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Strategies & Market Trends : Ask DrBob -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: jjames69 who wrote (67996)	10/11/2002 4:27:58 PM
From: herry iball	Respond to of 100058

With regards to trading options (or trading in general), I would say go with Interactive Brokers. interactivebrokers.com I have two IRA accounts there (rolled over from other organizations), which I trade exclusively with stock and index options. The reason I can 'scalp' options throughout the day is the low commission: 1 dollar per contract. Period. Today I traded 120 QQQ puts for a dime (10 bucks) profit, and commissions were 240 bucks. I also use IB for my Futures Account and another account for trading stocks (where again, I just trade options). I have all four java programs running on 1 machine and have never had any problems with resources. They're well worth a look.