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The best you can do is 3 monitors but that severly limits your screen res, so in essence, it isnt even worth your time to do it.

So IB's commission rates on options is WORSE than Ameritrades???? Hmmm. Damn that 3rd grade education... And yes, as long as ameritrade isnt trading futures & futures options, what good are they besides stocks. If you want better stock rates and a real platform and WAAAY better option...

Did you factor in the execution credits given???

Etrade makes a bunch of promises that they manage to weasel out of with mountains of disclaimers and legalese.

LOL helps distinguish that. :) You know the vipers will come out....

AMEN!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Now that put a smile on my face. :)

Here is alink to that info..... http://www.fdic.gov/deposit/deposits/insured/ownership4.html

The system will be up by noon today. Or you could use quotetracker as a front end and program strategies. If you still have your Ameritrade account, use it for your data feed to config your strategies....

I trade with a Laptop. But due to the need for a ton of monitors, I'll be switching to a FULL desktop solution (right now I am 2 monitors with this laptop system) Advantages of a laptop. if you have temp power outage, your computer doenst just shut down. Of course APS Backups work great as...

I dont think you were the focus of venom... It was the refco reference.... Check the system status page and you will find info on system availability....

Well now that is a horse of another color... There is this little feature on TOS platform called "SETUP" And under this little feature is a thing called an option And that option allows you to AUTO TRANSMIT an Order with shift click. Now lets say perhaps you open the TOS platform and...

Would some please point them to the SYSTEM availability page..... weekend..... weekend..... weekend..... weekend..... weekend.....

Just a side note... With Etrade's 197.7 Billion in Client assets versus IB's 4.5 Billion in client assets, what would happen if Etrade went belly up.... Oh well. a little research gets you a lot of answers. LOL. Etrade is good for my IRA however. (Thats about it though) Simple stuff...

Lets go deeper.... http://www.fdic.gov/deposit/deposits/insured/yid.pdf I assumed he meant multiple bank accounts at DIFFERENT banks. Then you can get the 100K per bank account. Again however, that is a bank account. Lets say etrade didnt SWEEP your funds from your BROKERAGE...

I Knew because I, on a whim bought it on Tuesday. it had jumped 60 cents the day prior and appeared on one of my stock searches as a possible. I jumped some more on tuesday so I jumped on it. LOL. I wasnt even watching my stocks that closely friday, Been watching my Ag trades more so last week...

So you traded DNDN eh?

visit think or swims site and downlad their platform, they offer a free papertrading account once you sign up with them..... Real Time Data, etc.... http://www.thinkorswim.com/tos/displayPage.tos?webpage=clientApplication

Thanks, I missed responding to a few of those comments.

Oh yeah... Again I re-state, I dont trade stocks in that high volume or size. Not my tea bag, I am mostly futures.