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"high-volume" is relative.

Use MB solely as a backup and nothing more. Here are my data points: -Cheap commissions. Use them to get other brokers to come down on pricing. -Data feed outages. Still happens in fast markets despite the improvements they claim. -Their back office systems are horrible. Frequently...

Eh, a gig of RAM? 1GB DIMMs cost what, $40 now? No excuse not to have at least 2GB of RAM. Even then, if all you're doing is running NT and Windows, 1GB should be more than fine. NT rarely has a working set larger than 98MB for me. Sounds like there were a lot of other apps running in the...

Really? Funny, my computer is 5 years old, runs NinjaTrader (using Pats and opentick), ThinkOrSwim, and MB Trading Navigator all on the same machine. Does totally fine. Never bumps above 15-17% CPU utilization. Sounds like user error or an ancient computer.

I use Global as one of my futures brokers using NinjaTrader. Haven't had any issues so far. They're really just an introducing broker to RCG. No monthly fees and my all-in RT fees are pretty decent for the volume I do. However, I don't do all of my trading through a single broker. It's not...

ThinkOrSwim has portfolio margining for smaller account sizes.

The problem is 100% MBT's and not Penson's. I have accounts at other brokers that clear through Penson (ThinkOrSwim) and none of them had issues like MBT. This is not the first time this has happened and every time MBT tried to blame Penson. Hey honestly though, who cares? I have an account...

They were down for a good chunk of the morning, including the open.

It's mostly a result of last week's window dressing. Out of large caps, into small caps again. Running in place rotation mainly.

It's more a payment for order flow issue than a "costs more" issue. They'll route you to whatever exchange is paying them the most at the time for their orders.

ThinkOrSwim (ToS) hands down. Have you actually used the two platforms? Have seen the modeling and analysis tools that ToS gives you for free? Easily the best freely available software platform out there. Oh yeah, their brokers and support folks are in Chicago and native english speakers. No...

Other people have covered this topic before in a manner better than I can. I'd suggest picking up a good options book. The Laryy McMillan ones were good when I first started. The two strategies you just inquired about are short verticals and short naked calls. He goes over both of those.

Naked puts are not any riskier than covered calls. They have the exact same profit profile (aside from lower commissions). Also, there's nothing wrong with shorting calls if you're long an equal amount of stock (or calls at a higher strike). It's when you're net short calls that you're...

ES was easier than ER2 today from a breakdown/breakout standpoint. ER2 was acting strongly -- ES would dive to new lows and ER2 would begrudgingly drop a few ticks but nothing major. It's usually the other way around. Still, today wasn't particularly choppy or difficult. There were some...

my bad! misread that one. yeah they've been dragging their feet with options on futures and single stock futures.

They've had them for years. You can enable futures trading for your account online.

I call BS on the "Penson was too backlogged" excuse. My other futures broker is ThinkOrSwim (who also clears through Penson) and ToS had no issues at all that day. Those suggesting to go to online chat have had better luck than I have in the past. I've found the online guys to be totally...

There are three big issues with MBT and why I (a current MBT customer) am looking around for another broker. 1) Their quote systems have not been able to keep up during big volume spikes that have occurred recently. They will get stuck, then "blank out" for periods of time lasting up to 5-7...

If I were you I'd hope that IB switched to the ICE listing ASAP -- assuming that the volume and depth is there. "NYBOT exchange and clearing fees for transactions on the ICE electronic platform for both the Russell 2000® full-size and mini contracts will be waived through September 2007."...

I just re-read your post and now fully understand just how poor IB's implementation of this very standard security practice is. They're doing it in a non-standard (and very flawed) way. The industry standard, accepted way of using it is to replace (or augment) the passphrase component of a...