It depends what you mean when you refer to small trader. Interactive brokers is best option if you have the capital. But I do not know how much...
It is amazing that US government does not in practice guarentee all public debt like is case in most other developed economies.
Giving loan to troubled bank does not necessary cost anything to british government. But probably british goverment does not all the market...
Northern Rock total balance sheet liabilities are 113 billion pounds. It would be very suprising if cost of Northern Rock takeover would exceed...
Problem is that no-one knows which equities are crap. There is no efficient bond market so correct pricing is difficult.
OffÃcial IB discussion area is pretty dead. But IB has inofficial forum which has fair sized community of posters. Elitetrader ->...
Ie. Vanguard provides low-cost ETFs.
Bundle should provide enough data for most of non-professional traders. It provides vast majority of US stock and futures data with some...
Above suggestion seems very reasonable. There are plenty of less risk-averse futures brokers than IB around. If you have leverage problems...
Many IB customers will be happy when next major crash (like Black Monday) sends many gambler friendly futures brokers to bankrupt. Automated...
With safeword platinum challenge 8 digit numeric (base 10). (99 999 999 combinations). Response is 8 digit hexadecimal (base 16) (4 294 967...
What did you want to do? You just took margin EUR loan (negative balance) and bought USD(sold EUR).
In IB currency conversions are not made automatically. You make them manually. Currency conversions are not tied to trades of securities or...
Minimum margin requirements for futures gambl .... oops ... I mean traders are still low. If you are serious trader with good risk...
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It works that way for me now, but I lost my entire config before I got it working. I did not reinstall but upgraded the clients.
This is bad news, which came after US market close. Overseas markets react to it. Aug. 10 (Bloomberg) -- Countrywide Financial Corp., the...
Addition: I also had to make new config in order to get it working.
This worked for me. 1) Upgrade all of the clients to the most recent version. 2) Check "Store settings on server" option on Login screen in...
How do you define "decent trading volume"? Over 10k/month in commissions? I think commissions are negociable if you have large enough...
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