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I am not sure what the definition of "care" is but if you tried to take a trade when you do not have enough margin, you won't get it - so i guess brokers do care a lot since no trade - no brokerage fee but more importantly is the percentage return for the trader and its effect on money...

Fohat Posts like you made are really useful - thank u when was it changed? margin makes a big difference to return percentage - so this is excellent news I don't totaly get why i have not been contacted by a broker to tell me this - they would have known the change was coming some...

there is no "centralised" market for CFDs either - the CFD price is a function of the price in the market - not the price in the market but with spreadbetting, you are trading against the "house", with CFDs you are able to trade with other participants - but one of those participants may be...

The spread is about 5-10 points during the first hour. It's not as active until the cash opens. do u mean 5-10 during the first hour of trading and then it is more liquid when the cash opens - if so, what is the liqidity and the volume when the cash opens? 5 might be acceptable if it is...

ktm "The savings vs a $10 broker are enough to still make it worthwhile to pay the exchange fees each month." you would be paying the same fees with any other broker - this is not IBs idea - in fact IB don't charge for the emins if you do a certain amount of business - so if anything, on...

Anyone got any opinion of S&P options - liquidy, correlation to cash or futures, spreads etc?

ktm and wilzo so you actually don't want to see any data on your trading platforms - you just take your trades based on signals from your charts personally as a futures trader - I use the charts to get me into position, but i base my actual decision on the data on the TWS as I feel that...

Tripack which software do u use?

with the mini dow - is it possible to get in an out of the $5 with say 10 contracts at one price, in the first hour of trading? whats the spread in the first hour?

This double paying for data is ridiculous - but i wonder if it is illegal - as they are saying that if you dont pay it twice - you will not get data - and by extension you could not earn your living but as long as the data from both sources is on one computer for one person - they are in the...

AlanM You can use CFDs to trade without paying the tax, and you can also use CFDs to short and also get margin of around 20% CFDs could effectively be looked at as a futures contract, but they mirror exactly the share price - so could be called a "cash contract" Catoosa Where are u from?

isn't that only of use - if your software would not let you change the width or the bars and the gap?

i use 19" monitors - and i have used them at 1600x1200 when i wanted to make a charting window which had a minimum allowable size - smaller on the screen now i dont need that - i set my monitors to 1152x864 - since the default type face in the new charting software i am trying seemed a...

unfortunatly the second someone has put pen to paper to distribute research - that research is then history and analysts crystal balls are driven by the amount of M&A activity that might be gained - but when M&A declines - they get all righteous on ansd want to go back to producing real...

would be interesting to have a comparison of Qcharts, esignal and RealTick from an experienced intraday trader - one who is a high volume trader - more interested in multiple entry signals - than obscure analysis - in other words how good is the software to work with quickly in a changing market

does anyone have the inside line on when will IB have a multi currency account for futures - so you can trade US and European futures from one account and margin conversion is done in the background automatically

i have understood that a dual processor is only of value - when you have a program written specifically to work with it ? also - have you tried just opening one program at a time - even just trying Q charts on one screen etc - till you can isolate where the slowdown comes in?

vulture it does not matter how low commisions are - and i personally believe that in a few years - you will look back and be amazed that anyone payed $10 - but anyway - the level of their profits is not the point - the fact is that they take clients - when they know their equipment is not up...

elocal is owned by RCG - so effectivly they are the same thing - the servers should be RCGs though - so that any IB which uses RCG would go through them - or is this not the case? - i would be pretty pissed off if i was another IB and elocal was given priority - so i dont think that can be the case?

do brokers who take on clients when they probably know their equipment is not up to it - pay the client for the problems they cause the client and when they have screwed up so badly - do they guarantee to make good any losses they cause for new clients who know the history