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-Yes, you will get interest on the leveraged amount. -Interest is paid once a month, but accrues on a daily basis. -You are comparing IB's June interest rate to your current interest rate. US rates were raised two weeks ago, so the IB rate for July should be higher.

pipscooper, Look at this way, in your example: "For instance I buy 125,000 units of EUR/USD at 1.2. The commission is .00002 per side in the denominated currency. Now logically I would multiply .00002 x 125,000 to get the minimum commission $2.5 per side." 125,000 is in Euro's, so...

From the Website, under Fees >> Commissions >>Forex: "Commissions for Forex exchanges will be charged in the trading currency (denomination of the currency being paid to purchase a currency, or being received when selling a currency)." (C$ in your case, assuming you are using IDEAL-Pro, in...

You can just set it up on a per order basis. Here's a better way to do it: 1. Set-up order. 2. Right click on order 3. Select: Modify >> Trigger Method 4. Choose the Trigger Method you want 5. Send the order. If you're unsure about it then you can test it using simulated stop-limit...

1. Yes 2. You can set it up on a per order basis. Click on the line of the symbol you want to trade, Open an Order Ticket and you can easily view all the options.

There's no offset, so you'll need to put up margin for each seperately. Approx. $3,000 (125,000x1.2001x0.02) for the EuroFX position. For the option it will be variable, so best to use the Check Margin function on the TWS.

Correct, you don't see this happen because the other brokers takes the other side of all trades. With IB, all market participants can trade with each other. Sure, we could allow supertiny size, but it's more likely to annoy the majority of traders, would you like to see an inside market which...

It's a different model. IB's is an ECN type model where everyone can trade with each other. I don't think we'll be very popular to the client who posts a $1m bid, and then gets hit by traders selling him $1 a time! The other firms don't mind to offer this, because you are always trading...

IB have it (www.interactivebrokers.com)

Priority: 1. Price 2. Time

Equity with Loan Value is used for margin purposes. Your available funds, excess liquidity and buying power calculations use the Equity with Loan Value. Use the definition from your account window as that will be for your account. Net Liquidation value is your total account worth.

There is a User Guide here, which gives all the definitions: http://www.interactivebrokers.com/php/webhelp/webhelp.htm You can also switch on the Help button form the Account Management window. This will also give you the definitions when you move your cursor over the name.

We have a multi-dealer platform. You can also interact with the market, i.e. you can post a bid between the spread and it will be displayed to the dealers and other IB clients. Check out the screenshot which I took a couple of minutes ago.

This is a Helpdesk issue: http://www.interactivebrokers.com/en/general/contact/contact.php?ib_entity=llc http://www.interactivebrokers.com/en/general/contact/bestService.php?ib_entity=llc

We offer EuroFX and JPY options. We'll offer the other options on currency pair futures when they are electronic.

Yes that's correct, it will be submitted as native order. You should use the Comb type. The quote will show the spread quote if there is one. If there isn't, then it will show the implied quote. We will have the market data fixed shortly, in the mean time, you should know that you can...

www.nymex.com has QM data. I believe average volume is around 15,000. www.theipe.com has data for COIL. Daily volume is over 100,000

This is a market data issue affecting a few servers. We put in a fix last night which should solve the issue for a good portion of the affected customers. The rest will be fixed in the next TWS release. Please note that you should still be able to place orders on the spread. It is only the...

Coming in a few weeks..... :D

Not sure about Clearport, I haven't been involved with the set-up, although I haven't heard of any issues. The QM August is the last contract to be listed on the Globex platform - this expires 13:30 CT on July 19th. Fortunately the IPE contract is around, just in case.