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IB has a full description of their API and CTCI/FIX on their website. Message limit per second: 50 for API and 150 for FIX. $500 setup fee for FIX and $100 minimum monthly commissions.

If you haven't plagiarized "The Disciplined Trader" by Mark Douglas then it is the book you need to read.

Only one second? The Globex can execute a trade every 13.7 milliseconds (as of May 2008 see news release at http://www.reuters.com/article/pres...008+PRN20080513 ) and can update the DOM even faster (since no price matching logic is involved). Can you process up to 100 DOM updates a...

IB has an Institutional Division that does Prime Brokerage, but your account may not qualify.

Not even close to dumping as average daily volume of BRK-A is under 2000 shares. It is a case of a lack of buyers willing to pay up.

I hide my cash under a stack of 1000 oz silver bars. Your average crook is way too lazy to even attempt to lift up one 1000 oz silver bar let alone a whole stack.:D

ECB is quoting 305 ISK to Euro on 10/10/2008.

IB backfill is slow this morning, but it is now working for Globex contracts.

Why start a thread with such a provocative title? I am no fan of Tradestation, but they are nowhere near bankruptcy. TRAD has gotten clobbered because it is a financial/brokerage stock and their profits dry up when low interest rates are low.

The crash is bad news for banks and brokerages on multiple fronts. It is killing the profit margins at banks and brokerages as margin loans are forcibly being paid off. Margin lending is a very profitable business. Brokerages have to take hits for those customers whose balances go below...

The cash bond market is closed for Columbus Day 10/13/2008. "The Securities Industry and Financial Markets Association has confirmed its previous recommendations for an early close at 2:00 p.m., EDT, on Friday, October 10, and a full market close on Monday, October 13, for the trading of US...

Any dealer giving quotes on Iceland Krona (ISK)? Bloomberg story on 10/09/2008 says last trade was 340 Krona per Euro. "The bid/ask spread for the krona against the euro, or the price at which traders are willing to buy or sell, was 225 per euro to 400 per euro as of 11:52 a.m. in...

I can get to the Tradestation site, but they have a problem with their security certificate.

The NYSE was closed from July 31 to November 27, 1914 for World War I. Bond trading resumed on November 28, 1914 and stock trading on December 12, 1914. NYSE closed from March 6 to 14, 1933 for bank holiday.

That is not a freeze up, that is the exact opposite of a freeze up.

What are you talking about? 3 month t-bills didn't freeze up.

The Globex contracts backfill still doesn't work right. Non-Globex backfill works fine.

The options market makers input a volatility into their models to generate option bid/ask prices. It is the rest of us that have to iterate option pricing models to determine the implied volatility.

If you pay the full price to take delivery on your long gold contracts the gold in the warehouses is available to you or anyone else. Obviously, some of the gold in COMEX approved warehouses is held by industrial users and investors and not for sale. There are also other non-COMEX...

Most of the old style (not electronic based) retail futures brokers will arrange for delivery on futures contracts. You have to inform the broker that you want to take delivery, have the cash in your account to pay the full amount of the contract and required fees and will end up with a...