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Are there any prop shops set up with -ICE Power Swaps (cleared or uncleared) and/or -Membership in ISO/RTO's for the purpose of virtuals, up-to congestion trading, etc.. Unlike futures you need ~$1 MM AUM for ISO/RTO markets and ~$10 MM AUM for ICE, so I would think prop shops would...

It's been almost six long years. That is one long arse non-compete. Also a non-compete does not preclude a re-purchase.

Considering TDA's epic failure at monetizing QT and QT's lack of overlap with TOS, I would think TDA would love to get QT off their books. Seems to me like there's a giant vacuum between the $0/month barchart.com and the $200/month DTN ProphetX's of the world.

I wish they would sell it. Never made sense to exist at TDA. Maybe Jerry Medved would pick it up again. Happens all the time, new buyers are clueless, destroy value, and the original owner re-buys.

Don't shoot the messenger, this is what TDA is saying when you need some help. Never understood the point of their purchase of QT, made no business sense, they are not going to get additional TDA users.

03/27/2012 QT is in the beginning of the draw-down process. Too early to have very much info available. QT was programmed in Delphi for Windows 95 and a business decision has been made to cease support and maintenance of QT, so we are trying to integrate as many features as we can in to...

Anyone trading nodal exchange these days?

Thanks CET, hopefully they're browsing ET this Easter vacation!

Bear in mind, if I take the straight offer and renegotiate later I will have a much much weaker best alternative to negotiated agreement and theirs will be much stronger. Right now my batna is to stay at my current position, receive nearly the same level of pay with hours from 8-5 and limited...

I forgot to mention, the rotational experience was managing the same portfolio of plants (current company used to manage this portfolio). i.e. I'm the only applicant with experience managing this portfolio.

Hi all, I recently applied for and received an offer for a position at a shop that provides power plant management services. The issue is that the HR guy comes from their retail load subsidiary, whereas I would be working in the wholesale load and power plant management subsidiary and he is...

The answer from support is basically: Equity has to remain above 50% for the equity position through 3:50 PM, at 3:50 PM the SMA account is checked to see if its >0, the SMA will not change for the equity transaction after the transaction day if one is holding the position, but 25% maintenance...

OK, so it seems that RegT is tested only on the transaction day

For ICE and NYMEX Futures margins are fixed at some dollar value per contract regardless of contract price, and halved during the day So for natural gas 10,000 MMBTUs/contract there's overnight initial and overnight maintenance, say $8k and $6k, and then daytime initial and daytime...

I've traded equities on AMTD and now TDA for 4 years, who are you to tell me I'm not ready to use IB? I've also traded NYMEX & ICE futures for 2 years. Princeton has consistently placed in the IB trading olympiad. I think I've earned the right to ask these questions and would prefer it if you...

Gee thanks for that insightful response. Except..the point is I shouldn't be worried about margin calls @ 2:1 overnight unless there's a 20%+ drop rather than 1-3%... it has nothing to do with being overleveraged, it has to do with how RegT Initial Margin is calculated, maintenance is set by...

I'm at a loss for how IB's overnight margin requirement works for non PM accounts. If I have $100k in my account, and at 2 PM I purchase say 2,000 shares of XYZ at $100/share, and at the end of the day XYZ has dropped 1% to $99/share, my equity is $99*2000-$100k = $98k. If RegT Initial...

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Hah why those two particular cities? I live in New York City and attend college in New Jersey The reason I know a bit about Sarkozy is a close friend has been in Madrid the past 6 months for a semester abroad for his b-school program, and we were discussing socialism vis-a-vis Western...

On another note it surprised me that Sarkozy was elected as the new french president... I mean he is ethnically a 1/2 hungarian, 1/4 sephardic greek jew, 1/4 frenchman whose wife is half gypsy half jew. He's leader of a conservative party that wants a more british/american work week, and...