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Where'd you go Michael?

I've been paying attention to the ATM, Just ITM & and Just OTM Dow options. What has been really confusing me is that the DJX and the options on the DIAMONDS (DAV) seem to move somewhat differently from each other. I know the DJX's are 60/40 for tax purposes while the DAV's may not be. I also...

I've seen the term Futures Commission Merchant used for some brokers. How are these firms different from non FCM brokers? I believe IB is NOT an FCM. So are their executions as fast and direct to Globex, ACE, etc as an FCM's (e.g. GNI out of Chicago)? Thanks a lot!

The card I bought yesterday is a dual monitor card, so there's no need to try both at the same time. Also my computer looks like it only has one AGP PCI slot, so I don't think I could use two cards at the same time if I wanted to. Thanks for help though. :) BTW, I'm having a little technical...

Here's what I did. I bought an MSI MX440 8X video card for $109 + tax. I haven't received the second monitor yet, but the display on the first one looks amazing. Yes it actually looks better. I asked about just installing a second video card and I was told that that does not always work well...

Now did this card have two outputs, or did you add another sigle output card and keep you old one in there as well?

Sorry, I forgot to mention, I'm running XP Pro. Thanks.

I have a Dell PII 333. It works fine becuase it has 384 MB of RAM. I'd like to add a second monitor. Can I just buy another video card and stick it in and attach another monitor. What in the world would happen? BTW, it has a Dell OEM Intel 440LX motherboard with IBM latest P14 BIOS. (I...

Michael: DIRECT ACCESS=DIRECT ACCESS?? You're calling using another clearing firm's servers to access the CME "direct access." However there are other broker dealers whose computers connect directly to the CME, no intermediary firms/computers involved. So I think you're using the term direct...

There are clean installs and there are clean installs. What you want to do is COMPLETELY REFORMAT your ENTIRE hd when doing the install, don't keep any exiting file structures. I say this because there is something called the MFT. This can be heavily fragmented. The only way Microsoft...

Croc, I'm running XP Pro and API 6.0 (not 6.1). I don't have a second machine, so I'd be installing your software on my primary machine. I know you can't guarantee anything, but does this sound like I'm asking for problems installing the older version? BTW, I'm using the older API because...

Really nice of you :mad: :confused:

I posted a message for TS asking when TS will be DA for futures and if you configure TS for single keystroke orders. I'll let you know what they say. :D

I don't know about hot keying stock orders, but I can find out for you if you want. You will get DA ES quotes (but not orders) and DA stock quotes and orders.

Are ES scalping or stock scalping? B/c TS is DA for stocks.

I'm actually in the process of opening an IB account for shorterm ES trading. Are you saying TWS is not very good for that? What's been your experience? Thanks a lot!

It won't happen. There is talk of making TS orders direct access, but that hasn't happened yet. BTW, their ES charts are now straight from the exchanges, but YM are still not. To trade right now you have to run a second prog called TradesStation Futures to enter orders. It's only okay at...

YES. I'll be glad to ans any ?'s you might have.

I guess I should have understood this when I saw REFCO in big letters on the TradesStationSecurities account forms. Their ES, NQ, YM, etc trades all go through REFCO/Lind|Waldock and then to GLOBEX or ACE. This is a serious limitation of a "dayish" type trader, no? Now I understand why...

I don't like calendars either. How can I know that a stock will stay in a trading range for 3 months? And if know it, doesn't everyone else too & isn't it factored into the options premium? I've done some calendars where yes, I've gotten all the premium on the option I sold, but I now have to...