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Read the information at www.indexarb.com .

Easy to find news on this. From one article: "Cash soft red wheat for July delivery in Toledo on Friday was $1.67 under nearby CBOT September wheat, which closed at $8.11 per bushel. The basis between cash and the CBOT July future was as wide as $2.50 before the contract expired earlier this...

How can the IB web site information be EXACTLY correct when on the "Futures - Intraday Margin Requirements" page it still says in red letters "Due to the exceptional volatility of the financial markets we are temporarily suspending reduced intraday margin."

Please post a list of stocks going to zero so I can get in on this.:D

Thanks for the real life margin info. I only sometimes use the reduced intraday margins. What the IB website says and what TWS does are 2 different things.

Thanks for the clarification. For your trading method it is good that better data gives you a better bottom line.

Thanks for the data feed comparison. A true tick data feed will always beat a snapshot data feed for tick level accuracy. Could you please explain more about "SIGNIFICANT better "fills"" as the data feed and order execution are independent of one another.

On most futures intraday margin reverted to normal last week. You would have to ask IB about contracts such as CL.

I can chart the NYSE volume in QuoteTracker with NYSE:$VOL-NYSE, but can't figure out the symbols for up or down volume. The folks at Ensign say it can be done. See http://www.ensignsoftware.com/help/IBsymbolguide.htm and http://www.ensignsupport.com/email/890.mhtml

There is no shortage of brokerage firms. Open an account with another one.

IB accrues interest daily and pays it in the first week of the following month. You will see the daily interest accrual on your daily statement.

IB specializes in making the simple impossible. What is everyday simple at any other broker is doomsday impossible at IB. Consider IRS accounts. You can withdraw money from your IRA with no problem. You can put money in a ROTH IRA with no problem. But if you have both accounts at IB then a...

The poster promoting it is only stating the good, so I get to state the bad. You need BOTH sides to make a true comparison. I didn't even state the biggie - no futures. I and many others are still waiting for a another brokerage to come along and really compete with IB. How come no one...

$250 per month software fee if less than 200K shares traded. .0035 plus fees for first 300K shares is same as IB. $25 per month options software fee. Options $1 per contract plus exchange fees versus $0.70 plus exchange fees at IB. Overnight margin rate of 7% versus 3.46% (down to...

But it can only be used within the SAS set of software. It is not a general purpose programming language.

SAS is a set of software, not a programming language.

An index is just that. You need to trade an index derivative: futures, ETFs, options or futures options. It is frightening to think that you have a live account and are asking this question.

Read the ES contract specification: "Successive 10%, 20%, and 30% price limits based on the average daily close of the cash index in the last month of the preceding quarter. Price limits are effective only for limit moves below the previous day's close." Globex futures brokers cannot...

He is doing scalping based on his interpretation of what the "market makers" are doing.

If you put the crown on the bear you have the king of the bears.:D