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I wish I had a source but I believe that there is a 10% stamp tax on all stock trading, similar to British stocks. Japan has a tradition of protecting domestic markets while aggressively expanding into foreign markets. This leads me to a thought, you could check out British spreadbetters to see...

Which Swift locations are doing arb? I'd love to trade their if they had a decent setup and a few good people around. Last time I stopped in on the Cambridge location there was only two people in a big industrial room.

I agree with you for the most part but it is important to point out that many contracts are very asymmetrical. Consider as basic put or call contract-unlimited versus limited upside or even your car insurance. This is why there are trading desk to insure risk and then spread it out. It is a...

Biased socialist rubbish. "If only enlightened socialist elites from California applying the scientific method were in charge we wouldn't need of of this money grubbing"

Excellent thread keep up the good work. I really like the bits in french because people have been considerate enough to only use the few french words I know-except for that one phrase that I use at 2am in Montreal.

One of you guys trying to buy at 1.1675? I can see the order on IB. I think were in for a couple of days of quiet consolidation. There could be a year end rally in $C due to year end position squaring.

University is training for the corporate world. Trading is an entrepreneurial undertaking where you must draw on all of you life experience. One thing that nobody will tell you when you finish school is that you are about to enter the hardest stage of you life. Your either over or under...

One of the most interesting things to do is think about what strategy would have worked yesterday. Once you come up with a strategy go look at a chart and see if it would have worked. It is interesting how much different the markets can behave then how you perceive them

could someone from IB comment here?

The free scanner on cnbc website, you know the one you have heard the commercial for a thousand times, is actually really good

Is anybody else having trouble with the getting the TWS to come up tonight? When I click on "TWS" from the pull down menu I get an error message. I then clicked on "load as an applet" and it took two tries to get that to work. I am just curious as to whether it is my computer of a problem with IB?

Thanks guys. They grow a lot of feed barley in Lethbridge. There is even a future for Lethbridge delivery on Winnipeg. They also grow alot of wheat and I am trying to get more information on types and usage. I farm in Ontario and things are different out west. They also grow pulse crops in...

The cost advantage doesn't come from fees per trade but the ability to have open orders to both buy and sell at the same time and not having to large cancelation fees. It is very hard to get good enough fills to make a strategy that requires constant adjustment pay, mostly due to never being in...

I don't mean to sound like a gloomy gus but does anybody REALLY trade fibs? Could you imagine if I came on here and said that rabbit breeding patterns are to key to predicting market direction, the flaming would go on for days.

I just got a call from a friend of my from Leftbridge Alberta. He is heading up a group of farmers who have formed a marketing group. I have suggested that they use the "portable alpha" approach. That is that they lock in the price of the crop for 95% of their cash flows and use 5% of cash flows...

What would kids who grew up as hard core gamers do with there money when they get older in a country saturated with high speed internet connection?

24 hour trading would be great in the big names like cisco and microsoft but small cap/float stocks would be open to all sorts of manipulation that would be detrimental to the long term health of the capital markets. If any one really wants to trade 24 hours a day there is plenty of opportunity...

My analysis of gold stocks suggests that the upside in profits as already been promised to the managements in the form of stock options. Goldcorp is one company that is very option heavy. Just beware that if a company has a P/E of 12 and can produce an ounce for $100 that there is a reason for...

Thanks Steve, I looked at the time and sales and that is what happened. It was more obvious when I calmed down.

I know part of the story is the margin rules for futures makes it more capital efficient to trade options, to a greater extent than with other contracts. Of course that doesn't account for all of the massive volume. Anyone else have any ideas?