be practically wiped out.

Can you please include instructions on how add Currency Futures to the Symbol Dictionary. I can't figure out what numbers to put in the "Min. Movement" and "Price Scale" field for Currency Futures such as "/6AZ7" (MBT symbol for Australian Dollars Futures contract) so it would show up correctly...

That particular strategy will not be transferrable to trading ES. ES does a lot of backfilling. Looking just for HH/HL or LH/LL on ES will not prove to be as reliable as you were accustomed to with your 5 stocks. ES is traded by some of the most skilled traders because it is so liquid...

If you describe what you are doing successfully in daytrading stocks, then maybe an ES trader can offer some critique on which part of your stock trading strategy you can carry over to trading ES and which part won't apply when it comes to trading ES. For example, if you are a rebate trader...