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Do you have too much money? Downside trend is very strong at the moment.

I wonder if IB would have increased overnight margin for new positions as well if IB had possibility change overnight margin without affecting current positions? I think 500$ margin bargains for e-minis will be history really soon.

I wonder when overnight margin requiments will be adjusted as well? ----------------------------------------------- To CFE,ECBOT,GLOBEX traders: Mon Aug 6 09:14:14 2007 EST IMPORTANT MARGIN NOTICE Effective Monday 6 August, 2007, and until further notice, there will be a...

Remember that you get dividends from ETF. From futures you do not get them.

I am not sure, but I think Interactive Brokers does not make strict credit checks. But you need to be 21 in order to get margin account and minimum initial deposit is 5k$. In order to day trade you still need 25k$

How old are you? If you are under 21, it can be difficult. And how much equity do you have?

After addition of australian stocks and swedish derivates which will be next IB additions? I would prefer OMX Helsinki Stocks. OMX Helsinki should be pretty easy to add as OMX Stockholm is already available. OMX Helsinki is traded in Euro. OMX Copenhagen and Oslo Stock exchange are also...

Sounds good. But you should go ahead and add more markets. Korean stocks Finnish stocks Norwegian stocks Danish stocks Italian stocks Spanish stocks

0,5 % stamp tax makes LSE daytrading close to impossible if you want to make profit. Forget LSE if you want to daytrade. Try some other market instead.

Up they go Index Value: 4,334.92 Trade Time: 3:00AM ET Change: Up 62.81 (1.47%) Prev Close: 4,272.111 Open: 4,288.98 Day's Range: 4262.02 - 4335.96 52wk Range: 1,528.23 - 4,208.39

I have understood that Australian stocks and Swedish options + futures will be the next IB addition. But we will see. Finland, Denmark and Norway are in my wish list....... Finland of course on the top. IB already is OMX registrated broker, why not provide more products. (Please add OMX...

When customer has secure device challenge-response authentication in addition with email notification is enough. Mother's maiden name or equivalent does not give any additional security. With bare userid/passwd authentication situation is different.

Interactive brokers is the most obvious choice.

Who uses all the margin all the time overnight? Most traders want to have a lot of extra margin. You pay interest only for the margin you use which is usually much lower than available margin. With EFT you get interest for all the money.

You can buy ie. Vanguard Short-Term Bond ETF or equivalent. If you have reg T margin you get 66,6 % margin value for those securities. Portfolio margin should be much higher.

Scenario 1 is pretty possible at the moment. I think possibility of someone planting trojans successfully stealing userids/password from your computer should be under 1% / year but more than 0,05 %/year if you use usual security standards but are not very careful (very careful in IT security...

Challenge-response systems in the form of secure device (or paper single-use password list with confirmation codes) provide far better security than other methods suitable for public use. The customer can simply secure the account very reliably by logging out. When customer has disconnected...

Idealpro rates are usually excellent during active trading hours. Major currencies have good volume and spread is really minimal. Idealpro is marketplace for currencies and rates between major currencies are not dependent on IB's marketmaking. In IDEAL rates vary a lot. ie. USD/EUR and...

10000 September 2007 12500 December 2007 10000 February 2008 8000 May 2008 5000 May 2010 4000 May 2012 Be prepared for bumpy ride .........