Really you need to negotiate before you fund an account. Once it funded, you have agreed on a rate and they have little reason to change it....
Likely not. See https://www.interactivebrokers.com/en/?f=ibgStrength&p=acc "... under Interactive Brokers LLC excess SIPC policy with...
Excellent list! Baird is an easier read and is high-level - it is all about one overall approach and risk. Cottle is mostly mechanics (which...
I will PM them to you ........they are not allowed to solicit in the U.S. and even though I am not their agent, it will help keep this going to...
....for HK residents, US residents, UK and Australian residents and Canadians. It seems to me that this may be a temporary regulatory issue IB...
Well I was not thinking about fx or mt4 at all. I was thinking of stocks quoted in the form of CFD's by a real broker such as IB (outside North...
That is correct and many posters here are not delta hedging appropriately. They make no mention if it. They are naively stating that you can...
Realized vol may be lower than implied, but you will still lose money if there is a trend against you. For example, consider a slow steady rise...
I know that you meant this, but just to be clear, it is not an advantage in the bigger picture, because the passage of time also allows the...
In fact, a lot less than $5 trip. Slightly over $2 per side ($4 round trip) from IB or DDT, including platform fee. Fir those considering...
IB charges: $0.85 Commission $0 Clearing $1.14 Exchange $0.02 NFA $0.00 Platform Fee which would be 66 cents cheaper per side (others...
The lowest fee you will get from any safe broker for low volumes is 50 cents commission to the broker per side plus exchange fees plus any trading...
I agree and know many traders who will not post on ET because of the abrasiveness of many threads. I realize that some off the most frequent...
On the securities side, see http://www.sec.gov/divisions/marketreg/faq-15a-6-foreign-bd.htm look for "U.S. citizens resident abroad" On the...
Those are not the only kinds of CFD's. CFD's are a very common way of trading stocks (not futures) in many countries that are used to avoid...
U.S. regulations on products that can be marketed to U.S. citizens have an exemption for U.S. citizens resident abroad. So you should be ok....
IB cannot be matched overall if you need their broad range of services at lowest cost. There is nothing even close unless you want to pay more....
For LQD, see the prospectus http://prospectus-express.newriver.com/summary.asp?clientid=isharesll&fundid=464287242&doctype=sai p. 131...
That's interesting to know. It does appear they are adding new enhancements to horizontal skew modeling, for futures at least, in version 7.3:...
That's for vertical skew, not horizontal skew. Their horizontal data is a always a composite 60 days out (which, by the way, can also distort...
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