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The most significant reason will be quality of fill. 5000 * 1 cent = $50.

What you mean by "system crashes"? Why do you believe that consumption of 300M of memory on 2G computer is the problem? How much memory TWS will consume if you minimize it? The minimization will cause a garbage collection.

What is a price of a memory chip with a size that TWS consumes? What is a cost of development and support on all platforms of a new TWS spreaded trough our customers?

Please, go to http://www.interactivebrokers.com , pick software from main menu and then third-party tools.

There is no market data but you still have a line with the contract specification. Open order ticket, fill it in, and transmit.

It will work as usual. You enter your order and we will execute.

Data subscription is optional. If you have other sources, you can use them.

The difference is in exchange name CBOT is pit ECBOT is electronic. Meats are traded on CME and GLOBEX. IB symbols are same and contracts are fungible.

The answer is positive. You can trade both electronic and pit CBOT futures with us.

We do not do anything manual in IB. It is too expensive. Computers make this work better.

Coming Monday is a rollover day. It is always a day before expiration.

Bitstream, You keep euros and pounds and buy paying dollars. IB loans you these dollars and you are paying interest on this loan. Base currency is irrelevant. It is just a way to calculate in one scale. If you want to avoid a loan, you can buy dollars on IDEAL or IDEALPRO and use them for...

I just want to correct your numbers a bit. $25,000 USD is a minimal lot size on IDEALPRO. 50:1 leverage means $500 per trade. $5,000 USD is a minimum to open an account. Day trade minimum is unrelated to FX trading.

We are also very satisfied with our futures volumes :D

We have a big volume in stocks and options trading. It is kind of funny to restrict IB strength to trading minis.

smilingsynic, You are right. Futures options just like futures are excluded from short restrictions completely. As soon as you fulfill the margin requirements, you can buy/sell anything you want. The source of the confuse is terminology. What is called margin for futures and futures options is...

I am clearly marked as IB representative. Do you see "Interactive Brokers" on the left? There is nothing to hide. I also gave an informative answer. It is possible to go short or long on US USD denominated futures. I can add that $5,000 is indeed our account minimum.

We will offer NYBOT futures on ICE. I am not sure about options. Our intention is to provide all electronically traded futures and futures options with decent liquidity.

They are traded only on floor. Chances are slim.

Margin requirements are here: http://www.interactivebrokers.com/en/trading/marginRequirements/margin_amer.php?ib_entity=llc These requirements do not depend from type of an account. It is actually minimums required by exchanges. Pardon me but I must tell you that you need to learn more...