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You seriously don't think there's a spread in futures or equities? Any liquidity takers in such markets are paying the spread. And please don't tell me you'll be a 100% passive liquidity provider in every single scenario. 2) Both spot and futures markets have sufficient leverage available...

Thanks. I suspected there'd be no difference. Yeah, I can't see how the site has been broken for so long without people noticing.. IB should jump on that.

I'm guessing there's no difference in margin requirements between for futures on US and Canadian IB accounts... but just in case IIROC has some special rules, I tried looking up the margin requirements today and was met with this: IB, please fix your site.

Maybe AMP won the lawsuit.. :P

The spam is getting out of hand. Without first post moderation, people are just carpet bombing this forum with affiliate links or promotional material. Even if you remove the offending posts within a day, site visitors still end up clicking through links on these posts.. so an economic...

Why not roll that rig into mining other crypto currencies that are still viable via GPUs? Then just exchange it back to bitcoins...

To Advantage from IB for futures? What lead up to that decision?

If you truly believe that you, as a retail trader, have an advantage over your peers... then getting a better fill through this method might be to your benefit. Think about it. The whole reason pay-for-orderflow exists is because market makers feel retail order flow is safe (and thus, they are...

You are grossly underestimating how much volume is done by institutional players in the equities market. (Hint: Retailers are lightweights compared to institutional buy-side.)

Sounds like indirectly dragging pay for order flow type setups into lit markets... this actually might be a positive thing if you think about it.

Holy crap... limiting isn't even the right word; chopping your ATS' legs off describes it better.

Because he wants to pay extra spread, extra commissions, and the net negative carry interest. Not to mention any additional costs involved with opening and funding a 2nd account. The broker is happy to let him.

I like calling it 'Nedging' ... N(ewbie)(h)edging

I also can be found on: http://fxgears.com/

Number 2. But seriously speaking, toss another vote in for Win 7 over Win 8.

Holy crap.. you said something I actually strongly, strongly agree with. Maybe I'm just getting old and set in my ways, but I find myself the most productive on 'desktop metaphor' user interfaces when it comes to workstations. Regardless of the OS in question.

To be clear, I mean "clients" as in desktop trading stations, as opposed to servers... not people asking me to code for them or hiring me.

This says "FX" but most of this guy's bank account came from sports bet arb plays: http://www.reddit.com/r/casualiama/comments/207y3m/i_am_a_university_failure_turned_fx_and_arbitrage/

When you look at a chart and go "this is trending" or "we're ranging", are you not making a bet that price will continue to move the same? Is this not your anticipation or prediction? In hind sight the chart appears to trend, you bet that trend continues, by doing so you're predicting it...