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10% in 1929. Since 1940 the Federal Reserve has set it as low as 40% and as high as 100%. It's been at 50% since 1974. Jack

MARGIN INCREASE TO BE IMPLEMENTED In the interest of ensuring the continued safety of IB clients, IB is modifying certain margin policies to adjust for the unprecedented volatility in financial markets. The changes will promote reduction of leverage in client portfolios and help ensure that...

The Google link seems to be a two hour video about the evils of the fractional monetary system we live under. Do you have a reference to share bars? I can't locate anything. Jack

What's sgare? Got a reference? Jack

This was in the Senate version - The Treasury/IRS has been asking for this for sometime. SEC. 403. BROKER REPORTING OF CUSTOMER’S BASIS IN SECURITIES TRANSACTIONS. (a) IN GENERAL.— (1) BROKER REPORTING FOR SECURITIES TRANSACTIONS.—Section 6045 is amended by adding at the end the...

Was trading the ES during the Senate vote using IB's BookTrader and it seemed to be fine. Volume picked up (100's) from about 20:52 EDT and still in that range. Jack

In a Bulletin IB sent to its customers. Change will be effected Close of Business today (9/30/08). Will affect Interest Rate Futures ZB, ZN, ZF, and ZT and their option products. FYI: To receive advance notification of Performance Bond (margin) changes through our free automated mailing...

Could you explain this a bit? Jack

Almost all the standing orders (native to the exchange) are supposed to get you in or out at or near a limit. They will trigger when IB is down. If they are there to get you flat they are exposure limiting orders. Consider automatic cancellation on comm failure: 1) Connection lost for how...

Did you read and understand the original post? It said: Everybody can complain, but nobody seems to give credit, where it is due:... If I were to use your logic I'd never praise any broker because I pay them all. Jack

IB simulates both those for Island. See: http://individuals.interactivebrokers.com/en/trading/exchanges.php?exch=island&showcategories=&ib_entity=llc Then click on the heavy black bar labeled "Order Types". Jack

I'd pull up an IB chart and look at the Time and Sales. Then look at your Audit Trail and see what you find. Fortunately or unfortunately I was at the dentist during the meltdown and did not see the move(s). In looking at the charts I can see there were some large, very rapid, swings...

I think their are basically two types of mortgages in jeopardy of being defaulted - 1) those sold to people wanting to buy a house for the first time and being sold on their ability to pay. No matter their level of intelligence, they were deceived. The people selling the mortgages were raking...

James: I'd maintain the well understood (). To change now would be very confusing for someone who read the thread from the beginning of your posts and quickly scanned down to the end. You've been posting your results for about six months and everyone else reading the thread has had no...

Take a look at Art's posts for 4-23-08 in this thread. Jack

Daniel: Ninja has many capabilities that IB's BookTrader does not. I've never used Ninja, just read a little about it. It really depends on how you plan to trade. I cannot help you there. Sorry. Jack

Daniel: How have you been testing IB - with the Demo account? If so, you've gotten a feel for the TWS software but not its actual speed. The demo account uses simulated data and I believe runs on its own rather low priority server. It is (or was when I used it a few years ago) slow. To...

Daniel - What do you want to do? 1) Trade futures 2) Trade stock 3) Trade both futures and stock What kind of trading? 1) Scalping 2) Short-term (day) 3) Position IB's datafeed is a modified tick feed. It is very fast but they may omit some ticks so that when they transmit you...

Quarterly settlement of S&P 500, E-mini S&P 500, ....... is based on a Special Opening Quotation of the relevant underlying index. The Special Opening Quotation for each index is based on the opening price of each component stock in that index on expiration Friday. Jack

There is no limit on the rate at which you can contribute, just the amount. I used to reduce spending in the early months of the year and greatly increase my 401K contributions - like almost half my entire weekly salary. Because the 401k contribution is not taxed it does not affect your...