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good thinking Mr Tiki Mr Cool, take all the money you have now and buy a nice gold sewn shroud so you will look cool

i opened short baterfly on spy just now. it works without calling compliancy department. i think this fact concludes the doubts in my sanity expressed previously :)

honestly this is not mine! (C) Austin Powers :))

I imagine it is pretty simple. exposure is limited and if you have balance enough the system will let you open the position.. Also the system shows me that next level is selling naked calls and that requires convertion your account to margin account. so I am sure the customer service girl...

Period huh? :)) just got approved to the credit spreads level with OX and my account (surprise!) is cash. I called them to double check - I am not affected by the day trading pattern rule... period! :) no rules. nada! nought! :P

I dont live in the US. no idea what IRA is. Irish Republican Army? are they giving away cash? Nice. whats their phone number?

IB has the most appaling support I ever experienced in my life..... they are schmucks. do you work for them, schmuck?

yes i understand that. thanks for the info.

EUU is quoted on ISE as an option symbol.... may be this is how it works on practice - brokers open you a margine account anyway for their own reasons. but technically speaking - you are buying an option contract and pay outright. you dont need margin to get long in options, do you? you...

Just found on old good wikipedia: "A FINRA (NASD) rule that applies to any customer who buys and sells a particular security in the same trading day (day trades), and does this four or more times in any five consecutive business day period; the rule applies to margin, but not to cash...

i know abt nxcore. but quite a bit is about 40 times to be more precise

You outta be a business analyst to goldman sachs CEO. you are such a clever guy!

it would be a very good broker if they had more than Java API... so they are just good

I dont get how they calculate comms. They say 0.2 bp * trade value, min 2.50 per order. and in the example they calculate monthly volumes. but what 'per order' does mean? if you trade 1 lot which is 25K (right?) the 25000 * 0.00002 = 0.5 hence the minimum applies and you pay 2.50 for such...

I called DTN IQFeed (which is regarded quite high in futures trading) and they apparently have no history for expired options contracts which is really stupid I think. Is there proper data feed with API or DDE who has at least a year of all options chains and have decent real time data...

nah.. but you were right about MB http://www.mbtrading.com/optionsAccountRequirements.aspx They welcome all the nice people around the world including st kitts and nevis. but brits must go and enjoy themselves... have to look up the immigration quotes in st kitts

why would I be looking for US broker to trade UK products? :) anyway. I got the picture. thanks

Could someone please tell if FX options traded on ISE and PHLX (like FXE or EUU) which arent really options on FX spot but some kind of ETFs I think.... Are they under the US day trading pattern rule i.e. you have to have 25K balance to be able to trade more than once a week?

I have/had number of accounts in my trading life and they all are in US and all are futures and I am sure none of the brokers has nothing to do with FSA and have no offices in the UK. Is it something to do with equties/options?

What I really want is: 1. to chart pnl and greeks for hypothetical trades in past based on real historical data (backtesting) 2. to chart pnl and greeks for my open trades Ideally I want to have access to the historical and real-time market data and open positions information through...