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I rolled over my ESU4 futures to ESZ4 today, and I noticed that the spread has been getting wider (although still less than 1 tick) as the day goes on. Just after 9:30 ET, the calendar spread was -7.95 x -7.90, and now it's -8.15 x -8.10. Is this typical? Only reason I can think of is that the...

Exiting later that day and starting it again made things OK.

It is showing bid/ask/last for US equity options. I haven't changed my configuration for a couple months. Everything is fine (I see bid/ask/last/high/low/volume) for US futures and equities. My market data connections are all green. Is there some new data feed I need to subscribe to?

Well, Fidelity Active Trader Pro requires the ability to run either Silverlight or win32 binaries. (One can trade via Fidelity's web site, but there are limitations there, such as allowing only 2 decimal places in prices).

Is it still the case that a company can employ a contractor for only 3 years at a time, after which they must either hire him/her as a regular employee or end the contract and not rehire the contractor for 6 months?

"Ban market exchanges from giving High Frequency Traders faster market access and front running orders." So the petition doesn't want to ban the sale of faster market access and front-running to non-HFT traders?

PHLX options exchange had a rule around 12 years ago that once you put in an order, you couldn't cancel or change it for 2 minutes. It was pretty unpopular, because the underlying stock can change a lot in 2 minutes. But what if there were a rule that any order, once it reached an exchange...

I used to buy calendar spreads of high-beta stocks just before earnings, expecting that, after earnings, the IV of the front month would go down more than the IV of the back month and thus the spread would widen. However, almost every single instance, the stock went up (or down) a lot, and both...

I use IB and Fidelity apps on my iPhone (which has 3G) and iPad (which stays at home) and they are fine, with limitations. If you're on-the-go, there will be places (like tunnels) that won't have a signal. On an iPhone and iPad, you'll be limited to running one program at a time, so if your...

I trade with IB. I use iTWS on an iPhone when I'm on-the-go, but would like to be able to see multiple quotes at once while I'm making a trade, as well as news items, so I'd like to try a tablet that can either use IB's native apps or the regular desktop TWS. I have an iPad and could try that...

When I tried the free Multicharts a few months ago, I couldn't get bars shorter than one minute. I typically use 5-second bars when I use TWS charts. Is there a way to get this with Multicharts?

I think reducing the number of laws that give tax incentives is "smaller government", not "big government".

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I ran into a similar situation at IB. The rep told me to wait, saying the exchange would "probably" clear the stuck cancel, but possibly not until the end of the day. I'm not going to ask a rep to do something he clearly doesn't want to do, so I just contacted IB support again, got a different...

The answer depends on the answers to these: Do you have a margin account? When you say you "have $25K in my account", does that mean you had $25K of settled cash? Was the $25K stock marginable? Were you the recipient in the past 90 days of a day trading margin call that you didn't take care of?

I've had a good couple of months money-making-wise, but I've made it by trading stocks of crappy companies. My method is a common one: find a stock that, due to a news event, has become overpriced or, more often, underpriced, and after doing some research, decide to take a position that assumes...

Some brokers calculate your daily buying power based on your holdings at the end of the previous day, and if you sell any stock during the day it will not increase this buying power (you will see the increased buying power on the next day). Similar restrictions can be imposed on your account if...

I accidentally sold (instead of bought) NFLX puts. I promptly bought them back, but I was surprised I was even allowed to write them at all. I had no position in NFLX stock. Was this an oversight by the broker, or is writing uncovered American-style equity options in an IRA allowed now?

I once used a large, publicly-traded brokerage whose online trading infrastructure (a java-in-the-browser client communicating with servers using some proprietary TCP/IP-based protocol) would occasionally break down for hours at a time. Many complaints on Yahoo message boards, but it always...