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    Please Help - Etrade cost me $2,500 today

    Hi, I'm quite confused where you saw that information. No accounts with IB are opened via Timber Hill. Timber Hill are not an introducing broker for IB. Australian residents would open an account with Interactive Brokers LLC. This is a US company, and is registered in Australia with ASIC...
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    FX Options

    You can trade options on the FX futures on Globex (www.cme.com), and you can trade the FX options on the PHLX (www.phlx.com). Both exchanges are available through IB.
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    IB - money market

    You may wish to consider at selling an EFP. Please take a look at the following links: http://www.interactivebrokers.com/en/trading/pdfhighlights/PDF-ExchPhysical.php? ib_entity=llc There is also a recorded webinar available here...
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    What is the Best FX Broker?

    True. However, we can accommodate larger per order size on a request basis. Although if you're trading more than the inside quote which is usually between $10m-$30m with IB, then you're probably better off working the order anyway.
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    What is the Best FX Broker?

    I disagree. Nevertheless, $200m at $5m per order is only 20 r/t's. If you require a larger order size than $5m then PM me. If you're in that size bracket then we also have a number of other developments that haven't been generally advertised that you would be interested in.
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    IB Charts - upgrade requests

    One customers "obvious suggestion", is another customers "pointless waste of time". The features poll enables us to quantify just how many customers consider a particular feature relevant and to better assign programming priority. We only have a finite number of programmers. Having a...
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    What is the Best FX Broker?

    IB is not targeting this segment of the market. If you are not actively trading and/or are trading small size then IB would not be on your short list. IB is targeting the active trader, who can comfortably meet our $10 per month in commissions (or you can cover this in data fees – for...
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    What is the Best FX Broker?

    You can trade from there. Just click on the quote, and this will set-up an order line, or you can configure it to immediately send an order when you click on the quote.
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    What is the Best FX Broker?

    Catie, You may wish to take a look at IB. I've attached a screenshot of the trading screen (taken 03:50EST,Jan9). Spreads are very tight and commissions range from $10-20 per million (0.1 - 0.2pips) depending on volume.
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    How do people get filled with odd spread?

    More info regarding the penny priced options: http://www.financialnews-us.com/index.cfm?page=ushome&contentid=1046738222
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    Trading and Exchanges: Market Microstructure for Practitioners

    You sold our Xmas present? :mad:
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    How do people get filled with odd spread?

    The penny pricing that is being introduced by the exchanges in January next year is only a 12 month pilot program and on 13 options classes only. For those of you that don't have IB accounts, you can view the markets for penny priced options (for free) at the following link...
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    Single Stock Futures - SSFs - opinions?

    This is worth reading if you are considering the SSF's as it highlights one of the main reasons to use them: http://www.interactivebrokers.com/en/trading/pdfhighlights//PDF-ExchPhysical.php?ib_entity=llc
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    COMEX - Globex FAT FINGER Dinger ?

    If you're talking about GCG7, Globex adjusted all trades above 632.0 to 632.0
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    Suggestion for IB: prompting customer if a trade will cancel other outstanding orders

    Please post it here: http://www.interactivebrokers.com/en/general/poll/poll.php?ib_entity=llc
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    IB new forex spreads

    That's the Beta webtrader, not the TWS. Select TWS from the Login dropdown. There's no TWS Beta today as this is now now the production version.
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    IB new forex spreads

    I don't think this has anything to do with the TWS. The TWS Beta 865 is now in production as the browser version (TWS 865.1). It works with IE7 - I'm using it now, along with Java 1.6.0 FYI...I can't see any tickets today from customers about this issue. (I presume the standalone 865...
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    IB & ECBOT stops

    Are you sure you're using TWS865 per my first post?
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    IB & ECBOT stops

    You can have different defaults for different contracts. You can check and amend these from the Order Defaults page in Configuration. The order defaults will have a setting for FUT, and if you drill down may also have settings for ZG and ZN - if the seperate contract is not specified then it...
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    IB & ECBOT stops

    System has been modified: From release notes for TWS865 http://www.interactivebrokers.com/en/software/releaseNotes/Betanotes.php?ib_entity=llc Allow Stop Orders on Ecbot and Nymex to Trigger Outside RTH You can now tag Stop orders on Nymex and Ecbot to trigger outside of regular trading...
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