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    IB Intermittent Disconnects/Reconnects

    I had similar problems with Road Runner in 2006 and 2007: frequent disconnections, over 75% package loss in the ping test, tracert timed out before reaching the designated IP address, etc. After tons of phone calls and a lot of testing, Time Warner Cable ( NY ) found that I had signal...
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    Help with IB wont execute my limit option spread order..screenshot

    You may find the following threads useful: http://elitetrader.com/vb/showthread.php?s=&postid=1107774&highlight=spread#post1107774 http://elitetrader.com/vb/showthread.php?s=&threadid=75976&highlight=spread
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    Best Platform for trading futures options?

    For options on futures, such as ES, ER2 options, IB charges $1.81 per contract, not $1.7. It was $1.65 before 2007.
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    Good Brokers for options, futures and futures options

    Hi Guys, Besides Interactive Brokers, are there other brokerage firms at US allowing their customers to trade Options, Futures and Options on Futures ? Thanks !! :p
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    Bye-bye reg T

    After getting the approval from Interactive Brokers to upgrade my trading access from Regular T to Portfolio Margining in April, I sold 10 contracts of Russell 2000 Call about 10% out of money, the initial margin requirement reduced from approximately 80,000 to around 50,000. (There was...
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    DJX assignment.

    According to CBOE, the index settlement value for DJX on September 21, 2007 is 139.07. http://www.cboe.com/data/Settlement.aspx
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    Question on reading option tables

    The multiplier for options on E-mini Russell 2000 Futures should be 100. Please double-check your results.
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    Question on reading option tables

    Visit the home page of Interactive Brokers: http://individuals.interactivebrokers.com/en/main.php Then, select Trading ---> Product Listings ---> Future Options You'll see a list of exchanges. Choose the appropriate exchange, and then the product. For example: CME...
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    How they really made lots of money...

    I cut and paste the following statements from the web site: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Renaissance_Technologies Renaissance Technologies is a hedge fund management company. Renaissance was started by Jim Simons in 1982. Its $6 billion Medallion Fund has averaged 37% annual returns, after...
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    How they really made lots of money...

    Being an old man, I have a bad memory:D The inception time for Medallion Fund was March 1988. Should double-check by using Google, before opening my big mouth.:(
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    How they really made lots of money...

    I get all the data from the following web sites: http://www.forbes.com/lists/2005/54/5GZ7.html http://www.turtletrader.com/trader-simons.html http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Harris_Simons http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Renaissance_Technologies...
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    How they really made lots of money...

    IMHO: James Simons' multi-billion Medallion Fund has averaged 35.6% annual returns, after fees, since 1989. Excluding 44% performance fee, and 5% management fee, the average annual return will be much higher, probably close to 70%.
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    ES or SPX options

    I ***THINK*** you cannot buy and sell the same products to pump up the volume. This is market manipulation. If the above rule is true, even market-makers cannot quote the bid-ask prices. Suppose I have bought 10 contracts of an ES option(average price 1.05), and the bid-ask price are 1.0...
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    ES or SPX options

    In contrast to SPX options: There is no cancellation fee associated with ES options. Retail traders can submit BUY and SELL orders of the same ES options to CME at the same time (act as market maker). Trading ES options involves higher commissions. ES options have a multiplier of...
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    Black Monday

    No. History always repeats itself. This could easily be the tenth thread on this message board with the title "Black Monday" since 2002. :p
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    Buy and Hold Work?

    If everyone just needs to buy and hold some good stocks, and becomes millionaires, who will work at the farms, restaurant, or supermarkets ? A lot of people will starve to death. Hundreds of thousands of mutual fund mangers in the past and at the present have employed the buy-and-hold...
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    E minis FOP euro or American ?

    CME E-mini S&P 500 End Of Month future options use European-style exercise rules. The other CME E-mini future options are American style.
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    Buying/Selling Options

    Business is business. They may be just trying to protect their revenues/profits.
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    Why is it so hard to beat the market?

    Size DOES matter too. Since you are not a trader, but an investor, it may be better to compare your performance with that of a mutual fund manager. Bill Miller is considered one of the best in the industry. His Value Trust Fund outperforms the S & P 500 for fifteen consecutive years...
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