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since futures accounts aren't insured like securities accounts are with SIPC, anyone have experience with how market crashes affect the liquidity cushion of futures brokers? I'm with Tradestation, who clears through RJ Obrien. Obviously RJ Obrien made it through the 2000 crash. Anyone remember...

IB has that commission. I think you should just trade at home instead of at a shop.

you can daytrade futures with any amount of capital, no 25k minimum. the leverage in futures lets you possibly make more money with less. but you can also lose much more with less capital. you should practice first with futures as many beginners in futures leverage up too much and blow up. you...

if you have risk capital and like trading the markets, open a futures account at IB or tradestation and start trading for your self.

cut him some slack, if anything Timmay knows how to sell himself on wall street. enough so to get on TV regularly. I don't think I could do that. he's got an interesting story and I'm looking forward to reading it. Timmay, have you thought about trading futures? more liquid than penny stocks.

I had IB side by side with TS before and TS was fine. TS gives you every tick, I think IB gives you bundled quotes every 1/4 second or so iirc? I trade on TS now, and it's fine for my purposes. don't know how tight you scalp the ticks. I love TS, except their interest rate sucks.

Tradestation worked great. no hiccups in data and the trades executed as expected.

no. you can get a dual core for about same price at dell.

TS is fine. I had IB and TS running side by side for almost a year. I've never noticed a difference or lag w/ TS. the quotes and bid/ask are same. in fact, the only quotes that I can remember freezing is IB. TS has blanked out overnight when I kept it on, but I've yet to get frozen quotes w/ TS.

no, I already have TS up and running. I was in the process of closing my account anyways and had already drawn out most of the money in the account. it's just a pain that it would break right at the end.

my IB token just stopped working out of the blue. I've sent it back to them and will be closing my account. pain in the butt because I can't do anything without it.

I've used both IB and TS. I've settled on TS now. TS commissions are comparable, but doesn't have volume discount like IB's unbundled rates. TS interest rates are terrible at 1% vs IB's 5%. But the platform is worth it imo. I use it to trade and use a 5% yielding etrade bank account to park...

I've used 2 simpletech ext hd's, they were both loud. the 2 I had vibrated pretty much and made the table vibrate. I'd go with seagate which are much quieter.

why not use logmein.com? run logmein on the home computer with tradestation or trading programs. then access it with logmein on iphone. I'd be interested in how that works out.

Can other people confirm their RT commission for ER2 is $4.80 at IB? Thanks

on the other hand, the survey group may be self selecting. ie if a daytrader makes enough money consistently over a long period of time, they won't be interviewing, they'll work for themselves. the people who seek out interviews may have had a hot streak and want to get paid for it, or can't...

dang, now we have to pay more for the NYBOT data feed on Tradestation. but the exchange fee gets cut down by more than 1/3. I hope it doesn't screw everything up.

Tradestation doesn't clear their own futures trades. So they go through RJ Obrien. Anyone have an opinion of how stable/safe RJO is? Since futures accounts aren't insured, I worry. IB sweeps the cash from futures accounts into an insured account every night. I wish TS did the same.

My wife doesn't like the stand so have to sell it. Stand is an ergotron. $800 + shipping. It's very flexible. I had a 30" with 5 x 22" lcd's. It can hold 6 x 24". What I did was shift the arms out a little to accomodate the 22's with the 30". From the looks of it, I could have fit the 30" along...

want to buy my stand? similar to this: http://digitaltigers.com/zenview-commandcenterelite.shtml