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Hey, thank you! I was hoping I wasn't the only one who noticed! Aaron Schindler Schindler Trading

Hey Def, a suggestion... When IB sends out these warning message emails saying "one or more futures or futures options in your account have an underlying for which IB cannot accept delivery. These contracts(s) are approaching either first notice or expiration dates..." it would be nice if...

This week I successfully replaced the stock fan on my graphics card with a much quieter ZEROtherm cooler: http://www.zerotherm.net/eng/product/GX700.asp It was a $20 upgrade and now my HP is SO much quieter. Fan and power supply upgrades aren't too difficult or expensive and can make a...

On a percentage basis, the move in oil was more than twice the move in equity indices. With apologies to Crocodile Dundee: "That's not a market, THIS is a market!"

Yes, I believe you can. How you transmit your orders to IB has no bearing on your commission rate. You independently pick bundled or unbundled from the Account Management screens at IB's website. Aaron Schindler Schindler Trading

Other than compatibility with other brokers, is there any advantage to FIX over IB's API? I always recommend something like Ninjatrader or TWSLink to newbie programmers wanting to automate their trading.

How about IB gets rid of the TWS autologoff "feature" before implementing the security device requirement? Then I could log in on Sunday and not have to mess with the security device for the rest of the week. Aaron Schindler Schindler Trading

Oh man, that Colbert guy is annoying! As much as I'm interested in hearing Nasim Taleb, I couldn't make it through the posted clip because of Colbert.

Good point, Uncertain. Schindler Trading's Break-even analysis, for example, shows estimated expenses of: 0.3% for market data, accounting, auditing, and legal expenses 2.0% for management fee (to Schindler Trading) 4.0% for brokerage commissions and exchange fees These are offset by an...

Thanks, GTS! I see you noticed our website was updated, as I haven't sent out our performance update email yet. Very observant!

I don't think the person was talking about Schindler Trading. At Schindler Trading we do our own fund administration in-house. So far, the cost of legal, accounting, and compliance has been included in our 2% management fee and investors have paid nothing additional. The only thing we can't...

I'm long Denver and up a bit on it. Go Denver! :)

If you do, please let us know what you find out.

You have a nice smooth equity curve, even though it goes down instead of up. Can you reverse what you are doing? Buy instead of sell, etc?

You aren't going to do any better than Interactive Brokers. Although you might enjoy the software available at Tradestation. And just curious -- how did you choose to post in the "Trading for a Living/Career Trader" forum? I might have picked "Direct-Access Brokers/Retail Firms". Maybe you...

First of all, legal advice on ET is worth what you pay for it. Secondly, I wouldn't think you'd have to register as a US CTA if you have no US clients. You could check with the NFA to be sure. I don't know if "CTA" is trademarked or whatever like "CFA" is. I always call myself a...

A commodity pool is just a partnership that happens to trade futures. Any book on partnership accounting will be useful. Check your local library or Amazon.com. The futures part of it is real easy: marked to market nightly, so all P&L is realized capital gains. Futures accounting is so...

It's a possibility. The situation would be a client who already has a relationship with another FCM. Give-ups add an additional layer of fees, so I recommend clearing accounts through Man Financial, where we will do our executions, to maximize returns. Aaron Schindler Schindler Trading

K-1's have to be created for the partners in partnerships (i.e. pools) and not for separately managed account owners. There is no tax preparation necessary by the CTA for separately managed accounts. Aaron Schindler Schindler Trading

Thanks, Tommy!