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Better keep reading the Danish news. Another story today in the Copenhagen Post. "Bank is accused of forcing confession out of an employee it says manipulated exchange rates A former employee at Saxo Bank is charging the company with locking him up in a room at its former headquarters in...

No hate here and not looking for you to fail. Assuming that you can generate your stated results why are you limiting yourself? I am serious about you having a documented one year track record trading real money and setting up a hedge fund. Why hold yourself back making thousands per...

Do you have an edge? Depending on the edge, how many times a day you trade it and daily volatility defines what you can profit in a day. Most ES traders cannot make a profit of 1 point per contract per day let alone 5 points.

Each data vendor and/or broker has their own futures symbol makeup rules. ES is the underlying symbol. M is the letter code for June contract. 10 or 0 is year designation for 2010.

Overnight margin on ES is $5,625. $3000 to $5000 a week trading one ES is 53% to 89% weekly return on margin or 2756% to 4628% annual return (noncompounding). I've never seen or heard of any trader with consistent annual results like that. If you can document these results for one year with...

If a stop order is native to the exchange it goes to the exchange, otherwise it sits on IB servers. Read at the details at http://www.interactivebrokers.com/en/trading/orders/stop.php?ib_entity=llc If you don't want anyone to see your stop orders then write your own trading application...

Please give more information on your psychological difficulties with moving from 1 ES contract to 2 ES contracts. Is a fear of the bigger dollar amounts when you have losing trades the problem or something else? Perhaps fear of fear altering your trading? Do you have a systematic...

I understand your English just fine (and I speak zero Bulgarian). I don't know about contract law in Bulgaria, but in most countries a contract that says that you can't trade for yourself for some number of years after you leave a trading firm is not valid. What is valid is a contract stating...

What sleazy brokerage firm tells a third party who their customers are without the customers' permission? None of the brokerage firms I use or have every used tell 3rd parties that I am a customer (except for tax and regulatory purposes). You didn't answer the question "How many brokerage...

What platform? How many brokerage firms offer this platform? If you open an account at a brokerage firm that offers this platform how is your (former) boss going to know about it? Nobody knows what broker and platform I use unless I specifically tell them that information.

I just logged on to TWS without a problem. Of course none of the markets I look at are open now.

Starting from December 2009 IB allows 24/7 TWS access except for short daily reset and 45 minutes Friday night. http://www.interactivebrokers.com/en/software/systemStatus.php?ib_entity=llc

THE CME's IOM division has 1,287 seats. You have to assume the majority of those seatholders are making money or else they would get rid of their seats. There are also 625 CME seats and 813 IMM seats that can trade the eminis.

So what is stopping you from leasing an IOM seat? IOM seat leases currently cost $550 a month. Per side CME exchange fees for ES are $1.14 plus $.01 NFA for nonmembers and $0.46 for lease holders (savings of $0.69 a side). 400 sides a day times 21 days a month is 8400 sides a month. 8400...

Please define your version of "best". Lightspeed offers equities, futures and options and has lower rates for all than IB. Lightspeed uses Penson as their clearing firm. Penson is not my favorite clearing firm, but you might like them.

You don't have to use any version of Windows. TWS runs just fine using UNIX/Linux and that is IB's software development environment.

Here is what indexarb.com says: "Quotations for deposit rates and Eurodollar futures are used to construct the yield curve because they are actively traded and, therefore, have good price (and yield) discovery." http://www.indexarb.com/yieldCurve.html

ES futures options give you SPAN margins. If you better the bid or offer you have top of the book position at that better price.

The speed of your data or filtered/unfiltered has nothing to do with your order fills. Unless you are running a high speed BOT the broker order process is independent of the data feed process. The exchange trade match and fill process is independent of the broker data feed process.

Probably the same reason copper is down 20 cents a pound.