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Why don't you read up on 10b5-1 plans. Planned insider selling is nothing special.

Most futures brokers want to see some volume to give lower rates. 200 RTs a month isn't much volume. Interactive Brokers charges $4.70 RT for ES (first 300 sides = 150 RTs) Here are some lower cost futures brokers. Keep in mind that you may not like their platforms, data feeds or customer...

You left out the NFA fee of $0.01 for an unbundled ES total of $2.35 a side. If you daytrade you go unbundled. If you go overnight and trade less than 300 sides a month you go bundled. Or go to another futures broker with lower commissions to start with and no overnight carry charge.

Here is the best list you can find: the CFTC financial data for FCMs http://www.cftc.gov/marketreports/financialdataforfcms/ If you want firms regulated by the CME look for CME under the DSRO column.

If you really want to sell a charting application to customers it has to work with broker datafeeds. Look at QuoteTracker www.quotetracker.com and all the datafeeds that it supports.

That is not a SEC fee, it is the Securities and Commodities Exchanges data fee charge of $10 for not paying $30 in commissions. If the account is not active you would be better off moving it to another broker or put it in an IB advisor structure with an active account or accounts.

How can you not expect people to respond when reviews full of nonsense about IB are posted? "They steal pennies" and "The Slippage Factor" reviews are full of nonsense. IB has never stolen any pennies or dollars from my account. I trade the ES using TWS and have no slippage problems...

ES at 1067.50, contract worth $53,375 YM at 10014, contract worth $50,070 For the 6.6% difference in contract value intraday spreaders just trade 1 to 1, not 5 ES to 6 YM. For position trading it would be 15 ES to 16 YM at current prices. Here is a CME writeup from 2008...

Thanks for running the ping test. pingtest.net must be mapping your IP address wrong. The test does show that you have a very high quality, low latency line. For anyone who wants to do connection testing, DSLReports.com has a set of tests available at http://www.dslreports.com/tools

WinstonTJ, for general comparison purposes would you please run the ping test at www.pingtest.net and post the results.

Not quite correct. FICA tax has 2 parts. There is a income cap ($106,800 for 2010) on the Social Security Tax of 12.4%. There is no income cap on the Medicare tax of 2.9% .

Wrong. You quite obviously don't understand the tax laws. You can lose big money and have serious tax problems. If you owe big money and can't repay it and the loan is written off then the amount of the loan becomes taxable income. And you then owe big taxes on the big written off loan...

That $0.99 per side is without exchange fees and can easily be beat. $0.99 per side amounts to $4.28 RT for ES. You can get $3.80 RT from futuresbroker.com and $3.30 RT from LightSpeed. The more trading capital the better as you will be losing it quickly.

IB is just passing along data fees that exchanges have started charging. Yes, it is annoying, but the monthly fee is minimal if you want the data. IB still offers a good data feed for free. Go look at what TradeStation charges for the same data...

Most futures brokers that have a free platform do not charge for a live CME data feed. What do you consider very low commissions? There are a number of futures brokers that have all-in ES commissions for $4.00 or lower RT for low volume. The lowest all-in rate for low volume is $3.30 RT...

QT version 3.9.6 handles the new options symbols. "For OPTIONS you should use the standard option symbol prefixed with a period. You would need to get the actual symbol from IB web site or TWS. for US Option symbol formats, please refer to IB's Option Symbology Initiative page. For Example...

About time that the CFTC stood up for actual futures exchange competition.

Everyone trading ES has to pay exchange fees. Just look at the CME fee schedule.

With that volume they qualify for a .225 discount per side on Globex fees. So only $48 K in exchange fees.

Selling well out of the money puts and calls is called a strangle. The strangle has this nomenclature because that is what happens to you when you are wrong. Short strangles by their nature lead to a bad combination of small profits and large losses over time. You don't get pleasant suprises...