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I took this as someone large got caught short and asked their buddies at the exchange to bail them out.

Not sure this works in the UK ... but you can open a financial advisor acct and then have the entity as a sub-acct. Since the actual financial advisor is not an entity you pay non pro fees. The fees are paid based on the advisor not the sub accts.

Last Friday's settlement was about 1.64 but the actual last trade was around 1.6520. Just wondering if this was some game they were playing there or if there was an actual reason. They really need to get rid of the limits ... let the volatility flow like a fine wine....

Dispute the charge with the credit card. Another option is to let them know you'll be setting up the briefingripoff.com website and doing your best to publicize what a scam they are. Also have a friend call them and claim to be from a news station and say they want to do a story on the...

What is up with the cotton settlement? Why is it seemingly lower than the actual final price?

What are the commissions like at MF global? Say if you trade 100 contracts round trip per month?

IB does not allow trading of foreign commodities for US customers. They say the CFTC does not allow it but the CFTC website says they do (they only restrict foreign index futures). Still waiting for IB to check into this.

Can anyone recommend a retail broker with decent commissions that supports trading of exotic foreign futures such as Tokyo Grain Exchange, Malaysia Derivatives Exchange or some of the Chinese commodity exchanges? Or Brazil? I am not necessarily looking for rock bottom commissions (although...

I tried to enter a trade against the MATIF exchange in France in my IB account and the trade was rejected with the message "No trading permission, regulatory restriction". I was under the impression that foreign commodities (wheat, gold, etc.) could be traded at will, but that foreign...

I actually have some real decent profits in the LLC this year, so I am considering giving half my 50% stake in the LLC to my wife (leaving us each with 25%) and allowing her to contribute her part of the gains to a 401k (so we could each contribute instead of just me). I don't see why this...

OK but when I log back in normally (not remote desktop) the frame is still gone. Yes I can work around it, just annoying. No workaround for the scroll bar though.

While the bitch session continues about TWS, is there any way to get rid of the vertical scroll bar? I cannot get rid of it, even if I try to delete all the empty grid rows that scroll off the screen. I can't get rid of all of them it won't let me. Also once I connect to my PC via remote...

Via chat IB said there's no problem, the woman from IB even looked up the new trustee's ACAT number to verify they can work together. So now it has me wondering if the problem was at IB or at the trustee. Consider how badly the trustee f**cked up my other account opening it will be...

With all the IB bashers on this board, not a single person has used an ACAT to withdraw money from IB?

Earlier this year I tried to open a second IRA account and transfer some of my IRA funds from IB to another broker via a partial ACAT (for only about 20% of the account). IB refused to send the funds via ACAT and I eventually just withdrew the funds and deposited them in the new IRA...

Wow this whole thread reminds me of the story about one of the turtle traders who did poorly and decided it wasn't that he didn't follow the system, it was that Dennis was instead secretly giving info to the other traders. There was zero willingness to share blame for his own failures...

I did. I got sick of errors preventing me from entering orders over the weekend. And I was not able to trade several products listed on their website, and nobody could give me an answer why. Oh and they don't have FA accounts or anything similar (unless they've recently added it).

Interesting, I hadn't realized that. Would stop limits (which are native) protect against this (using a stop price far enough away to almost always guarantee a fill)? Of course at IB only market and limit orders are native for ICE...will check if that is at ICE or only at IB....

I noticed and tested further to confirm that my fills in identical stop orders (stop orders in futures on ICE/NYBOT and NYMEX/GLOBEX) are worse with IB than with OEC. Since I'd expect maybe a 50/50 split the fact that the IB fills are ALWAYS worse makes me think the FA allocation (I have an FA...

Maybe that's why the blog looked just like his other posts. Maybe he's not the stalker. Maybe...