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WoW, this thread really rocks. m.-claire: are you not glad NOW, that IB has stopped you out of your position much earlier ? I mean esp. euro markets are in a significant 5-day lasting linear downtrend, i do not understand why you went long anyway. You should thank IB, maybe you would not...

I hear on this board: "IB bad here. IB bad there." However, I would not want to see your faces (and mine...) if IB announces tomorrow to close down retail brokerage activities. If you really had reasons to complain, you would have another broker already now. so either) shut up; or) be less...

I wonder when some of you will be starting making IB responsible for the trading losses they suffer from. ("I saw this nice & neat TWS, i HAD to start churning. OR. I simply could not withstand the order button. IB must pay now.)

IMO, seen from fundamental numbers, INDU might decline down to 6000-7000 pts if corp profits continue to bottom out. i do not want to know where the NAZ will stand then. bad thing about this: volatility will continue to shrink and profit opportunities will continue to slide away.

bonds are traded interbank. there is no real cash index, however, the 30yr yield ($TYX/QCharts) represents the major market.

IB is working on the e-mail problem. check their forum.

other civilizations ! SUCK ! :mad:

Does anyone know if stock accounts also benefit from CBOT's waived market data fees ? (Maybe cut only for fut acct's - since stock acct. will view only anyway ...???) Knows someone ??

i know that on instinet, it depends on the courtesy of instinet and their counterparty (call them via phone) if a mistrade (e.g. INTC: 26.02, 26.05, _27.10_, 26.05) can be broken, however, it is done in about 60-80% of all cases.

Vinny: i cannot imagine a different way - futures are always paid / received daily, otherwise they would be called forwards. also, the 20% margin is then afterwards "applied" every day new.

TRIM = Trimark / Knight ???

however, do not forget that options and futures are different animals. long stock / short fut. is completely other than only long stock / long put. (de facto same as long stock / long put / short call). creating some kind of "bullet" will be more easy, but since only major stocks are...

what confuses me with this firm are their so called "pass through fees". e.g. they charge 0.5 cents ECN fees for INCA, while INCA charges them only 0.3 for taking liq and gives them 0.2 for providing liq (www.instinet.com). sorry - that is not a good base for getting business.

better a small flat panel than a big CRT.

freenet tried it... however, i am unsure if they brought a real product to the market, check www.freenet.de

If you want, trade them. However, the market makers in these options will earlier or later knock you down. Spreads are huge, only a few trades occur, even in the "currently liquid" front month/at the money contracts. Pit traders will make you pay some slippage there... maybe calculate...

candletrader: how long do you plan to terrorize the world with this !!! GIF !!! ??? :cool: maybe candle plans to start up with www.animatedgifsfromhell.com because trading got screwed...

can't say that way... it is just my impression WHAT still is reasonable. e.g. if one owns 40k and has a broker where he trades 40 ES with this money (just trading - no say-so 70% safe system), this is never reasonable, however, it is my opinion.

http://www.interactivebrokers.com -> account login -> market data subscriptions -> Xetra / IBIS what's the problem ? :D

maximum leverage: one MiniSP is currently worth about 55k. If you have a broker who lets you trade this one with 2k like IB (4%), this is the lower border of what still seems reasonable to me. If you are margined at an even lower rate (<1k/ct.) (as retail guy - not to mention pit...