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Hi, Does anyone know of any other firm besides Interactive Brokers, that allows you to trade both futures and forex products from the same account/platform? Thanks.

Thanks!

Thanks for the reply. Is that 5pm Eastern? I'm in the Central time zone.

How about for the EURO exchange rate? Isn't that the EUR/USD forex price?

What's the charge for the wire?

When do settlement prices get calculated on IB statements? The Euro Currency futures and the EURO conversion rate, do not match on my futures or FOREX chart. Thanks.

I just saw the "Hold" and it will be available only on MONDAY!!! That's ridiculous!!

Does anyone know how long it takes for IB to clear deposits? This ISN'T an initial deposit to open an account, I am just adding additional funds. I put the request Sunday morning. I did a ACH/EFT transfer. It says "Notified" in the "Funds Status" tab. Thank you.

Yeah, that's what I figured too. Would my margin be lowered, if I add a short EUR futures contract?

I'm having a hard time understanding that page too. If I go long 1 (125,000) EUR/USD pair at, let's say, 1.2718. What would be my margin? Your help is greatly appreciated!!!!

Try this for economic reports: http://biz.yahoo.com/c/e.html This will give you on a weekly basis. For earnings reports, try: http://biz.yahoo.com/research/earncal/today.html This gives it to you in a daily basis. Good luck!

Anyone dare take a guess at what the market is going to do next?? Will we ever see a break??? We need some kind of retracement. I would love a good 20 point down day on the S&Ps...rather than a up!! :)

I'll be 21 on Sunday. I trade options on S&P Futures contract

I just noticed that. Today, SPX closed down 3.64 but the VIX also closed down 0.42!! How would one read that?? Also, does anyone have a weird spike on their VIX chart? I have a low of 10.54 on the first bar of the 60 minute chart? Thanks.

Hi, I don't have any options programs(ex. OptionVue), to calculate my margin requirement on futures options trades. I especially would like to know how to calculate the margin requirement for naked options (E-mini S&P). You obviously can't calculate it exactly because of SPAN, but I'm...

Hi, I'm thinking of getting my feet wet with the new EOM S&P options. Like others, I'm worried about the volume. Could I get a decent fill on my orders? Has anyone had any experience with the EOM S&P Options - $250/pt (EV)? Thanks for your help.

I don't know about books. But a good place to start learning about the futures market is Investopedia.com (www.investopedia.com). I learn most of my trading information from that site, the fundamentals atleast. I am trading options on futures right now. I feel that I have been more...

That's happened to me. When writing an email. If your arm does misbehave again and hits the ESC button. You can hit ALT+Z with the other arm, to retrieve the message. Give it a shot and see what happens. :)

One more thing I wanted to add.... Another advantage to the SPAN margin, is that the strike spread do not have to be the same. In your position that you mentioned, the spread between the short and long legs are 15 pts. That's how you get your Reg-T margin. But, with SPAN, your spread does not...

To put on the 1210/1295 Iron Condor on the futures market, the margin will be a lot less. I would say by more than 3 times. But, if the market does approach your short strikes, the margin will increase. So watch out for that. There are a lot of other brokerage firms that allow trading on SP...