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Probably the nearest U.S. consulate can do it for you if you get the blank cards from the b/d or the regulator and take them in. They probably will not accept fingerprints taken by a foreign police department.

Yes I agree with those points. Europe is currently threatening to prevent U.S. money managers and hedge funds from accepting European clients unless reciprocity is worked out. Of course this is an enormous volume of investment. So odds are that we will eventually have some degree of...

The restriction is on the foreign brokers (not U.S. citizens) The CFTC requires them to accept U.S. regulations and reporting requirements, margin limitations, etc. before they can solicit U.S. clients. Of course they do not want to that. The C.F.T.C also takes the position that just...

I agree that would be great and I would read it with interest!

At IB it is only 100K so why not go directly to IB and forget the intermediary?

"Futures Curve" refers to the "graph of prices for many different maturities as they extend into the horizon." It is about which months are in contango or backwardation. See http://www.investopedia.com/articles/07/contango_backwardation.asp#axzz2FXzZFWFY for more details. To trade...

Their real commission is $1.40 round trip, or 70 cents per side, which I agree is very competitive anyway, especially if they include the platform free.

It does not belong in this thread, which is on the Wheat Curve It would be much better if you put this is a new thread called "Wheat Spreads across Exchanges" or whatever. Putting in here forces me to read it because I am interested in posts on the Wheat Curve, which your post is NOT...

Hmm by the way is "Clearing" above a legitimate fee commonly charged by brokers? I think it may be hiding a $1.00 fee that actually gets pocketed by the broker in this case (who may use it for perfectly legitimate purposes, however, such as paying software platform costs). Look at e.g...

There are cases in which it could fall back on you. For example, if you send back the form with incorrect replies, failing to inform them of adverse changes in your credit status or income, and they as a result continue to extend a large amount margin credit, and you end up in losing more...

Since the Interactive Brokers Market Brief URL in question says "Data available real-time to IB customers in Trader Workstation", it's a fair point that some of the data is not in fact available from them. One might hope that the data that is so important that it is included in IB's Market...

They do not even have true futures option settlement price histories either (just last trade). This makes their historical option price charts useless to me because I am frequently trading strikes that may be lightly traded.

I think the main factor in suspending the weekly update was the fact that most or all of his clients lost most of their money (at least for now) when PFG Best went under. He was clearing through them. However I believe (without hard evidence) that he probably also had a string of losses...

I have asked them and they say that they do not publish or quote trading results since they only have individually-managed accounts which have varying results depending on risk instructions etc. However if you look at some of the earlier Youtube "optionsellers" videos there are one or two...

R. Please see the other threads on R.

Check if it applies to commodity futures and forex. I believe that some banks allow those.

I export historical data in CSV format from TradeStation. There are pseudo-indicators and keystroke macros on the TradeStation forums that can be used to accomplish that. I have also written API code to export data from CTS T4.

People who are looking for assurances that cash, in actuality deposited solely to trade futures, can be covered as securities under SPIC, by temporarily sweeping it to a securities account every day, are not going to get those assurances. Both SIPC and (later) IB have issued clarifications...

Futures options or stock options? DDT is a futures and futures options broker.

It depends what country he is in. Brokers do not accept clients in countries with restrictive regulatory requirements, unless they happen to have a branch qualified in that country, in which case they do accept them (since they have gone to the trouble of qualifying for that country). What...