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It's becoming fashionable to ridicule early top pickers and throw out 1% targets much like the entire CNBC fast money crew said $200 oil was a lock in 2008 about a week before it topped. Wish I had the video. Food for thought: I heard multiple times this weekend that bonds are being bought...

Yeah as soon as I read "ban short futures" I dismissed this guy as a lunatic, although apparently he has some cred on the street. Whatever the case it's stupid to obsess over armageddon bets that will never get paid if they come to fruition. If we get to the point where the NY Fed is burning...

No price freezes but I'm getting delayed acknowledgements and fills back from any futures market, GLOBEX, ICE, etc... as of this morning - was working perfectly yesterday (using 926). Has to be an IB issue because it's not specific to an exchange. The lag is somewhere around 5 seconds give or...

Did anyone route direct NSDQ and successfully participate as a *seller* in the FB opening cross? I had a sell order in at 41.95 timestamped 15 minutes before the opening, nothing done and can't get a straight answer.

Ssaya - I had a 41.95 sell limit in before the opening cross, haven't gotten anything back yet. This is ridiculous.

Thanks, I see the status message now on Nasdaqtrader, I guess the issue is with the opening cross. Speaking of, what was the official print, $42?

Still no reports, has anyone gotten a single report from NSDQ yet?

Same, routed to NSDQ What happens when you try to cancel/replace a presumably filled order?

Thanks Kostia - the fixed income and 1:1 energy cracks are working great! Look forward to brent/wti when you get it done. Regarding RB/HO it definitely trades natively on GLOBEX (front month has done about 2100 in volume today), I've executed it many times through two other FCM's and...

Enter one of the symbols for the legs (ZB, ZN, whatever) and you'll see them on the drop-down menu

No way volume moves to ICE if the CME goes through with expanding trading hours. You're just going to have some shit markets from guys autospreading the CME books. WTI is a bad analogy since it exists to facilitate Brent/WT spread trades, not as a pure side-by-side alternative to NYMEX.

Kostia - Great news! Many thanks to whoever made this happen, I personally think the lack of native intercommodity spreads was the only thing holding IB back from being a top-tier futures broker. PS - Please add COIL/WTI (native to ICE/IPE) probably one of the most heavily traded energy...

This is not just a volume issue, starting last week I've also noticed high/low data lagging by up to 30 seconds in TWS (non-API). i.e. crude is still displaying a 104 high while it's trading 104.10 bid, eventually it catches up but this always used to be realtime.

Tradator - Looks like they're starting to roll out the native 1:1 energy cracks in TWS 925, long time coming! Hopefully Brent/WTI and fixed income are not too far behind. Depth was available on the calendars when I first opened my account three years ago, then disappeared.

Who marks options to midpoint of bid/offer?

I'm pretty certain that's no longer the case since IB enabled trading of T-Bills on the secondary market. The catch with IB is - unlike traditional FCM's which let you use the T-Bill itself as commodities collateral, IB forces you to borrow against the T-Bills in the securities account...

Yeah, this, I'd fight it like hell. I can understand some egregious 100:1 ratio or some guy making idiotic markets 16 ticks away via API, but a two lot trader who did a dozen cancel replaces? And out of the 20,000+ messages generated by IB your small account is singled out for the entire...

trader198 - For the benefit of others in this thread can you please share the message IB sent you regarding the $2,000 fine? Also how many separate days were you changing orders in ZB? You would have to violate the rule on three separate instances within 30 days to incur the fine.

(CMEGroup) Please Note: The two notices are provided to the Class A firm regardless of which client(s) caused the product benchmark exception. Class A firm clients are not given individual notices because messaging activity is measured at the Class A firm level, not the client level.

This is true, but it's also unfair to penalize individual traders with the entire $2,000 fine when it is levied based on collective action at a FCM. Say on a given day 3000 different clients of IB generate 9 ZB messages each, no fills, each one individually is compliant with 10:1 but the firm...