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Which interest rates - long, short or intermediate? The yield curve doesn't move up and down in unison.

In the last 10 years there were a number of times that interest rates on bonds were below zero in Japan.

As long as brokerage firms want their customers to churn their own accounts low intraday margins are not going away.

Just look at the 30 stocks in the DJIA. Financial, retail and industrial stocks are strong today.

Because all their investors don't like day/short term traders and would yank all their money out of the fund if the fund manager was not an investor type. Try to start a hedge fund based on day trading and see how much trading capital comes your way.

The $0.10 is only charged if the position is held overnight. For daytraders it is 7610/2000 = ~3.80 USD.

Question 1 for USD answer is (C) Principle * (0.06 / 360) * 1 Question 2 for USD answer is (C) Principle * (0.06 / 360) * 3 Note that the margin interest calculation works by settlement date not the trade date.

Eurodollar futures are a short term interest rate contract. How much do you suppose that short term interest rates move from day to day?

It better fluctuate or we would all have nothing to do.:D

No one here on ET speculates on price movements, we all know what the market will do in advance. All that volume in options is not for hedging purposes.

I told the OP "You cannot buy your way to trading profits." and you come along and make a liar out of me. :D

You can short stock, bonds, futures, calls, puts and whatever else trades. Your "hedge" makes no sense because long and short the same stock means you have zero position in the stock and no hedge at all. Naked shorting of calls and puts is very risky for people who don't know what they are...

Let's just say you purchase a bot that generates 1 or more ES point per day. How many days into the future is this bot going to work? Do you stop using the bot before or after it wipes out your account? Unless you develop your own trading strategy and implement it in a bot, you are doomed to...

The QuoteTracker directions for using with IB datafeed are at http://www.quotetracker.com/help/ib.shtml . Be careful with the number of spaces when entering symbols for eCBOT contracts.

QuoteTracker works very well with IB, is way better than IB charts and is free.

You are ignoring the fact that large investors know that what works with $20,000 doesn't work with $1 million and up.

Why don't you go read about Evan Dooley and how he lost $141.5 million of MF Global's money.

If you violate margin by $1 you get a margin call. You close the position, take the loss and since you now have less money in the account just trade smaller size. If you use a broker like IB you don't get a margin call as they just close out enough contracts to bring you back into margin...

Evan Dooley had no problem trading wheat at MF Global without enough margin. If your broker doesn't have proper risk controls you can do what you want until they shut you down.

Nonsense. Go to the IB website and read about the futures contracts they offer for trading. IB has had ER2 trading available on ICE for many months. Just subscribe to ICE/NYBOT data for the data feed.