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I don't know the exact agreement terms between this Broadway office and Schoney, but 3 months before to close this office, Schoney have do a partial integration of this office at Montreal. In this period, many technological problems have been seen, the technology of Shoney was not reliable in...

I never have seen communique about that, what is the new PDT option rule? Does someone have more info about that?

Interesting suggestion and in theory you can do it, but many pittfall could meet as: Saxo seem support in/out in many currencies, but few FX brokers allow it! You can put them in 3 class i) in/out as Saxo but as mentioned few FX are in this class ii) some major currencies (usually not...

Broadway Mpntreal have been integrated inside Schonfeld some months before to close the doors sometimes later. While this transition the office have used the Boradway plateform with the Schonfeld plateform at the same time. The office have close before a complete transition.

GirlPower, for to talk of arbing, the situation have to be zero risk as a differential on instruments (futures vs options vs stocks) or intermarket's differential (e.g. NYSE vs TSE for Nortel). In each case you have a mechanism for to freeze the differential and take your profit without risk...

Yes Broadway office at Montreal, it was the second or third in profit even with a smaller market than other city. After the merge of Broadway with Schonfeld, they have closed the doors some months ago.

Since many years, IB claim that Datek (Ameritrade now) don't follow the regulation about this topics. I think that the regulator have study this case the last year, but it seem that no result or evidence that Ameritrade is not right since then.

I am not an expert in FX, but from many discussion with FX traders I think that you cannot arbing this case as you mentionned, the case is not so simple than the stock market since the most FX firms are not true interbank quote, these quote are internal for most of them are even if their quotes...

OK maybe NYSE don't want daytrader with small account, but what about Nasdaq stocks, does the earlier PDT is the same (3 trade/5 days) or if they use the same new rule than the NYSE now?

Thank you for this information. I have only one remark, they have the same office location than the oldier Broadway office, I supposed that is the same people who have another startup.

1) FX is more liquid than FX Futures (1500G$ /day against 8.8G$/month for FX Futures) 2) Globex is not a true 24hres, they have some close period in the day, FX is full 24hres 3) Stop on FX are guaranty 4) As mentioned above, leverage, no commission, no data fee, but the spread can be...

If you don't subscribe with an annual package you have an additional 50$/month for to connect at the Level II, after you have another addtionnal fee starting at about 20$/month for the basic L2 service and you can go up over 100$/month with the most complete level. These fees are cumulative and...

Until now, I have browse many of them (small and large firms), and I didn't see trailing stop, only stop order. IMO, this is very surprising for a very speculative market and this feature should be standard for this kind of market. I suppose that some of them support it, but it seem that is...

Does anyone know how much are correlated FX and FX Futures?

Thx for this info about Ib. I think that option on FX futures are traded also on Globex if you check this link: http://www.cme.com/products/currency/products_currency_canadiandollar.cfm BTW, could you give the math on how much it will be required for to trade 1 FX future contract on Cnd...

Steve_IB, I know that IB don't have option on currencies in the moment, but does IB have options on FX futures? Thx

GeorgeSoros, can you give me more information about GFT, because I have seen their website, their platform seem very interesting, but I have some additional question about it that I cannot find on their website as: 1) As the most FX firm they mention no trade cost, but does they have some...

Thx Steve IB for your comments. 1) As estrader mention, I have a similar comment about hours, it should be possible to trade 24hr with IDEAL and 2) Also asuggestion, why not to put stop on IDEAL, you have stop limit on many other instruments, it could be simple to do this addition for a...

Does anyone know if IB plan to offer true Forex trading in the future? I have listen that IB plan to offer option on currency, does someone have more information on this topic? Also, it is possible to put stop on the IB IDEAL system for to protect again a reverse trend? Thx

Yes, but you have need: 1) to leave your computer open with your running program while the market is open 2) you have need an API with the capability to send order. The best example of this was IB in the past, no trailing stop in their TWS, but some users have program it. Now this is not...