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To: terry101 who wrote (11852)	2/9/2008 8:43:14 AM
From: Dr. Voodoo	of 12410

Terry, Patrick is right, for grains etc there are people who specialize. e.g. Commodities/futures broker like MFG. mfglobaldirect.com I think Fidelity has futures, but may be in a different part of their system from the online brokerage used to trade stocks. Could be wrong, oughta check. Issue is fills, as my last trade of XDN calls was routed through Interactive brokers, which took about 30 mins... Whereas, on my Interactive brokers account the exact trade took... 3 seconds. Dunno if they have an emini platform. Nemer(a.k.a. "beans") might be able to recco a good one. In terms of online brokers, they're all about the same. The big issue is what your trading model is like. Do you need streaming charts or can you swing trade off of dailies? Would you pay a guy(I think nemer said he does this....)to keep your fat out of the fryer if a trade goes the wrong way? For commodity futures like grains I would spend days out of the market because of limits. I haven't traded grains in a while i don't know if the rules have changed much. But I wouldn't touch those with a 10 foot pole, now that I know I can hop in and out with the emini in a nanosecond. Cheers, V

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