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Does anyone know if the $10 fee for emini applies only to streaming data or to real time snapshots as well? I am asking this because I often use Futuresource and other websites to get longer term charts during the day I don't want to find out next week they are no longer in real time . Thank you.

You say you you'd rather train a recent graduate than hire an "experienced trader without capital ". I am just curious, what background are you most interested in when training somebody out of college and in general what kind of education do your best traders have vs for ex. MM's at Morgan...

Can somebody who tried a subscription provide some feedback about this site. They seem to focus on the TA of the general market, market and fund timing. Not really useful for daytrading but very interesting nonetheless to learn TA in depth and understand the big picture.

mockingbird, trade the emini's S&P or Nasdaq 100.IMHO if you want to stick to a few stocks with no overnights eminis are better. You can start with the Q's on Island for a few months then go with the eminis. Basically with stock index futures you only have market risk, with stocks there is...

well I noticed a lag too sometime during the afternoon.

So far I only experienced problems with the emini quotes on the afternoon of the FOMC meeting. Something I would have expected anyway from my past experience with their data for equities. IB futures quotes seem however to be much more reliable (thank god) than their stock quotes. The emini...

Sorry I liked the old site better. I couldn't find the hardware section, nor the broker ratings immediately. Keep in mind that the ratings brought me to EliteTrader in the first place through a search engine. Basically IMO the message board took over the homepage however the site is much more...

emini quotes were frozen or completely off for 10 minutes after the FOMC announcement. Who wants to put on a trade in these conditions? Question : are stop loss activated in case quotes are inaccurate?

This is better. If you don't trade you can unsubscribe. However I doubt you can request not to pay exchange fees to your data provider if you tell them you already pay the fees to your broker.

I am looking for a second futures brokers to daytrade the eminis( 1-6 RT/day). $10 RT max., good platform, no hidden fees, no crooks, established and reknown firm, don't need daytrading margin. I hate their lack of transparency regarding their comm/fee structure. Anybody out there experienced...

The $30 commission amount for the $10 fee to be waived applies only to equities and equity options. There is no waiver for futures. I think there should be one. You stock traders don't take this into account. Who cares about $10 ? Well if you trade stocks actively you certainly generate $30 in...

Ixo7 brings a good point. If you don't wish to subscribe to any exchange (say you stop trading for a while) you should not be charged. If you trade primarily futures ( CME and CBOT) and stocks& options on the side you'll have to pay 50 bucks per month to IB just to have the privilege to trade...

I agree. The way IB sends you trade confirmations is just crazy.

ajax_g, You are right. IB is trying to charge a defacto monthly fee just to maintain an account, this is absolutely sickening. As for the exchanges and their affiliates, they have been fleecing individual investors for decades all the while pretending to protect them. I think it's time for these...

I think it's out of print or difficult to obtain. It was on my original buy list. "How I trade for a living" is good too BTW.

An order entry without live quotes is too time consuming that means you'll have to enter the limit price yourself. This is not a good solution at all, it will be impossible to daytrade futures for example. Forget it. These new fees are simply charged in lieu of inactivity fee with the difference...

THIS IS COMPLETELY RIDICULOUS! I AM IMMEDIATELY GOING TO SHOP AROUND FOR ANOTHER BROKER. IB doesn't credit any interest on sub 10k balance, I keep a small stock account there which I use occasionaly. It doesn't earn any interest and now I am gonna be charged $10 a month. No way! If IB is going...

I am lost. How do you access broker ratings and workstation guide now? Can't see the last posts and most active thread either.

Here are the 3 books I bought : Getting started in Futures (Lofton)( read it just for the mechanisms of the futures markets, regulations and contract specs, no info on trading) Winning in the futures market (Angell). Decent book for beginners, some very good chart patterns explained ...

If you are only interested in his strategies and money management and not the websites, brokerage info etc( which I think you can find by yourself on the Net, it's worth noting that this book is pretty much an abridged version of "Long term secrets to short term trading". Text and charts in some...