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Too greedy to lower their fees. :D

You are wrong, it works great. About 2 weeks ago, I got Euros from my account with "base currency" USD (within 36 hrs).

Market goes electronic step by step: 1. ZX (Bonds/Notes side-by-side elctronic & pit, CBOT) 2. QM, QG (e-miNY, NYMEX) 3. YG, YI, YE (Mini-Sized, CBOT) 4. ZX (Ag side-by-side electronic & pit, CBOT) BTW, step #4 was Jan 02, 2004 (ZC, ZS, ZW, ZL, ZM, ZR, ZO).

I would recommend to run TWS build 814 or 816 to avoid those quote issues. www.interactivebrokers.com/html/User_Manual/Release_Notes/Notes_Index.htm

About 20 seconds from pushing the button to open the chat window (IB-Corinne: "How can I help you ?")

Hitman now with FXCM. Of course Baron will let him come back.

The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) approved the BOX trading rules as proposed by the Boston Stock Exchange (BSE) on January 14, 2004. BOX presently plans to commence trading on its first five options classes at the opening on Friday morning, January 30, 2004. (...) The first five...

1 week left ...

www.cbot.com/cbot/pub/page/0,3181,1084,00.html See "Product Algorithms" (PDF file).

What do you expect to "see" at a rate of maybe 10 or 20 trades per second ? There will be nothing else than a "colored spot" on your screen which means: "lots of ES contracts are currently trading at different price levels".

What did you use before REFCO Pro (maybe X_Trader) ? How would REFCO Pro compare to something like X_Trader ? Thanks for any comments !

I would use REFCO Pro for electronic markets REFCO Xpress for open outcry markets

Xpress is the "Lind Waldock thing", see: www.lind-waldock.com/tools/tl_lindxpresscd.shtml ( might be slow ... )

What do they charge for their platforms ? Something like $1.00 per RT ?

They are simulated since A/C/E was replaced by ECBOT. For simulated stops there is a default setting: "regular trading hours" (AFAIK defined as 9:30 am to 4 pm ET on "regular trading days"). If you want to avoid trouble with "regular" trading hours" then you will have to change your TWS...

CQG price also depends on location. They want to be paid in "strong Euros" by their European customers.

My studies show that there is no way to deliver streaming quotes (like JTrader does), because it would take up way too much bandwith. TWS designers allow 40 symbols per page with snapshot quotes. With streaming quotes this would shrink down to maybe 4 or 6 symbols per page. And customers with...

Yes, I do. :p TWS tries to contact IB´s "update server" to check for software updates before you see the login box. There seems to be no response from that IP since yesterday. The delay that you (and me) noticed is basically a "time out" (no response from update server). But I think they...

You can enter (and execute) trades without quotes. LIFFE for instance has such ridiculous monthly fees !

Gold mining stocks ? :confused: