thank you all for the very helpful postings. what you said is pretty exactly what i considered about this topic. i plan to trade the nq...
ok - just another amateurish question: it seems that futures-trading (for example the e-mini nq) has certain advatages: high leverage, no...
thank you all for your replies. things are much clearer now for me. but the fact that futures aren't solely used for their original purpose -...
tntneo and tradex21 - thank you both of course - for every short there has to be a long - but isn't it mostly the same for stocks? what is...
i wonder about the following: aren't (also) the futures a considerable factor, that contribute to the current downtrends? if so - i wonder,...
i guess one point is, that EVERYBODY should consider daytrading as a business just like any other one. and like in any other business there can be...
great topic of course - after watching the markets for several years and trying different styles of trading (in various markets) i started out...
ok guys - i catched it. it's certainly a question of trading style - for example trading extremely illiquid markets can sometimes be a big...
as far as it concerns protection for the broker - i guess a broker like ib was not at risk at all - since they will strictly liquidate any bad...
concerning the 4:1 issue: i guess the reason why this is a part of the new rule could be, that they want to compensate the liquidity that gets...
as long as ib keeps on offering the stable technology - fast executions and the lowest commissions around - i guess the party is not over. and...
what i cannot understand is: daytrading futures will not be affected by the new rules. cme even just lowered the initial margin for the e-mini...
as i already mentioned in another thread ("problems with supersoes") - routing to NASDAQ has become useless, since supersoes came around. ib keeps...
roger2, to island: i started my trading on ib-tws with routing exclusively to island - the executions there were always VERY fast - simply...
what about IB's BEST or BEST_ECN - who of you does them use for most of the trades? are they reliable and fast enough?
since "SuperSOES" is here - i have the following problem: i trade with IB and always routed my orders to "NASDAQ" - as we know, those orders...
armaniman, i totally agree with you - i started day-trading in may this year (nasdaq stocks with IB) - i'm not yet profitable - but i learn a...
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