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There is something wrong with both TICK-NYSE and TICK-NASD at IB today. The extremes are not going far enough. $TICK at quote.com shows much higher highs and lower lows.

You left out the key statistic, the ping time to your broker's server.

Did you bother to wonder why so cheap? eOption option order routing (non directed orders): Citadel Derivatives Group LLC 48% Susquehanna Capital Group 32% NYSE Arca Options 18%

Lightspeed charges $40.00 a month for the options data feed.

You are a sleazeball. XRumer is an automated SPAM program.

Did even bother to consider that anyone making false public claims about their futures trading profits would be subject to CFTC and/or NFA legal action and fines? Do you really think that someone is going to fake trading statistics to show that they made an astounding average profit of $5.58...

Nicely produced Azerbaijan political satire starring a donkey. Has English subtitles. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Aaecvg7xCIk The creators, Adnan Hajizada and Emin Milli, have been arrested in Baku, Azerbaijan on trumped up charges of hooliganism.

IB has raised the minimum monthly fees for nontraders from $10 to $20. "Minimum Activity Fee In July 2009, a change to the manner in which the monthly Minimum Activity Fee (MAF) is determined will be implemented . The effect of this change is to no longer allow for Market Data...

Don Miller still would have made more than $1 million in 2008 paying retail commissions. He addressed this issue in one of his blog posts http://donmillerjournal.blogspot.com/2009/01/special-post-final-cme-pricing-thoughts.html He had a net profit of $1,635,103 trading 586,184 sides (293,092...

FV depends on the interest rate you use. indexarb.com says -3.80.

Interactive Brokers holds all cash not used for overnight futures margin in your securities subaccount where it does have SIPC coverage. On the negative side, Interactive Brokers futures commissions are too high and traders can get lower rates at a number of other firms.

Just call Lightspeed and request a copy of their most current financial statement.

That is standard operating procedure. The clearing firm handles the funds and the broker handles the customer interaction. Funds must be sent to the clearing firm. Funds come back from the clearing firm, but must be requested through the customer service interface of your broker. Up to...

It is Penson, their clearing firm, that you have to be concerned about.

You need to reread the exit tax law. The exit tax is applied to the gains on what you sell, not the value of what you sell.

The carry trade doesn't work very well when you are paying too much and have currency risk. Why borrow yen at 1.4% when the IB rates for dollar margin loans over 100K are lower? under 100K 1.68% over 100K 1.18% over 1 million 0.68% over 3 million 0.43%

Don't you bother to read the websites you posted at the start of this thread? The page at http://www.trade-commander.com/twslink/twslink.htm says "Supports all features of InteractiveBrokers API 9.3." IB TWS API 9.3 is a year and a half old. IB has since released APIs 9.4, 9.41, 9.51, 9.6...

Members of futures exchanges get 60/40 treatment and are subject to FICA tax.

QT has sub 1 minute bars down to 0.05 min (3 seconds). Just customize the bar time period. QT doesn't lag TWS quotes for me. I often put the TWS ES DOM on top of the QT ES chart and see the same prices.

If you are daytrading there is no catch with the unbundled commission. Bundled is only better for low volume traders who hold overnight positions. With your volume (about 3000 RT a month) you can get much better rates with other futures brokers.