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By the way Saxobank will not take U.S. accounts any more (unless qualified institutional) because of U.S. CFTC rulings.

In the new site, on the Forums page, I was lost without the threads list that now exists for all forums, but appears to be absent in the new design. The summary only shows the most recent post in each forum, which is not enough. (The recent posts list on the home page will not be enough either...

Yes unfortunately a minority of antivirus engines do seem to flag it. Most do not though. I suspect that it could be a false positive due to use of iFrame etc. - I do not know. http://vscan.novirusthanks.org/analysis/2522cb982eb94201d30b00f82520b331/aW5kZXg=/ : Antivirus Engine Result...

His firm does not do futures......

Note they also have separate "maintenance fees" based on platform and volume in some cases that may interact with the apparent commission rate curve. http://www.tradewithvelocity.com/policy-disclosures/fee-schedule.aspx Do they charge a "clearing fee" too? That is another bogus fee that...

Not necessarily because rates are almost always negotiable regardless of what is published. Most potential customers know this. Just tell them you are moving your account to DDT (and then move it) unless they match DDT rates. Odds are they will match them. They will be able to detect...

My approach is to get all the issues isolated first, then have a one hour phone consultation with Mr. Green to decide strategy, then implement yourself or with a lower cost tax-preparer for actual filing.

You might have been able to make more via an offsetting synthetic sale using options. This would have reduced your margin to a small amount or nothing. Or buy a put to reduce the margin if you want to hold the position. There appear to be lumber options. Although they are thinly traded...

Right some people continually confuse a problem affecting residents of one or two provinces as being a problem with "Canadian traders" generally. Regulation is at the provincial level in Canada, not at the federal level.

It is an unrivaled system back-testing program with decades of built-in historical data. In my opinion most people who use it do so mainly for that reason. It's rates are reasonable too. It mostly lags IB's platform in raw trading functionality though (example: no futures options except...

I think it would be useful to first try to help all former PFG customers by suing to recover funds from other deep-pocketed potential defendants who may have been negligent by ignoring signs of problems in PFG's accounts (or even helping PFG cover up): U.S. Bank J.P. Morgan Auditors The...

Did you try negotiating, ie. telling them that with your particular approach to trading you need them to stick to the commissions previously agreed to for your own account or you would move your account? You probably have to actually be prepared to move your account for this to work.

Do you mean closing accounts for British Columbia residents? BC has prohibited foreign futures brokers. Ontario still allowed them as long as not solicited as of last report.

which has the advantage of being - totally free - publicly available without special request or certification process - enabled for all users without special request - lots of popular tools already using it

"define substantial? is 2 trades 10K each is substantial?" About 500 round trip trades per year according to Robert Green citing recent case law for trader status. Of course there are other factors too...

I'm intend to simulate with data, but I think a lot of it is also going to be statistics: - am I making a small enough bet size in each individual trade, with the protective wings close enough in, to avoid ruin if I get an unusual string of adverse moves?

They only go up in the sense that the Black Scholes pricing model says they do. In this regard, this model may be, and is, imperfect. You could easily "fix" it to give implied volatilities that were more uniform, but then it would be less elegant mathematically. Or, intuitively, a lot of...

Because they are exporting high-tech and up-market goods for which there is not much competition from low-wage countries.

Agreed. I think that some systematic study using a programming language and relatively simple historical data is going to pay off a lot more than looking at beautiful live graphs of n'th degree derivatives.......except of course for market makers.........

You can see a lot of it at the links I posted at http://www.elitetrader.com/vb/showthread.php?s=&postid=3727526 The book is a duplicate of a lot of this material. It is very intense mathematically.