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What cheap fees ??? Have you bothered to look at Lightspeed's fee schedule for futures ??? Lightspeed lists the same $1.14 Globex and $0.01 NFA fee as every other futures broker.

The $1.14 a side is not a routing fee. Globex is the electronic exchange owned and operated by the CMEGroup. Every public customer has to pay the exchange $1.14 per side to trade ES and the other index futures. The only way to pay lower Globex fees is to become an CME exchange member.

Nothing because it is total absurd nonsense spouted by nitwit kooks. This isn't even good enough for Chit Chat. Can we please start an "Absurd Nonsense" forum?

Iceland is not tiny. With land area of 103,00 square KM Iceland is larger than countries such as Hungary, Portugal, Serbia, Austria, Czech Republic and Ireland.

Looks like the CME wants to kill off the YM. How many RTs a month do you do? If you do more than 274 RTs a month Transact Futures charges $3.76 RT for ES, NQ and YM.

First step is to make certain your RAM is good. Download and run Memtest86+ from http://www.memtest.org/ .

The answer FireFox gives. http://www.firefoxanswer.com/firefox/2496-firefoxanswer.html

You are confused as Alaron is still a FCM. Alaron is no longer a clearing firm and they are now using Penson as their clearing firm.

Please look up the definition of "pre-arranged trade". Payment for order flow may give bad executions, but clearly the customer doesn't get to set the price by trading with himself.

I cannot look up a regulation that does not exist. Please note that after the 6 consecutive day closure after 9/11 the NYSE was closed 4 consecutive days from 12/30/2006 through 01/02/2007.

The proper terminology is "pre-arranged trading". Pre-arranged trading is a violation of the Commodity Exchange Act, CFTC regulations and the regulations of every exchange. IB is required to report your pre-arranged trades to the exchanges where the trades took place and to the CFTC. Best...

Roy Neiderhoffer is Victor's brother and a hedge fund manager. http://216.194.17.38/NDF/General/Index.php

The NYSE was closed for 4 business days from 09/11/01 to 09/14/01 and opened for trading on 09/17/01. Please specify which federal regulations regulate exchange closings.

I had one of those flexible wire Y shaped FM antennas that I had taped to a window for best signal reception. It used to tick me off when sometimes a plane or helicopter flying overhead would interfere with the radio signal. The internet data feeds are like magic compared to that.

What are you looking to do with FX? Most of the FX dealers are bucket shops. If you want fair FX markets then use a broker with an ECN model such as IB or trade the Globex FX futures.

I see that you are not familiar with modern internet lingua franca. :D When you were told that the ES only started in 1998 you said that you had been trading the big S&P 15 years ago and "thanks for the history lesson", thus you PWND the 1998 ES commenter. BTW I still have one of those FM...

"IB caters to professional traders and investors and requires its customers to spend a monthly activity fee minimum which may include commissions, market data fees, special connection minimums and other fees. Those customers spending less than the activity fee minimums (as stated below) in any...

PWND = OWNED

1. OI = Open Interest 2. Because nobody else trades the March contract.

I'll take a stab at it that you are looking for a book such as "The Treasury Bond Basis" by Galen D Burghardt. You can read a preview at Google Books.