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or go to right side of home page, black bar. Click "Contract Search". Type QG in symbol field, contractType=futures. Click down through the results and you get all the contract data including the 2500 multiplier, tick increments, hours, etc...

IB will offer CME pits in 1-2 weeks. CBOT within a month. NYMEX somewhere around 4-6 weeks, maybe sooner. NYBOT after everything else is working. But pits are horrible places to trade unless you are the local or are taking positons for some reasonable time. The fills, both in speed and price...

If your base currency is CAD, your trade in cable will generate cash positions in USD and GBP. How you got the positions will no longer matter. We will apply margin in CAD = 2%*GBPposition*xrateCAD/GBP + 2%*USDposition*xrateCAD/USD 100K GBP will be 2K GBP margin, at current prices...

go to http://www.interactivebrokers.com/en/software/demo.php Click on "Individual Demo". Should take 90 seconds to load. Click through to the application and go to the "World Indices/Currencies" tab. At the bottom of the page you can see (and test trade) on our live prices. The "exchange" is...

The definitive answer: The pro/nonPro status is determined by status of the person actually viewing the data not by the status of the beneficiary account. If the FA is acting in a professional capacity, for example is a registered FA or is charging for the advisory service, then the data...

We (IB) hope to have the first CME pit products online in 1-2 weeks. CBOT sometime therafter. NYMEX and NYBOT by end Q1, earlier with a little luck.

IB offers stock options, futures, index options, warrants, probably other things I have missed on all major European exchanges. Stock options arent avail in Spain or Italy, yet. EUREX (2 countries) EURONEXT (4 countries) IDEM Borsa Italiana LSE, etc...

Without responding specifically to OptionTrader's statements (which would involve inappropriate disclosures in a public forum), I would like to address some of the issues in principle and to clarify IB's approach to risk management. Box spreads are not risk free. They have interest risk, or...

We have thought about an "intraday margin" for FX positions but the problem is we treat an FX position just like any other asset denominated in a given currency. To the risk system, EUR cash and EUR denominated stock have the same currency risk. We don't distinguish between EUR generated as a...

OK, here's the issue with the AUD markets. It is effectively traded only against the USD directly. This is true for several currencies, including CAD and HKD. Even though EUR and JPY are super-majors, they still aren't as good as USD in terms of interbank liquidity against AUD (CHF, for...

We stop trading for 30 minutes from 1700-1730 EST because the liquidity providers stop to reset their systems after the clearing cycle begins off at 17:00. Our own technology is not the limiting factor. We may in fact increase the availability by restarting the platform at 17:15. We will be...

Answers to some questions/comments: "jumpy quotes": not all liquidity providers are giving us 1/2 tick prices. When there is improvement (or fade) from a 1-tick provider the spread can appear to be jumping out inordinately. But this should not be any different in reality than the situation...

Obviously, we check. We need to verify we even know the trade they call about. We have never, not once, seen a bust request wherein agreeing to the request would be profitable for our client. This would qualify as a charitable act, and trading is not (in my experience) a charity business. Ask...

Official Response: IB's policy regarding busts is as follows: If an exchange calls and requests a bust, IB ALWAYS says 'no'. This is for the benefit of our clients. You can assume nobody calls and asks to break a trade where they are the winner (i.e. the IB client is a loser). The exchanges...

IB is a broker. We are not a participant (except as agent) in any trade. We represent the client to the market. We have no vested interest in whether the bust creates a positive or negative impact as we act as a pas-though agent from the exchange in these matters. For the record, we are...

The event you described is 5 weeks old. I don't have the full set of data (and I can access to everything we have), specifically the detailed communication event logs, going back that far. We keep audit trails forever but communication transcripts (the raw data being sent with the timestamps on...

I have no way to evaluate these questions as presented. In order to understand a purported delay we need specific information to allow us to analyze various order trails, cross referencing to tick histories, etc. Real time is best. The next time you experience such problems, please send the...

It looks like we be rolling back to the old NASDAQ interface until they figure out why the reporting is so delayed.

We have been looking into this for about a week. The issue is in the trade reporting, not in the execution process. In other words, the orders are getting executed in a completely timely way, and you are getting the fills at the prices existent at time of order submission. However, NASDAQ's...

IB's is pleased to announce that IDEALPRO is now available from 19:30 EST to 17:00 EST covering 21.5 hours of the day. Within a 4-6 weeks we expect to bring this close to full 24 hour availability. In addition, we will be reducing the margin for [non-base] currency assets substantially and...