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IB doesn't issue margin calls they just liquidate contracts until you meet the initial margin requirement on the remaining contracts. What brokers let another $4000 a contract (80 ES points) evaporate before they liquidate the position? You should be very grateful to IB for liquidating you at...

Talk to FC Stone about their Futures Direct service http://www.fcstone.com/content/futuresdirect/default.aspx

Finally today IB is showing 10 by 10 DOM for ES, NQ and EMD. Looks like someone at IB fixed a database setting to go from 5 by 5 to 10 by 10.

If you are not familiar with the NFA and the information available at their website you should not be trading futures.

3 NFA cases, 2 resulting in fines and the 3rd one was just filed. "COMPLAINT: On June 10, 2009, NFA issued a Complaint alleging that BFG failed to observe high standards of commercial honor and just and equitable principles of trade; failed to maintain required books and records; failed...

CME shows 926.15 in the daily settlement document. IB will show the correct price after overnight processing.

CBOE has S&P 500 (SET): 926.15

For more firms look at the holding of ishares ETF IAI and weed out the investment manager companies and exchanges. http://us.ishares.com/product_info/fund/overview/IAI.htm

ICI has free weekly data. http://www.ici.org/research#statistics

I wish I did have a good source. IB does not present full information on their website. Here is what an IB rep said on 09/20/2007 in the thread http://www.elitetrader.com/vb/showthread.php?s=&threadid=104460 "We have increased the refresh rate on the index futures, forex and all options...

For the eminis and some other futures the IB snapshot is every 100 milliseconds and for everything else it is 300 milliseconds.

Interactive Brokers has an API that is used by automated traders. Read about it at http://www.interactivebrokers.com/en/p.php?f=api&ib_entity=llc For an open source Java ATS that uses the IB API take a look at JSystemTrader http://code.google.com/p/jsystemtrader/

I've never heard of retail traders getting Globex fee discounts. The changes only apply to exchange members.

The CME announced fee changes for exchange members effective 09/01/2009. No fee changes for nonmembers. The key change is to remove the daily $50.00 Globex fee cap for E-mini equity index trades and replace it with a tiered globex fee discount schedule...

N day (period) breakouts are a Richard Donchian concept, not a Richard Dennis concept. Read all you want about trend trading at http://www.turtletrader.com/

How did you manage to come up with all that nonsense? TICK and TRIN (NYSE and NASDAQ) are both available through the TWS API. I have had no problems with the quality of the historical data available from IB. You can build your own real time bars from the IB snapshot data. No one is...

The 10 day backfill limit is due to QuoteTracker not IB. I can download more than 4 months of 5 second bar intraday futures data directly from IB.

With your $1 million plus account Schwab charges only $8.95 flat a trade for stocks over $1.00 a share.

You are one of the few people that have it right. Anyone who knows about numismatics, notaphily and scripophily knows that what has been described in the news reports are complete fabrications. It is clear the the $134B of fabrications were going to be used in some type of scam or con job...

You are late to the party. The main thread started yesterday http://www.elitetrader.com/vb/showthread.php?s=&threadid=166617