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I trade copper over the phone with my broker at Alaron. He will call the floor to place my orders and get my fills while I wait on the phone. Probably need to do a minimum of 5-10 cars per order to have most firms call the floor. I'd rather be trading them electronically but for now this is...

What are the commission rates? All transactions (trades) are charged $3.00 per 100,000 base currency units (bcu) transacted. http://www.hotspotfx.com/openacct/faq/

The meats are the oldest of the oldest old boys club. They will be the very last to see electronic volume, you ever been down to see them at the merc, gotta love the dry erase boards in the milk pit. :p

...or maybe they should go after a small firm that has a nice floor presence. Know of a few that could fit that bill.

We have a lot of good petrol traders down here in Houston, might be a better location if you opened a satellite office.

Man Group Wins Bidding War to Acquire Solvent Remnants of Refco for $282 Million. In a statement, Man Group said it would also assume $37 million of Refco debt and another $4 million in "other consideration."

Alaron has been around for 16+ years and owns the building they HQ in downtown Chicago. Hardly fly by night. You need to do more research before you spout off.

If a card says 4x DVI and the monitors says DVI-D, are they the same thing? ie: compatible? This monitor: http://accessories.us.dell.com/sna/ProductDetail.aspx?TabPage=techspecs&sku=19053YR&category_id=4009&c=us&l=en&cs=19 With the computers here: http://www.tradingcomputers.com Thanks,

Anyone else remember that day in Oct '97, that was about a year after I started trading. Fun day, I was trading mostly options then, I think my broker was DLJ direct :)

Cyber would need round the clock futures trading and more contracts (bonds, currencies) before I would try them out.

I wonder if the minimum order will stay at $1.00 or go down to $0.50. If not its a smart way for them to keep 100/share lot traders at 1 cent a share. Will be interesting to see.....

Spreading to/in Europe is this weeks news.

Refco bonds plummet to 23 cents on the dollar Fri Oct 14, 2005 09:17 AM ET NEW YORK, Oct 14 (Reuters) - Bonds issued by Refco Inc., (RFX.N: Quote, Profile, Research) the futures and commodities broker enmeshed in an accounting scandal, dropped 17 cents on the dollar to 23 cents on the...

Announces a 15 Day Moratorium on Customer Withdrawals at Refco Capital Markets, Ltd.

Keep track here if you don't have a news feed: http://p088.ezboard.com/fdownstreamventurespetroleummarkets

We (Houston) floods very easy but the good thing is we are above sea-level. The energy concerns are our major refineries, we refine the most in the nation, about 25%.

http://www.daytradersusa.com/nextmeeting.htm These guys use to be called Daytraders of Orange County back in the good old days, late 90's. They may be able to provide you with some info or contacts. If you go down the page it looks like they offer some free get togethers. p.s. The site...

The best is when your spouses job offers these benefits. We pay $100 total a month (PPO) for the two of us together and have full coverage: $5 scipts, $10 office visits, and $50 emergency visits. Also zero deductible.

Houston-based Gulf Coast physical marketing hub (wholesale) is trading at $3.15 a gallon.

Actually we live (in the US) in a Republic. The contrasts between the two can be large.