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I want to state this here, since IB found it not neccessary to inform us anyway:p Starting Monday, IB will offer options trading at a stunning rate of $1 per contract, even lower prices for penny-cheap contracts. http://www.interactivebrokers.com/html/retailAccount/fees.html

The LCD adapts to the pattern it displays currently. When you display an equal image over a long time, the liquid micro crystals "get used" to it, however, the effect is temporary. If you display an new image, the crystals start adapting to the new image. As far as i know, most modern...

OMYGOD! WHO IN THE WORLD WILL NEED SUCH A BUNCH OF S**T??? ----------------- excuse my rudeness

The "type of project" question does not really matter indeed, it does affect only what empty classes/files the upcoming wizard generated. If you want to depend on Microsoft, choose ActiveX, if you want to stay more technology-independend (still depend on win32...), do sockets. the interfaces...

just TAKEN FROM Steve Sanders / IB forum IB has had some technical difficulties in the past few days and we would like to apologize for the difficulties some of our customers experienced. The problems were isolated to our Ethernet switches which we are going to replace with new ones in the...

Yep, same phenomenon here. that is strange, as far i have seen it affects the bulletin with such a content "<blah> all users should be able to login now <blahblah>". maybe the guys there 1) send the bulletin 2) do some sort of soft reset to their system next without knowing the...

YES SIR ! THAT IS RIGHT !

darkhorse, that is exactly what suppose. it will be difficult to get really behind this story, but the point is probably really that some institutionals want less of this stealing and start to move out of the pit. however, the question is where did the volume go. in the minis ? probably...

Bryan: In fact the decline is going on since the last roll. Normally, when 250-300k minis are traded (in this is the case for all the time, last week, Monday, Tuesday etc.), this implies for me, that circa 120.000 big spooz change hands (plus/minus 20.000 contracts). However, things changed...

Bryan: I really appreciate your comment, but this is simply not a point here. The decline i refer to is as if the total Nasdaq Volume of yesterday was suddenly 400.000.000 shares (in fact, it was about 1.2 bill, with a range of 1.1 - 2 bill.).

Metooxx: I see what you want to point out. However, what i originally wanted to know: What is happening just these days (to the June contrct.) that volume declines so strongly ? Do U have any info on this (e.g. a big player moved out or sthg ) ?

check out www.onechicago.com. although the intro-date is arriving quickly, it seems nobody has really an idea where these animals will be headed in reality.

stevet, of course i see your point. i think the CSCO's and INTC's will do the job then. i assume you are not a pit local, right? so, if the pit guys generate movement THEY profit from, YOU will lose from it. i will like to have have less movement, if this movement would be 75% against me.

metooxx: if the big contracts would go electronic, i think it is reasonable to expect that CME will probably charge, maybe twice the e-mini fee as exchange fee, everything else would be unreasonable, because from the cost side it does not matter if you clear a small or a big contract, on the...

I have the opinion that markets will continue to move - no matter if there are pit locals or not. too many bank and prop traders are around who must make their money each day. They cannot afford to stand still - and so will the market. However, i am sure when the market gets decentralized, it...

Man Vs Machine Battle in Futures Trading Sat Mar 23, 4:31 PM ET By Greg McCune CHICAGO (Reuters) - Not long ago industry experts predicted that the waving, shouting, colorfully-dressed traders in the Chicago exchange pits would soon go the way of the dinosaur, replaced by the silence...

Pabst: Very good point with the seat prices here. I just checked CME's site, and voila, an IMM seat changed its owner at $370,000, which is far beyond the $5/600,000 paid in 2000/2001. An IOM seat was thrown away for $275,000, i think traders paid something around 400k some months earlier. By...

Bachelier: at least you will be rewarded by a more fair market:cool: (i point out: i have nothing against pit traders. the only point is: i am not one of them and i do not want them to have an unfair advantage)

NEO, you are perfectly right considering cash market trade volume. however, i download + read the CME trade statistics every day and i do this now for some months, and i can tell you nearly for sure that there is something going on. 40000 big S&P during RTH is - BY FAR - the lowest figure...

Hi Guys, has anybody else noticed this sharp decline in CME-pit traded equitity index futures during the last days ? I think it started with the last rollover into June, but the development over the last 3 days is - let me call it - dramatic. While in February 100.000 "big" S&Ps...