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"The international derivatives exchange Eurex will be launching a new futures product based on the dividends of the Dow Jones EURO STOXX 50® as of 30 June 2008. The introduction of new index dividend futures represent the first time that the pure dividend component of a major equity index has...

You are very confused. TA is data analysis based on price as opposed to data analysis based on fundmentals. Applying standard statistical and mathematical methods to price is TA. Anyone, including you, using "just simple data analysis" is using TA.

A moving average is one of the standard techniques of TA, it has nothing to due with fundamental analysis.

Try daytrading ES, YM, NQ and ER2 using only fundamental analysis and report back your results.

TA combined with voodoo works like magic on indices. The most wicked results occur when using a down feather from a black swan.

For only 1 GBP a month for the ICE/NYBOT data feed, I hope IB sees the light and gives it to customers for free come September. IB should easily make enough profits on NYBOT TF trading to make up the loss of 1 GBP per month per trader.

For equity accounts TradeStation pays zero on the first $10k and 0.5% (50 basis points) on the amount over $10k. On futures account TradeStation pays zero on the entire balance. TradeStation also charges for the equity and futures data feeds that IB gives customers for free.

For some brokers net interest income provides the bulk of profits. Look at TradeStation. For the 1st quarter 2008 net interest income of $8.05 million is 60% of total pretax income of $13.5 million. For 1st quarter 2007, when rates were higher, net interest income was 82% of total pretax income.

It is the traditional policy of futures brokers to pay zero interest on cash. The normal method of earning interest on futures account cash is to buy t-bills which are allowed to be used as futures margin (with a haircut). There is usually a minimum account size of $50k to $100k before t-bills...

You are reading the IB income statement incorrectly. For first quarter 2008 Electronic Brokerage Commissions and Fees are $88.2 million, Interest Income $72.8 million and Other Income $18.0 million. Interest Expense is $50.8 million, so net interest income of $22.0 million is way below...

Why do you have to log into QuoteTracker? If properly set up you just run QuoteTracker and it automatically logs in to the IB API. The normal first choice of an all in one broker and trading system is TradeStation. Some traders prefer TradeStation, some prefer IB and 3rd party software...

The pros already arb the SPY against the ES and keep them in line, so there is not much an individual can do with the pair and make money.

If you run QuoteTracker with TWS and chart ES, NQ and the other eminis you can export time and sales data from each Quote Tracker chart. Look at the correlation from 3:00 AM EDT on (9:00 CET) with the FSTE and the DAX futures. ES is easily tradeable overnight for 10 lots or less.

Wake up. You are dealing with autoquote bots, not real people.

Did you save your old computer to use as a backup and test system? How does the same TWS and Java setup work on the old computer?

IB doesn't want to admit that their charts and tools are not very good and that a third party application like QuoteTracker does what they don't. The best option is to use QuoteTracker for charting. QuoteTracker has a single symbol streaming time and sales window that can brought up on each...

I'm running TWS on a 4 year old computer with XP Home and never had TWS crash on me. Currently running TWS 882.2 with Java JRE 1.6.0_02. Only problems I have ever had with data is when the IB data servers have problems. The IB charts are not very good. The best option is to use QuoteTracker...

Ever consider looking up some facts? Bush took office in 2001 not 2000. Clinton had a budget surplus in fiscal years 1998 to 2001 ( due to the internet bubble), but the national debt still went up each year. When Clinton came into office in fiscal 1993 the National debt was $4.4...

Sounds like NinjaTrader isn't properly using the IB API to get the last trade price. Never had this problem using QuoteTracker with IB.

Are you using market or limit orders? How slow is slow? Market orders should give an instant fill on YM, ES, NQ and ER2. Try IB or TransAct if you don't like your current broker.