I am sorry for I have been trading with my local brokers with a broker which would tell me everything about it (also my English is not very well I guessed). actually, in my country there is just several local brokers which we can count on, not to mention every broker is 10 pips to 20 pips spreads and US$30 to 50 commissions ! So with my humble, would you please tell me ? Thank You !
If your English is not good enough to understand IB's site, you should stick with your local broker in a language you know.
I have found the Margin and Commissions, but really I thought that the spreads is not stated in the website, for I have opened the contract spesification, but I have only found another informations. I guessed I'll call them, if you suggest me to stay with my local broker. Thanks, and good luck for all of us.
Just noticed this thread. After reading through it I'm not sure what if any solution you came up with. There is a an Index Futures chat room right here on ET. Although originally intended for US equity indexes as far as I know it not used much if any during Asian hours. If your still looking for a chat room no reason I know of why you couldn't use it. http://www.elitetrader.com/ch/
I trade JGB futures on the TSE and the ATR (10 day) is .43 (430,000 yen). It rarely falls below .25. Hope this helps.
I am in contact with the Financialchat network (www.financialchat.com), an IRC live chat community. I will keep you updated on their reply. They advertise a free setup and running of new chats on their servers. Hope we can get something started asap because there will be a number of traders during Asian market hours who want to take things to the next step from the currently delayed blog model to live chat.