The new symbol for ER2 on IB is RUT, then select TF. The problem is that you also have to add NYBOT in your trade permissions. IB shows a $1.00 / month fee for this data. I spoke to ICE/NYBOT yesterday and they said that IB is not supposed to charge anything for the data as they provide it to IB without cost. Also, margin requirements are $3750 / contract with $3000 maintenance at all times. No 1/2 margin during normal trading hours.
I just subscribed to TF in eSignal, and it's for free....so odd indeed why IB is requesting a fee (although small). Also a sad thing, from this ER2 move from Globex to NYBOT, is that we only 2 rows of MarketDepth, instead of the 5 rows bid and 5 rows Ask on Globex.... Is this a Bug ?
jhucti - you need to check your IB trade panel. Intraday margin returned a few weeks ago for NQ, ES, YM, ER2 (before the transition) and just about everything except for oil futures.
That's not correct, ER2 was on normal 1/2 Margin for several weeks already again (same as other major Index-futures). Some not-common tickers are still on full-margin, and probably the cause why NYBOT tickers are still not back on normal RTH-margins....I guess IB will change this soon for FT (as it belongs now to the major-group).
After talking to IB, IB says that they are not actually charging the $1.00 fee for ICE/NYBOT data. It is one of those odd IB quirks that they list a minimal fee for a data feed, but don't charge the fee. The TF DOM is only 2 by 1 or 2 by 2, but the TO DOM is the full 5 by 5. Either IB or ICE/NYBOT has a bug with the TF DOM that needs to be fixed.
Thanks. I moved some of my trading to another broker so have not checked IB margin for a while. BTW, what is the IB trade panel you mentioned? You mean TWS?