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As far as I know, Bloomberg has a single price policy for all subscribers, whether retail or institutional. I'd guess that the price is the same everywhere but don't know whether there may be differences between NY, Tokyo, Jakarta, etc.

I also have TS6 and IB along with Bloomberg. You will have to contact a salesperson. You have the option of subscribing to their service either for use on your hardware or theirs. I use their hardware at no extra cost: PC with 2 vertical 15" flats. It's expensive: $1700/mo now.

A NASD-required form that is used by brokers to report equity transactions after the market's usual hours.

I used to be deeply involved with SPAN at the CME clearinghouse a few years back. The basic premise of the calcs is actually pretty simple. Putting it all together gets more complicated. As an option trader you first must know that your requirement will change daily as the price of the...

It's a modified cap.-weighted index. No security can have more than a 24% weighting. For details, you'd have to contact the Naz or the CME

It all goes back to the hunter/gatherer thing...

I'd like to build a serious multimonitor workstation for trading and system development with the appropriate backups to brokers, the internet, hard drives, etc. to avoid some of the nightmares I read about here at ET. It would be very helpful if the Workstation Guide was updated to include...

While I don’t have a degree in financial engineering I did take a fin. eng. course while at the MBA program at the U. of Chicago. I also took time series analysis (ARIMA, GARCH, etc.) and others. They are by their nature very mathematical and those methods can be employed to create trading...

RS7, I don't want to rain on your party but here are some questions for you regarding your approach to relative strength: 1. Relative strength is relative over some time frame. You imply that a sector/stock is strong/weak relative to the previous close. Why not relative to its open or a...

It was John Houseman for Smith Barney... "We make money the old fashion way. We earn it"

Not true. You don't need new flow. Here's a much simplified example. Bill Gates never took MSFT public. He own's 100% of the share. Earnings increase year after year. Balance sheet stockholders equity increase year after year. Stock price (value) increases year after year.

Here's an answer to the zero sum game question that I think any finance professor will agree with. Equity markets are not zero sum games. Equities are assets with the potential to increase the wealth of all stakeholders. A rising tide lifts all boats. Futures trading is a zero sum game...

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The first day that you have this position on at the end of the day you're required to have the initial margin requirement in your account. If you don't you get a margin call for the difference between the initial requirement and your account's net liquidating value. Broker's and clearing firms...

This is because of the spike in NQ futures that occured after the cash closed. The final mark in the futures was way out of line with the final mark in the cash so when they came back in line this am the futures change today reflects that spike close.

Yes, all futures are MTM every day and sometimes more often for intraday clearing firm margin requirements. MTM every day is what is also referred to as variation margin.

Your broker will decide what your day-trade margins will be. Many will allow 1/2 of overnight margins. If they don't you should seek one who does. Clearing firms have to meet an intraday margin requirement from the CME clearing house but you don't. You can get margin rates here for these...

Seanote, do you use any software that filters for anomolous changes in option volume or have you just been keeping an eye on CYMI?

For Bloomberg you can contact a rep here: http://about.bloomberg.com/professional/profservice.html The last time I asked about service at home the cost was $1,600/month. Don't know about Instinet...