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The broker has to support trading in the specific contracts even for supported exchanges, for example Amp does not allow trading in 6M Mexican Peso futures, BTC Bitcoin futures, or TN 10 Year Ultra T Note Futures last I checked. BTW, where can one trade the Bitcoin perpetual contracts or a way...

What's a good alternative for US traders, for perpetual/longer term holding bitcoin contracts with leverage/margin?

The broker reports the gains for tax purposes anyway by law

Can someone clarify/confirm what is the current day trade vs overnight margins on futures in IRA accounts, and when do they change? Is it clearly documented anywhere?

Just found out about this today with a rejected order to place a trade. Zero communication from IB. Contact of support provided nothing other than its no longer allowed, permanent change. Very disappointing. Anyone know another broker that allows futures in a Roth IRA, through an API?

Interesting, would love to see a picture or two of the work space/layout, and learn more if you don't mind sharing. Which Herman Miller chair, which monitor trees, and how do the multi focal contacts help? Thanks in advance.

What are the issues with Rithmic data?

How useless. Why don't they make a 100 lot contract?

Can anyone who trades CL using this method share some charts of recent trades they took and explain them?

Haven't seen any advantage in seeing the 10 deep view. I would like if they could improve the stability. In case of a connection drop, an auto-reconnect rather than the application crashing would be nice.

So all the people posting these experiences of money missing from their accounts, accounts being locked down for no reason, outright theft, etc are all making it up for fun? Just read the reviews and comments: http://www.forexpeacearmy.com/public/review/www.interactivebrokers.com...

I have read reviews online of similar things happening at IB as well, wonder how often stuff like this happens....it could happen anywhere. Makes you weary about your account balances...

I think you may have a good point...but I'm wondering: In the end, what practical purpose do these ultra fast unfiltered tick feeds serve (especially to discretionary point and click in the DOM traders), if they freeze/hang/bottleneck the software/PC? Will someone who is even scalping for...

I have seen similar strange issues charting on ninja/zenfire, price on chart will be 1 tick off other feeds like TOS/TransAct which will match each other, re-load doesn't help. I have heard sometimes a repair db and computer reboot fixes these issues. Will these issues be fixed in V7?

Is the faster speed on ZF over TT useful if not scalping? What type of risk control is available from Zenfire? From what I understand they do not allow you to set your own max loss limits/higher margins to protect capital other than what the broker does. What is the $600 fee on ZF? Have...

Thanks for your reply. Where in the settings can the market limiter be adjusted?

It's an issue for me simply in terms of too much risk for my account size. On the Pound, I can risk 1.5% of my account per trade with a 12 pip stop, while on the Euro the same trade risks 3% of my account. If I were to get 2 stop outs on the Euro in a day, which could easily happen, even on a...

I meant just flattening just before the 5pm est currency futures close to avoid gap risk/re-entering stops, after that overnight during europe hours seems to have the biggest moves and volatility, seems like a nice time to trade 6E and 6B. Why do you recommend 6E first? I do like 6E as...

Can you elaborate please? Seems to work ok for me, although it lacks some features, but curious to see what I'm missing.

Could you elaborate please, what risk control? Is there any automated risk management possible for individual traders, ie if max daily loss limit then flatten and cancel orders, etc? Also, what $500 fee for all markets? Isn't all the zenfire data free for funded accounts?