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Def, I tried twice to get confirmation and further help from helpdesk. They keep telling me to check with CME, and apparently they have no clue about what an intraday margin could be. Is there an official statement about (for ES) anywhere in IB site? Thanks a lot

Had an account with PMB, nothing changed with REFCO: you do not pay for JTrader (indeed it is PropTrader, but it is the same stuff).

I would not use PingPlotter to monitor the data feed quality, neither Atom Time or similar program. In a real world practice of years, even with other traders, I discovered that 60ms is GREAT in order to have good fills etc. Lot of traders in the range 250-300ms can trade very well, without...

Kralcd, no, it is a new product I had never heard of. I am using three Matrox card in a desktop computer.

Mgregor, I assumed from the original message we were talking about IB. That rule is software implemented, you cannot buy 10 shares of MU on Nyse, for example. I never tried to buy or short the stock you are mentioning, indeed....;-)

"if I have 1c/share comm. than why would it be so impossible to trade NYSE 1-5 days and build it up? For ex. 10 share lots...or 20..." This is now possible with NASDAQ stocks only. A new rule implemented weeks or few months ago says that you can only open NYSE and AMEX position with round...

"Stick to looking for larger moves, and since you only have 2k, you might want to do options instead. I was able to turn like 3k into 20k in the last month on about a half dozen option trades. I don't think that anyone trading with low equity can make it in equities without first building his...

J-Trade, I am using three monitors with Esignal and a lot of other software working in realtime and using other data feeds. While an ISDN line is much more efficient, even versus ADSL IMHO, a 56K works well. I am typing these lines from an hotel in the Alps, and I am currently trading every day...