Another option is to put an entire operating system onto a USB flash drive or onto a CD-ROM (or both). When on the road, I mostly trade from my...
I had similar problems with Firefox... worked great at first, but gradually deteriorated over time. I switched over to Opera and have had no...
I have yet to come across a realtime trading application written specifically for Mac. Some firms, like Interactive Brokers, have Java...
On TT, GC is Comex (Nymex) Gold traded electronically on Globex. It can definitely be traded, but the spreads are typically 2 to 4 (sometimes as...
Its not so much a question of speed, as much as a question of bandwidth. For instance, here is a chart of the over the air estimates based on...
Maybe one day wifi will be as fast, stable, and have as much bandwidth as a hard wired line, but as far as I know, that day is not today. If I...
Not sure I'd want to be using a wifi for a trading firm.
Glad to see that coming out with new features is still a higher priority than fixing existing bugs and stability related issues that have existed...
nobody trades for free (but they do get deeply discounted fees).
As long as you have power to your cable modem (i.e. via a UPS) and the cable company has power on their side (i.e. many many UPS's), you should be...
If you say so, who I am I to argue... all I know is I called my mortgage broker last week to inquire about a property I was considering and he...
From what I hear nobody is writing non-conforming loans right now (especially jumbos)... just go buy something that fits the standards for a...
If you're trading mostly Globex products, and you do at least 25 sides per day, then you might want to look at a CME Electronic Corporate...
With oil as volatile as it is, I'd just look to find a nice call option that you can buy... that way your risk is fixed and you don't have to...
Yah, and how do you figure that the "integrity of the market" is increased or helped by giving one group of market participants (buyers) an...
The uptick rule does not prevent anybody from shorting in a downtrend... it just means that before you can short, you need 1 puny, measly, little...
All you're doing is regurgitating what Cramer says word for word.... not very original... and not very accurate either.
Agreed... if you're a successful trader then technically you're already making a very high rate of return on your money anyways... my guess is...
Not so sure about that... according to IB's website: "Bonds must be paid-in-full in a Cash account." And most places that do allow bonds to be...
This is probably one of the most ridiculous ideas I've ever heard of. Unless IB is letting you use your bonds as marginable collateral, you've...
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