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I am going to be blunt, you have no idea what you are doing so for your own good drop the idea of selling naked index futures puts. This is a flawed idea. There are no consistent profits over time. Selling naked index futures puts over time (even with adjust plans) is certain to wipe out your...

Only announcement today. Add to SPX and OEX at TBA date in future.

The Euro is down 4 consecutive days.

That 14 milliseconds for Globex has to be outdated. As far as I know the Globex data update rate is faster than the Globex trade matching rate. From the Globex Fact Sheet (September, 2009): "We execute customer trades in under 7 milliseconds on average, with some markets trading in 2.5...

It is not just IB charging this ORF. From optionshouse http://www.optionshouse.com/rates/fees/ "The following options exchanges assess an Options Regulatory Fee (referred to as the "ORF fee") on options transactions executed by its members: Chicago Board Options Exchange ("CBOE") -...

I don't see poor judgement on IB's part. The leverage available to retail equity traders using margin is well below that of prop traders and retail futures and FX traders. IB has a business and marketing advantage in offering very low equity margin rates. Why not advertise the firm's...

www.citronresearch.net works just fine. Guess it isn't a top yet. :D

1.25% is a blended rate for 400 K margin. IB has tiered rates for margin interest. 100K and under 1.61% over 100 k to 1 MM 1.11% over 1 MM to 3 MM 0.61% over 3 MM to 50 MM 0.36% over 50 MM 1.36% (risk premium) IB is going after the customers already using margin at other brokers and...

I don't understand what you want to do. I'll repeat myself "At IB market data subscriptions and trading permissions are independent of one another." Aside from the free ones you pay for market data subscriptions. You do not pay for trading permissions. For example, I have trading...

At IB market data subscriptions and trading permissions are independent of one another. "US Securities and Commodities Bundle Non-professional - Level I Includes all Stock, Options, Futures and Bond markets United States Subject to Waiver" is a market data subscription, not a trading...

Month end fair value settlement prices are independent of where the index futures traded at the close. "Month-End Fair Value Procedures Understanding the End of Month Fair Value Settlements Special Fair Value (FV) stock index settlement procedures are applied on a monthly basis...

What used to be the common understanding of scalping among futures traders is vanishing as the pits vanish. The very nature of scalping as practiced in the pits was to continually take small postions and turn them over quickly to properly feel the ebb and flow of the market. Bids and offers give...

You raise an interesting point about student success. I don't know how good an educator Don Miller is, but he believes that he is a good one. And he is not educating a random selection of students. Don Miller did not take the first 20 people who applied to be Jellies. He interviewed more than...

Is everyone that dislikes Don Miller factually challenged? Why can't you even get simple factual information correct? The facts are all clearly stated in the blog. In 2008 Don Miller had a net profit of $1,635,103 trading 586,184 sides (293,092 RTs). The net profit per RT is $5.58 or less...

IB does have multiple servers farm around globe. "IB operates three main computing centers around the globe: Europe, the U.S. and Hong Kong. New customers are automatically assigned to one of these server facilities based upon their location and/or trading preferences." I have been having...

TWS back up and I can now get to other websites also.

30 seconds after I posted that I lost all my TWS data except for CL and SI.

Philly suburbs here. My TWS connection is working fine, but there are many websites I can't get to such as interactivebrokers.com, bigcharts.com, nytimes.com and others.

Really tough times for professional ES traders. Only 2 months later and IOM seat prices are way down. Last IOM seat sold went for only $162K (bid is now $180K). IOM lease prices are down to $1,100 a month, but one 3 month lease just went for only $800 a month.

Another asinine ET loser posting nonsense. "Dollars to doughnuts he's not a member of the CME. Someone should do a little investigation on this issue." Did you bother to pick up the phone and call the CME membership department and ask them? Afraid to call or is the call too expensive for...