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Another option is to put an entire operating system onto a USB flash drive or onto a CD-ROM (or both). When on the road, I mostly trade from my latop, but every now and then I find myself in certain situations where I need to use someone else's computer. Being able to boot directly from the CD...

I had similar problems with Firefox... worked great at first, but gradually deteriorated over time. I switched over to Opera and have had no issues since.

I have yet to come across a realtime trading application written specifically for Mac. Some firms, like Interactive Brokers, have Java applications that will run just fine on the Mac. Other than that, your best bet is to either use BootCamp to setup a dual boot option, or to run a Windows...

On TT, GC is Comex (Nymex) Gold traded electronically on Globex. It can definitely be traded, but the spreads are typically 2 to 4 (sometimes as wide as 6) ticks.

Its not so much a question of speed, as much as a question of bandwidth. For instance, here is a chart of the over the air estimates based on various 802.11 specifications. 802.11b 11 Mbps 802.11g 54 Mbps 802.11n 200+...

Maybe one day wifi will be as fast, stable, and have as much bandwidth as a hard wired line, but as far as I know, that day is not today. If I absolutely had to use wifi, I would probably use one of those Dual N-Band routers so that I could either (1) use one band for trading and the other...

Not sure I'd want to be using a wifi for a trading firm.

Glad to see that coming out with new features is still a higher priority than fixing existing bugs and stability related issues that have existed since 7.0.

nobody trades for free (but they do get deeply discounted fees).

As long as you have power to your cable modem (i.e. via a UPS) and the cable company has power on their side (i.e. many many UPS's), you should be fine. Unless you live within very close proximity to the cable company's closest connect switch, its relatively unlikely that both of you would lose...

If you say so, who I am I to argue... all I know is I called my mortgage broker last week to inquire about a property I was considering and he flat out said, "all we can get done these days are are conforming loans and thats it." Although he did say they could probably get a deal done with...

From what I hear nobody is writing non-conforming loans right now (especially jumbos)... just go buy something that fits the standards for a conforming loan and I bet you won't have any problem at all getting a mortgage.

If you're trading mostly Globex products, and you do at least 25 sides per day, then you might want to look at a CME Electronic Corporate Membership (rule 106.R). The application fee is $2,000 and you have to apply as a corporation (which means you'll have to create one if you don't already...

With oil as volatile as it is, I'd just look to find a nice call option that you can buy... that way your risk is fixed and you don't have to worry about any margin calls or getting sold out of your position.

Yah, and how do you figure that the "integrity of the market" is increased or helped by giving one group of market participants (buyers) an intrinsic advantage over another group of market participants (sellers). If their job is really to ensure integrity in the marketplace, I would think...

The uptick rule does not prevent anybody from shorting in a downtrend... it just means that before you can short, you need 1 puny, measly, little uptick first. You know how many upticks you get in a downtrend? Just as many downticks as you get in an uptrend. I traded back in the days of the...

All you're doing is regurgitating what Cramer says word for word.... not very original... and not very accurate either.

Agreed... if you're a successful trader then technically you're already making a very high rate of return on your money anyways... my guess is that only a losing trader would futz around with so much risk for just a few meager points of interest.

Not so sure about that... according to IB's website: "Bonds must be paid-in-full in a Cash account." And most places that do allow bonds to be margined usually require the bond to be trading at 70% or higher than it's par value.

This is probably one of the most ridiculous ideas I've ever heard of. Unless IB is letting you use your bonds as marginable collateral, you've accomplished absolutely nothing.... except buy $20k worth of bonds that yield 10-12%. The notion that you've somehow created a synthetic yield for your...