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Two questions; *Was this your first option trade with them? *Would you have raised question #3 if that "trade" was in the red?

From the requirements you have given above it seems that Interactive Brokers is a good choice. They have a few ways to trade with them you can use their "heavy" client which is called TWS or you can use a web based client. What I like with them is that you can easily add more thingies to...

USD against SEK (Swedish krona) ^^^^^ :D

I agree papertrading gives nothing, sometimes i use it just to see whats gonna change in the acct, cash, margin etc.

Glad it worked out. To rephrase my question, how much experience is needed for them to enroll you for futures trading. Do they take novice 0 years experience. (Wanna start out with 1 ES contract). Good trading to ya all. Br Gustaf

How much experience did you tell them youve had when asking for trading permisson?

Any free demo futures trading account?

Cool.

Read my question again! :D No, I was talking about many brokers not having FUTURE OPTIONS available for trading. Iam well aware that there are a vast array of option contracts out there. Br

About the limit moves, how often does it happen? In McMillans book its says its absoultely mandatory to know how to protect your self from this by using future options, then this raises an interesting question, many futures brokers dont seem to offer options on futures. ?

If its suitable to use options instead of stop orders then they would work. But offcourse they cost premium. Protects you against a big crash.

Here you go my friend, code supplied by codegod! :D --------- Set these fields -------- contract.symbol = "ES" // or "YM" contract.secType = "FUT" contract.expiry = "20071220" contract.exchange = "GLOBEX" contract.primaryExchange = "GLOBEX" contract.currency="USD"...

Or when your sloppy Java GUI is consuming 99% for NO REASON. Btw C++ have exception handling too!

C++ is king when it comes to performance, ask any game programming company what they are using.

You cannot say like that, come one options have strike prices, near strikes have higher chances of doubling. Options on volatile market also have higher chances of doubling.

Sometimes you cannot get out, what if the market gap downs. Its better to go with put spreads as someone already said above.

I agree to most of the things you have written above but as a side note I can just add that getting started and having a little scalper that automatically placed orders was not complicated nor took a long time for me to do in C++. Id say use the language which is most comfortable. As segv...

If you wanna pay TAX on your cpu cycles then Java. If not C++ :)

This is money that you get in the end of the month. :D

That happened to me to! I also had some big holes during mars-april. Fortunately I played with verticals not nakeds.. May I ask how many contracts you had there?