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O.K my two cents... Fistly I dont represent this company in any way. Do your own due diligence. This is not invetstment advice blah blah. Platinum specialises in selective stock picking. Its international fund has averaged 17.42 percent per year for the last 10 years without a down year. The...

Thanks Def.

ie. option spread is approximately one fifth of the futures spread for the same sized position (ie 5 option contracts.. Am I reading this right.

And would the same rule apply to the options. The penny has finally dropped with me that the option is effectively much cheaper to trade because the spread is five dollars for a position in the futures that is 25.

Ok. I was looking at the wrong index. Now it makes more sense.. Now Def, lets say I was long one contract and wanted to get net short one contract by selling two contracts with one hit of the button. In this instance would IB require the margin for the 2 contract sell ie twice the margin of...

One more thing. Is the software that runs the dead mans switches pinging the trading server custom built code or is it a commercial product?

Excellent. Really good stuff. That is something I couldnt of conceived of myself mainly because its hard to find information about such things

So then is the future value one tenth of the index value like with the spiders because if it wasnt it would be a 600k contract which its obvioulsly not. ie is it 133.3 when the index is 1333 with each future point worth 500. Right?

Im actually really quite interested in trading these things. The moves seem good in contrast to the US markets. Is the option spread between the bid and ask one tick? What is the value of one tick in USD. Are the futures spreads 1 tick also? Thanks.

Def. Could you please tell us the multiplier value for the Kospi futures. The IB website states the multiplier as 500000 won which is 500 dollars. Is this correct?It sounds very high. Thanks...

http://www.indexfuturos.com click system development option

StephenCrowley, could you elaborate on how you can get the system to page you if your away from the house to inform you that the quote feed has disconnected for more than one second. This is a failsafe I would like to look into but I am unsure about exactly how to monitor the connection and even...

Norm. I have two pieces of advice for you. Number 1 is to get a dual wan router which is a device which allows two different internet connection to function as 1 which means if one disconnects the other picks up the slack and you dont lose your connection. Linksys do good versions of these. Also...

Tradestation, Global Futures, and Velocity Futures ( see broker reviews section) has forex through the Hotspot ECN as well as all futures. Margins are lower than IB at all three.

For anyone who is currently trading prop : if I am long 300 shares and want to make myself net short 300 shares by executing a 600 share sell order will the margin required by the house reflect the NET margin ie 300 shares now short or would I need enough buying power for the full 600 shares...

Thanks for the replies. I think Ive decided to recode it in metatrader 4. Heres where you can get your forex ideas programmed for less than 200 bucks.... http://www.metatradertools.com/prices.shtml?id=1

O.k This question is for anyone with experience programming the easy API excel blog specifically with regards to linking it with Interactive Brokers.. Is it possible to create a spreadsheet which sends orders to Interactive Brokers Globex servers. Specifically I want it to do just one thing...

Thanks for the input guys. Just in case anyone is interested I thought Id list the names of some stocks that have made it my final list of tradeable names... BRCM NVDA KLAC AMGN SEPR SYMC GS LEH LEN RIMM SU SUN SNDK QCOM QLGC. These are all quality names. Trade large volume and have good...

Thanks for the replys. Ive been looking at stock trading for a while and I honestly think that for people who are still finding there feet that its a really good way to find out if your good enough. Basically if you arm yourself with the fundamantals of good strategy then you can find out for...

Hi there.. Does anybody know if there is a way that I can simulate actual stock trading. Im looking to practice trading the opening couple of hours and Im hoping I can find some accurate way of demo trading before I try anyhthng live. One option I was considering was using an interactive brokers...