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Strategies & Market Trends : The Epic American Credit and Bond Bubble Laboratory
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To: Kailash who wrote (46630)12/4/2005 9:14:59 PM
From: mishedlo  Read Replies (1) of 110194
 
IB has the cheapest future prices anywhere.
$2.50 each way.
Gold silver currencies, anything.
But....
no grains.
Option prices on equities, best prices around.

Two gotchas to be aware of.
IB is not 24 x 7.
If you want to trade currencies (or anything else) at midnight you are out of luck.
They are down from about 10:00PM central until 2:00AM central (3:00?)

But as I said, within constraints it is hard to do better.
The other constraint is no OTC stocks and a final one is that IB is really low on 100 shares lots of equities ($1 each way) and even cheaper after 500 shares, but if you are trading penny stocks in size a flat fee is better.

If you can tolerate those limits and Use IB for what it is good for, I highly recommend IB.

For futures outside those restrictions I like Alaron but there may be others to consider in that arena.

Mish
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