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def, Here I was, getting ready to open an IB account after you said you will offer daytrading margins on the e-minis, now you qualify that with 'select customers.' Could we get more info on the criteria, estimated time etc? Thanks. voodoo

allesim, The multiplier for NQ is 20, not 30, and plus you got the math completely wrong. Also www.cme.com *does* contain information about margin, all though futures traders call it 'performance bond.' Check that site again. voodoo

A basic subscription will give you access to all the tables with the possible exception of the marketmakers (level II) table (I haven't checked, since I don't need that table at the moment.) voodoo

Actually, I'm sure there are a lot of people who are interested in that sort of thing, so instead of mailing that info to anyone, please post it on this thread. Maybe you could post the .c source file as .txt attachment. Does anyone know if dde can be used from within an application running...

what kind of interface do you find most efficient An interface to what? Have you decided what your program is going to be? Is it a scanner? A charting package? An execution platform? voodoo

Tracker, An interesting question. Don't know the answer to the question of legality, however, first of all you can do three day trades in a week (purchase and sale of the same security on the same day,) not 'trades.' Looking at it from the point of view of trying to maximize your profit, I'm...

limitdown, Both ESP and TradeSeeker are simply scanners. That means they go over kilobytes or megabytes of data and find in it whatever you are looking for, kind of like a search engine. You ask them to find all stock the price of which is above $20 and volume above 200,000, and it finds...

You are considered a PDT if you make 4 or more executions within any 'rolling' 5 day period Day trades, not executions. The purchase and sale (in any order and any number of shares) of the same stock on the same day. voodoo

but i stand behind my point: there is a fundamental difference between buying stock and buying a futures contract. after you have bought stock you actually own part of the company. after buying a futures contract you "own" nothing -- you have merely entered a contract with some anonymous seller...

Or just cover part of the chart with a piece of paper, and uncover it bar by bar. :) voodoo

Nicodemus, You are already trading the QQQ's, aren't you? I think I saw your post stating that that's what you usually trade. Trading the NQ shouldn't be too different, with the exception of the possibility of using higher leverage (which, as WarEagle said, you are forced to use if you do not...

Magna, www.tradearca.com This search engine should help you find just about anything. www.google.com A search for 'arca' won't return the correct address on the first page, but if you add 'ecn' it'll work better ;) voodoo

A link that works: www.siliconinvestor.com voodoo

Here is something people might find useful. What other web sites do you read? Discussion groups, news groups, financial web sites, on-line news papers, magazines, etc. etc. What other resources on the net help you trade, or become a better trader? Here are my links...

this is an edit for my previous post: NQ not EQ It was late at night :) voodoo

You can always just download if from your quote provider. What format do you want it in? Text? Those quote vendors who do not provide you with software capable of exporting tick data in some way but which do have an API you can use will allow you to simply download all the data on their...

2) There are more technical traders trading the Q's. It doesn't seem to me to matter what kind of traders trade the qqq/eq. There are plenty of people doing arbitrage, who are willing to take a loss on the qqq/eq side and pass it on to the underlying securities. For those who complain...

That is to say, if the price of a stock goes from $50 to $55, and a long trade nets you $5, they call it a 10% gain. And then in a short trade, if the price of a stock drops from $70 to $63, they call it another 10% gain. They then say it's a 20% increase, but increase of what? Are these...

The exception would be if the month starts on a Friday. :) voodoo

Don, Thanks for the answer, but I'm still not clear on one thing: Isn't Fair Value calculated using yesterday's closing value of the S&P? If the answer is 'yes,' then what use would it be for intra day trading? The difference between the value of the index and futures will vary all the...