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Nice, I voted "IB is not a bucket shop". Different choice is no-brainer for anybody who works for other broker.

Kicking, What is so complicated? http://www.interactivebrokers.com/en/accounts/fees/minimumDeposits.php?ib_entity=llc#commission I really cannot comment on other questions. Policy is policy. Nothing changed in it.

"IB quietly introduced a series of fees recently" is wrong. This policy was in place for many years. It is clearly described on our Web site. If you have about $10,000 account and not ready to lose interest in exchange for our services, please look elsewhere. Meanwhile, our interest on amounts...

You will not have ANY additional fees on IB if you trade 10 times a month. USD 0.005 per share is it.

Try this one. http://www.interactivebrokers.com/en/accounts/secureTransactionProgram.php The problem was with '.' at the end of the URL.

We hope to add CBOT ag options soon but now they are not available.

IB have it http://www.interactivebrokers.com/en/accounts/secureTransactionProgram.php. In fact, we were probably the first retail company who offered these gadgets.

It is not a good idea to trade ER2 on HK server. Some of HK servers are restarted about this time. You could also have a bigger lag. I would recommend switch to US.

This is straightforward. Available cash to sweep is all cash not used for margin purposes.

The first position date on YI September futures is August 30. So, you cannot go long now. You do not want a truckload of silver on your backyard, right? You still can go short or close your positions. You can also trade any side with further months. Reference...

They do. Banks that make markets obviously cannot keep tiny spreads during big news events. Any real market behaves this way. I am not watching for these spreads specifically but I read on ET that IDEALPRO behavior is reasonable in such cases.

Pippi436, 25K is our minimum size. Then you can use increments as small as 1$.

Here we go http://www.interactivebrokers.com/en/general/about/financials.php?ib_entity=llc BTW, your compare apples and oranges. I especially like this Pizza Hut part in wikipedia. It is just not our business.

No, it is just a way to say that necessity of backups of any kind is a function of amount of money involved.

48-91 is a pretty good ping time. This time will not necessary decrease because it depends not only from your connection speed. The line throughput does not matter too much for TWS. Any broadband service should be enough. You definitely do not want to share line with many of your neighbors...

How about electronic LIFFE coffee and cocoa futures? The liquidity is pretty decent. NYMEX is widening its GLOBEX-based trading. Metals are coming in August. It definitely looks like they are moving everything over there. CBOT introduces side-by-side trading of ags. Pit must die.

cohenmichaela, I am far from been questioning your intelligence. I apologize if you understood me this way. The only thing I am questioning is a deep knowledge of an instrument that you are trading. From my point of view it is a sin and you will pay for it.

cohenmichaela, Your understanding is incorrect and our CS is providing a good explanation. I will try to improve this explanation here to compensate a bit your moral loss because of our error. As alanm correctly mentioned, whatever is called margin in futures world is performance bond...

cohenmichaela, If I understood you right, here is an answer. When you buy options, you should have enough cash to pay the premium. You cannot use other options value for it. If we allow it, you will have a potential to open unlimited amount of option positions and risk of your portfolio will be...

That is the proportion set by the exchange for maximal margin offsets. I know it because I know how SPAN (the margin system) works. As SethArb said, real life will deviate from it but still, it is probably the best you can have.