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Overnight IB emini margins are exchange minimum Intraday Daytrading margins are half of that amount. For example, NQ daytrading margins are $1500 initial/$1200 maintenance ES daytrading margin is $1969/ $1575. Fohat

IB absorbs them. Commissions of [0.005/share +$2.50], or less, inslude all the fees.

Craig, Will Apex offer single stock futures trading, when they become available? Is the software integration of SSF trading underway?

I also haven't found a better broker than IB. I've compared over 50 brokers, based on price, speed, reliability, software etc., and IB comes as the best Electronic direct access broker overall for a self-directed trader. Price: Best. $1/contract options; [$2.50 + (half cent)/share] or less...

DayTraderNYC, You can daytrade Emini S&P 500 (ES) and Nasdaq 100 futures(NQ) instead. ES = 500 SPY ; NQ = 800 QQQ. Benefits: Lower commissions, lower margin, more liquidity, less partial fills, tighter spreads, longer trading hours (almost 24/7), electronic execution, no middleman (Market...

No significant change in ES margin: Initial: $3,938 Maintenance: $3,150 ES Daytrading Leverage (1/2 CME margin): approximately, up to 50*1063.26:1969 = 27:1.

Today Chicago Mercantile Exchange has revised its futurues margins. Emini Nasdaq futures CME margin was lowered to: Initial: $3000 Maintenance: $2400 With 1/2 daytrading margin those will be $1500 and $1200 respectively. With Nasdaq 100 around 1200, this will give a daytrading...

It's not an IB issue, there are currently major internet traffic problems, many Internet service providers are having connection problems. For example, AOL node pop1-dtc.atdn.net is down. Chicago node 227.at-2-0-0.TR1.CHI2.ALTER.NET is down. Michigan node irx03.foxberry.net is down. New...

The Exchange charges only $9 for Level II data for non-professionals.

New IB feature: Transfering funds between IB accounts has been made Instant. Fohat

ssb, You can open another margin account with $2000 minimum and short the stocks there. Fohat

This is simply not true, IB option commissions are $1/contract or less, while legends option commissions are minimum $9.95 i.e. 45% up to 895% higher! ($20 per trade + 1.50 per contract for online investors or $1.45 per contract with $9.95 minimum) than IB option commissions. IBs other...

Install another browser (Netscape, Opera) and use it to launch the java applets.

For stocks: weekdays, with IB one can trade 3:30am - 8pm Futures, weekdays are tradeable approximately 23 out of 24h: 12:33am - 4:15pm and 4:45pm - 11:53pm Fohat

Nice improvement: Looks like IB has its own Messageboard

Free realtime streaming ECN quotes: http://www.streamer.com Fohat

See http://quote.yahoo.com/q?s=qqq&d=e for realtime snapshot quotes.

There was internet backbone problem with alternet, IB switched to Sprint - which resolved the connection problem - it originated within alternet, not IB.

Yes. Datek, RJT and Stockwatch. Fohat

Both are equally faster/ stable. But standalone uses less memory and is browser independent. Standalone is better. Fohat