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Regarding the re-introduction of the German "Börsenumsatzsteuer" (transaction tax): At the moment there is just a proposal by Mr. Steinbrück to include this into the SPD party program for the coming elections later this year. However, according to current election poll trends, it could be that...

I trade from a MacBook Pro, most of the time hooked up to an external 24" display, running Windows-only applications (like eSignal) under VMware Fusion with Windows XP. Originally this was planned as an backup only for my PC (and because a wanted to try out a Mac), now the PC is the backup...

When did they told you that? Maybe in the mid-90s of last century... With all respect, 3G-coverage in Germany is excellent, as is in most other parts of Europe. For a long time, Europe had more 3G-users (percentage-wise) than USA. It took until last year for the USA to surpass Europe...

Of course I meant 'intraday TICK data'...

Now, that's funny. I strongly suspect that in 95% of all cases it's not the client computers performance which is the cause of lagging data, but eSignal's servers and/or software. Receiving data and displaying them in 2D-Charts is not rocket science and does NOT require a vast amount of...

Exactly.

Port1385, sorry to have to say that, but you are a complete moron. Of course IBKR will be down when the whole financial sector is in distress. But if you compare IBKR to other financials, or for instance, the Broker/Dealer Index, IBKR holds up very well. And, like others have already told...

LOL. You have absolutely no clue.

This article seems to be fabricated. It is circulating around the net at various sites, however everytime without a link to the original article at bloomberg and with obvious spelling errors. A search at bloomberg.com for this article returned no result.

Holy shit. Who does that? You make it sound like this is a common procedure. It is not. The only people who are doing this are conspiracy theorists, paranoid gold bugs and other tinfoil-hat-wearing indivuals. I should know, because I live in Germany. Do not believe everything you read on...

Live.

Yes, there are/were problems. Orders took (still take?) anywhere from 2 to over 30 seconds to to get confirmed by an exchange. Phoned IB about the problem, they promised to call me back. Still waiting...

Source?

I think that IB ist one of the safest places at the moment. First, IB ist still largely a private company, so no risk of irresponsible behavior of CEOs which are not owners. Second, Petterfy ist a veteran in the options business. If there is one person who knows how to measure and avoid...

This is the most creative trading idea I've read about in a long time. At first, I thought it would be ridculous. However, after thinking a little bit about it... it's actually nothing less than using a 'natural' neural net (the one of the pet) for trading. Could it work? Don't know...

I'm too having problems with the daily charts. But the interesting thing is, only the daily charts of the symbols displayed during the most recent shutdown of eSignal won't load. For example, if YM #F was visible while exiting eSignal and I restart it, I can get no daily chart of YM #F, status...

Yes.

As far as I know, TOS is just an Introducing Broker for Penson (PNSN). So, you have to compare Penson with Interactive Brokers (IBKR). The first thing I would do is: Pull up charts of both companies and compare their performance during the recent turmoil in financial stocks. For me, there...

Some volume will move to ICE once the contract trades there exclusively. In fact, volume, while still anemic, is already increasing. However, there is no cross-margining between CME and ICE contracts. This is a serious disadvantage for traders who want to play the ES-TF spread, for example...

You have to enter "RUT" into a market data line and then select the desired contract (TF) from the menu.