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IB doesn't have any commission rate that equals $3.80 RT for ES. Sounds like you might be talking about an average for a total of 4000 sides. First 300 sides is $4.70 RT Next 700 sides is $4.30 RT next 9000 sides is $3.60 RT next 10,000 sides is $3.30 RT IB needs to lower their futures...

You have to ask TDameritrade what version of Java runtime works best with their software. I live almost 18,000 ft from my Verizon central office, so 1.5 mbps is the fastest DSL download speed I can get. Most Verizon DSL users have 3.0 mbps download. I have to wait a while for Verizon FIOS to...

You don't have to worry about futures margin cash at IB for 3 reasons: IB is well capitalized, vast majority of cash and assets are on the securites side and aggressive risk management of futures positions. You have to worry at a pure futures brokers that a big loss from other customers will...

Your question doesn't make much sense as you must implement your own strategy to make money. You can use jsystemtrader as is, but the canned strategies all lose money.

Here, let me help you out with IB's margin requirements. The overnight margin requirement is always the overnight margin requirement. Please enlighten us with a list of futures brokers that do something different overnight.

I have Verzion DSL with 1.5 mbps down and 384 mbps up. I use IB as a broker and the IB data feed uses a small fraction of my DSL bandwidth. The TDAmeritrade data feed should only be using only a small fraction of your cable bandwidth. If it is the TDAmeritrade software you having a problem...

Sounds like a software problem/conflict on your computer. What operating system are you running - XP or Vista or ? When you have the freezeup, what does the Windows Task Manager show for CPU and RAM useage? Do you have another computer you can test the same software on?

IB has an ECN Forex trading model and they have no way of knowing all the trades that their market makers make. Chart currency futures if you want to actual trades. Why doesn't a chart of cash Forex market bid or ask meet your needs?

Just open an IRA account with IB and it is taken care of and there is no annual fee. From the IB IRA FAQ: Who is the Custodian? The Delaware Charter Guarantee & Trust Company, doing business as Principal Trust Company, a Company of The Principal Financial Group, will act as the...

IB has realtime Forex quotes on their homepage, just compare the realtime quotes with the demo quotes. IB is known to have noncurrent data in their TWS demo. The IB TWS papertrader has real data, but doesn't give realistic fills on paper trades.

There are noticeable differences because of all the variables involved - such as data feeds, customer front end response, server response, server database response, middleware response, order and account margin verification and final order transmission. TT always claims that they are the...

You are making invalid assumptions. A $8 MM account would not be obliterated. Let's just say that a brokerage firm with $1.393 billion in customer assets goes under because $100 billion goes missing. 93% of the customer assets are still there. If the SIPC has the securities and/or cash that...

Let's look at just one brokerage firm. As of 03-31-2008 Charles Schwab had $1.393 trillion in customer assets. Yes, that is trillion with a "T". What would happen if the SIPC had to liquidate a firm the size of Schwab? The SIPC would sell off the good customer accounts to another brokerage firm...

Fully funded compared to what? As of 12-31-2007 SIPC had net assets of $1.5 billion. How far will that go if a major broker goes under? Of course the SIPC will just assess all brokerage firms to make up any shortfall. From 1996 through 2007 each SIPC member paid a $150 annual assessment...

Don't forget your password(s) !

Thanks for promptly answering my questions.

What clearing firm(s) does TradeMaven use? What data feed(s) does TradeMaven use? TradeMaven policy on interest on cash or T-Bills for margin?

IB charts are not very good. Use QuoteTracker with the IB data feed. I have no problem at all with ES, NQ ER2, YM, EMD charts or any stock charts on QuoteTracker today.

Be aware that IB demo is only to show how TWS works, the prices shown are not realistic.

These days I wear a seat belt while trading. :D :D :D