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    trading short

    Traders normally query their broker.
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    Does anyone "spread" daytrade the ES vs. NQ or YM vs. NQ etc.?

    ES contract is worth $62K and NQ is worth $36K, so 1 to 1 spread is not a very good idea. CME requires 1 to 2 for spread margin. You have to do your own correlation studies. You are not going to get high quality profit making information on spreads for free.
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    HAHAHA - Check Out IndyMac's Website

    $32 billion in assets and $8 billion writeoff gives $24 billion in recoverable assets. Uninsured deposits would be entitled to the estimated 75% recovery ratio, thus the 50% advance until final liquidation.
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    Gerald Tsai, dies at age 79

    Gerald Tsai Jr., a fund manager and financier who pioneered the creation of performance funds in the 1950s and ’60s and later turned a canning company into the financial services giant Primerica, died Wednesday in Manhattan. He was 79.
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    New And More Profitable Career

    I know all about numbers and since there is now a position open locally I'm getting into the numbers game. All cash and tax sheltered. TRENTON -- During raids that were nearly carbon copies of ones last year, bookie Alvin Brown was arrested by vice officers who seized piles of cash and stacks...
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    Tick and Data feed Companies

    The historical data is free, they have always charged for real time exchange data. I don't think that users have been 100% pleased with their real time feeds. Do a search on opentick to find the comments. Have you considered opening an account with a second broker that has a tick data feed...
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    Why must I lose?

    Professionals have more losing trades than winning trades because they know how to take quick small losses and let their winners run.
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    Futures traders...

    Single market place (Globex, Eurex and other exchange platforms), 60/40 tax treatment, choice of leverage and commissions.
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    ES qestion

    Depending on your point of view 250+ or 500+ or 1000+.
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    Looking for Historical Time & Sales for ES

    How about free? http://www.slickcharts.com/tickdata.html
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    Day Trading and Estimated Taxes

    Why don't you take the time to read the instructions on IRS Form 1040-ES before posting that " there shouldn't be anything quarterly to pay". And there is no place to register as a trader.
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    FCMs to rebate their money managers

    Rebate what? What does the FCM have to do with money manager incentive fees? Why is a nonForex question about FCMs under "Forex Brokers"?
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    Anybody trading 100+ SPX options per order

    Any serious options trader has their own valuation model.
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    Which one ?

    All brokers have people that don't like them. If you only go by the negatives you will never have an account with any broker.
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    Trade CME / ICE options through IB?

    What about that silly 1 GBP a month for the ICE/NYBOT data feed? How about making it free or at least charging in USD.
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    van der moolen

    They sold the NYSE specialist operations to Lehman on December 10, 2007. http://www.vandermoolen.com/index.php?sid=17&press=153
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    John Templeton RIP

    He lived in the Bahamas with no income taxes. "There is no income or corporate tax and no capital gains or inheritance tax in The Bahamas." Really great and ethical guy to give up US citizenship to avoid taxes.
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    Which one ?

    In broker reviews IB has 298 total votes with 77% positive, so how can you say "I havent heard anything good about them yet" ?
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    Trade CME / ICE options through IB?

    Why not look at the tab FOPs - Futures Options.
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