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Ehlaban, Trading one NQ contract electronically is approximately like trading 800 QQQ shares on Island ECN at 5:1 margin. Fast, liquid, no downtick, more leverage. Risk, volatility, price movement of one NQ - almost same as for trading 800 QQQ shares. Fohat

There has been a lot of discussions on elite trader about the new margin rules. Check out http://www.elitetrader.com/vb/showthread.php?threadid=1551 , the New Daytrading rule in September 01' thread. Fohat

Correct, the exact date it takes effect is Sept. 28, 2001. Futures on Individual stocks will be allowed to trade in late December 2001. Fohat

Look at the preopen futures values, which will give you a general sense where the market will open. Check out at what price the stock is trading on the most liquid ECNs : Instinet, Island, Redibook. You can get this info free for Island ECN from ...

jonper, Yes, it's possible and acceptable to use this second cpu's hard drive to back up the hard drive of the main cpu. Another method is to buy a Mobile Hard Drive Rack ($9 and up) and use hard drive/s instead of Zip, Jazz or CD-R/W drives. With prices less than $2/Gigabyte per...

drdr, Yes you can. To do that, you can use a programm for Resizing harddisk partitions (In your case you have two hard drive partitions C: and D:). I have successfully used Partition Magic to resize disk partitions. It was pretty easy, I had to select a partition and click on the Resize...

Coops, Interactivebrokers (IB) obtains and displays quotes directly from the ECNs or exchanges, while Datek streamer data (through QT) simply rebroadcasts Nasdaq Level 1 quotes, this data first has to be assembled from different exchanges prior to dissemination by Nasdaq and...

virgin, The rule will become effective on September 28, 2001. SEC approved the new daytrading margin requirements on feb. 27, 2001 (amendments to NASD rule 2520). " The amendments become effective Sept. 28, 2001." Fohat