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I trade the following from Tokyo: TSE TOPIX futures Hong Kong HSI futures Eurex DAX/EuroSTOXX/Bund futures S&P eMinis Dow YM minis (on occasion) Various CME currency futures (mainly JPY, EUR, GBP)

I am not a tax expert but I understand that it applies to both. However, I also believe that there can be some special circumstances regarding "spot" but in general Section 1256 includes any regulated futures contract, any foreign currency contract and I have received information in the past...

I believe that in most cases currency trades are treated like Section 1256 contracts for tax reporting purposes and the reporting is usually done on a total net profit basis (I believe they are reported on From 6871). They are also afforded special tax treatment. You should go to the IRS...

Are you asking if you should trade the Nikkei (which is an index) or are you asking about trading products from the Japan exchanges? IB provides access to the Topix futures from the Tokyo Stock Exchange and the Nikkei 225 futures from the Osaka Stock Exchange. One of the problems you will...

And the connection to trading is.......?

Just to add another view, attached is a copy of the way I learned risk of ruin.

They have indicated in the eSignal Central forum many times that they are planning on providing this in the future (many requests have already been made).

Wednesday, March 10, 2004 Fukui: Sharp Forex Moves Make Fighting Deflation Harder TOKYO(Dow Jones)--Bank of Japan Governor Toshihiko Fukui said Wednesday that government efforts to curb the yen's strength through intervention were in line with BOJ policy, as sharp exchange rate moves...

It is true.

You can also do this by creating "hot keys" directly in TWS (I believe under Configure/Hot Keys from the menu). You can also set order defaults by specific product such that you can create a generic order with an attached stop order and it will alter the stop placement depending which product...

Your daily statement (from IB) will post the transaction summary by each currency with an additional column that also shows the amount in your base currency (e.g., US$) translated at that day's rate (rates will be posted at the bottom of the statement).

To answer your last question from your original message, I frequently copy and paste a list of symbols from Excel into a quote window. Usually they are scan files that I have downloaded into Excel and then after some more filtering I copy and paste the remaining symbols into eSignal.

Actually: http://forum.esignalcentral.com/showthread.php?s=&threadid=6947

I have no comments about the course but I can tell that in no way would it be worth it. Think about it: $3000 for 2 DAYS!?

No, you cannot trade the KOSPI in the US now but hopefully in the not too distant future.

You can try the following link to the NASD site which has quite a bit of information on the exam such as qualifications, locations and fees. http://www.nasdr.com/qualifications.asp

You can do a search here on EliteTrader (e.g., "beginner trader", "new trader", etc.) and there should be tons of advice already available from previous posts and will give you lots of material to sort through.

Just one example of the information out there: http://stockcharts.com/education/IndicatorAnalysis/indic_VIX.html The article is a little old and as mentioned, the VIX is now calculated using the S&P 500 options (VXO is the "new" symbol for the "old" VIX [S&P 100]). In addition to the VXN...

I use IB and trade from Japan and have no problems. Nana Trader is right; from my experience in traveling throughout Asia, there is no discernible difference in DSL from country to country. You have to worry more about what level of service you receive and pricing. However, you say you are...

Also, I did not have any problems when upgrading.