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Have you tried to make sense of the MF Global balance sheet? They have $41 billion in assets and only $1.2 billion in equity. A 3% bump in the night and they are burnt toast. I set up a complex spreadsheet analysis of MF Global assets and liabilities and it comes to the conclusion that Jon...

What version of QT are you using? It has to be a registered version or the final patch verion to work with IB. Did you follow all the QT setup direction for IB TWS data feed? http://www.quotetracker.com/help/ib.shtml

Another financial expert who doesn't know the difference between SIPC and FDIC. :eek:

Did you bother to look to see what volume the VIX futures do? HFT, LOL.

OK, Vision does have a securities division and charges $6.00 plus $0.75 an option. Not what was requested.

And what does a futures broker have to do with a request for an "equity option broker "?

Dennis M. Ritchie, creator of C and co-creator of Unix has died at the age of 70.

This is pure nonsense. These guilty wealthy people can donate all their wealth to the government any time they want to. So can Warren Buffet and his pals. They don't want to part with their wealth, they just want other people to pay for their politics. Talk is very cheap. I see lots of...

Thud (from smacking head), I screwed up. Bob, please ignore my post about IB's shorter short list.

Hey Bob, didn't you get the email from IB back in September about no margin on stocks with a market cap less than 250 million? Don't worry, IB didn't bother to send the stinking email to me either. I only know about it from this ET thread...

The interest rate for less than 3 months is 0.01% not 2.96%. The future price of gold includes storage and insurance costs.

How did you come up with that absurd nonsense? IB has $4.6 billion in equity. Their only debts are $178 million in senior notes and $43 million in short term borrowings. IB has nothing to do with the European sovereign debt issue.

The only money market fund to break the buck in the 2008 mess was the Reserve Fund. The Schwab YieldPlus funds were not money market funds. The AmeriTrade Reserve Yield Plus fund was not a money market fund. As of June 30, 2011 Penson had $8.5 billion in customer cash and had $3.0...

DDT does not have the lowest published rates. Eagle Market Makers starts at $0.40 a side plus platform fees. Advatage Futures starts at $0.99 a side, but drops rapidly for volume. $0.29 a side at 2,001 sides, $0.19 a side at 5,001 sides and $0.07 a side after 10,001 sides. 20,000 sides...

Ths IRS crackdown is putting the screws to more than a million Canadians. "A tax crackdown by the United States has sent more than one million Americans and green-card holders living in Canada scrambling to figure out how to comply. The move is part of a push by the U.S. Internal Revenue...

It is specified where it always is on the SPDR's dividend page. https://www.spdrs.com/library-content/public/ETF%20Dividend_09.15.2011.pdf?docname=ETF%20Dividends%20&onyx_code1=1300&onyx_code2=2132

You can get the last 5 days of YM tick data free at http://www.slickcharts.com/ You can buy all the tick data you want from the CME DataMine http://www.cmegroup.com/market-data/datamine-historical-data/overview.html

Never have and never would. Outright robbers. Options are $7 a ticket plus $1.25 per contract. 100% of order flow is sold.

CME DataMine has Globex market depth data, but it is not cheap. And you have to recreate the DOM from the data. http://www.cmegroup.com/market-data/datamine-historical-data/datamine.html

Plenty of software for the TWS API. NinjaTrader and ButtonTrader are just two of the commercial apps. TradeProject http://www.tradeproject.de/ and JBookTrader http://code.google.com/p/jbooktrader/ are just two of the apps written by individuals. And there is the Yahoo group on the TWS...