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Yep, i noticed the same. Must be a mailer bug or something like this.

INTC and MSFT of course!

If you want to trade European Futures, be very careful with it. E.G. with FDAX there are several rules which make the market system very complex and sometimes hard to understand. The underlying stocks traded on Xetra are halted several times a day for an auction and the future price is hard to...

stock777: perhaps you could read something about options strategies like butterflies, condors etc (try google). you can do many things with options that are impossible with a stock. you can go short after a downtick. and you can profit from non-moving markets (if there is any:cool:

Yes, but since options are mostly illiquid and many have only 1-3 prints a day, it will not help you for analysis. for this, you would need continous historical bids and asks (real time and sales), but unfortunately i do not know if they are available somewhere.

funster, have you tried to trade in a different time frame (maybe longer) with less risk exposure and smaller positions ? it could help you, it will take some psychological pressure off you. if 1 mini is still too big (e.g. because you want to pyramide in or want the chance to hold over nights)...

You should urgently research what fills you get. If you are filled by the MM your order is routed to, you will not get a good price or you will be filled when the market had moved unfavourable for you. moving to EDAT is always worth the effort.

i have the impression that their servers are down 50% of the time markets are open. also, it took 8 weeks and at least 5 requests to make them close my account. also, i have heard in the past that datek does not stick to all the advertising-promises they make.

If supermontage is really fast -as they promise due to scalability- the ECN liquidity thing should be no problem, since traders prefer ECNs mostly due to their speed. Lets hope it gets as good as they are advertising it.

I have an 19" IIyama screen and I am very satisfied. As I experienced, monitor qualitiy can vary extremely from one sample to another, even if the model is exactly the same. If you feel that the quality is simply too bad and it cannot be, insist on getting it changed into another one (If you...

In fact it could even happen that an order is sent "around" several times, which would result in multiple ECN charges. Maybe extremely rare but still possible, I think.

Dave is right with the NYSE stops, I do use to trade NYSE stocks and I do not use stop orders most of the time, so I was not really aware of the NYSE issue.

SPOT is the cash market where institutions trade large quantitis in a decentral market (most via telephone, ReutersFX etc). Futures are traded at CME/Globex but are by far less liquid than the SPOT

if you try to find an options broker cheaper and better than IB: i do not know one and i bet you will have a hard time finding one.

4x margin: yes for daytraders stops are held at ib for NASDAQ and GLOBEX but sent for NYSE and most european markets (native stops) see IB exchanges page

I had already studied this once: Currency: USD/EUR,JPY Bonds: Eurex: FGBL future Stocks: Nasdaq Stock/Index Futures: S+P

I would not confirm that by all means. It looks like the mini leads because prices of the big ones are reported with a delay by the exchange (typed manually) and trades are not so frequent. but in terms "when a floor trader decides in his MIND to buy/sell", the big still leads the mini, the rest...

@Optrader: i have the strict opinion that a modern market should be democratic. and the currently existing pit/electronic solution is _not_ democratic. that is all i am embarrassed about. not everybody has the freedom to bid up for a seat, maybe for financial reasons or because of not being...

when trading less liquid NYSE stocks which are very directional (many of them) and you wanna be short, you cannot get in without bullets since it is unlikely that you get an uptick or your ask is taken

allesim: if you are trying to find a cheaper euro broker than ib: forget it, there is none. the problem is: the euro market/clearing system are not so efficient and highly traded so the costs are higher. many euro daytraders have switched to US markets. however, try DAX future which offers the...