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I have asked this question in IB's board and hasnt got too much response so i might give it a try here. Here is the situation: I want to sell deep ITM long term put on some income trust to avoid forign tax withholding, so i need to be precise on how much interest i will be responsible for in...

Not only the disconnection. Has anyone got their statement from yesterday? maybe their clearing has problem so they shut us down.

I guess brady did get the job done afterall. 52-7 NE over NY

What are the chances he bought the high after the cut and blow out his last 15K?? I am pricing in at least 33% he did get long again.

Moss and welker too??

Oh ok............... so the dude who lost 30K can do the same thing ??? and by the way u look like antonio esfandiari..............

How come there is no watermark in the paper account???

Wow! Is that really u in a real account?? Long 15 hang seng contract? If it is real, more power to you!

Doesnt seem to be a holiday

And one more thing: i believe the exchanges rules state that the broker in the pit has 2 minutes for both filling an order and cancelling the order. So if the pit is busy, although you enter a request for cancel, if the market traded thru your price in the next 2 minutes, you could still be...

From my experience from tradestation (which clears thru RJO) for pit contract, you usually can't get a confirmation for a real cancelled order for at least 3 minutes. The cancel is usually just pending for the 1st few minutes and could be in the "pending" status until the end of day. The...

Yes.. The game is always disconnected. The real one works fine tho....

Sign up to be a customer at www.tradersaudio.com , Ben usually will accomodate his customers for a visit of the S&P pit.

After the dust settle, one thing i learnt from this. It is like a fire drill on a slow year end day. No harm no foul. Almost all the markets stayed where it was. You guys should be happy that this didnt happen on the first day of the new year when volume is heavy. This fire drill shows that 90%...

u were long from 3 months ago? Feb08 is trading at 97.50ish right now.

Oh my god! What if they dont fix it by the close? Does that mean a 5 min scalp will turn into a weekend trade? And for all those who trades on intraday thin margin, will the system liquidate you at the globex open on sunday?

About the same

The trader can always get out of the whole position if the future hit 27.5 between now and expiration and come out ahead.

GG ?

Assume you sold 10K worth of EFP. Say your stock leg has went up to 15K and now your account is -5K. If you cover 5K of EFP on tuesday, the delivery will take place on friday. So over the weekend you are flat. If you do it on any other day, you will be responsible for the interest over the weekend.