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E-Mini Pit
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9938Hey Kelly, welcome to the E-Mini Pit! I see this was your first post on SI in ovthe-phoenix-2/25/2003
9937Thanks, Dan, for the reminder on stop order options. I had sorta forgotten aboutthe-phoenix-2/25/2003
9936Bond futures are much too esoteric for me. Got my hands full with stocks. But David Lind-2/24/2003
9935I'd suggest coming 'out of the closet' and trade bond futures. :)Londo-2/24/2003
9934No they are very different. Minimums are quite small compared to 25K if you are mappingworld-2/23/2003
9933Question about Day trading the futures.... Are the day trading rules the same fshoreco-2/23/2003
9932TRADER SEEKS TRADER Experienced position trader with highly profitable, robust David Lind-2/21/2003
9931I use them for options, but never trading... Seems like you are paying a premi Jack of All Trades-2/20/2003
9930Dan, Interesting. It sounds as if IB has just gone ahead and offered a sort ofRamus-2/20/2003
9929Jeff, Yes, been with MyTrack for 4 or 5 years now. Yes, they charge $14/round Ramus-2/20/2003
9928I've been trading e-minis for about three weeks now, and finally getting theKelly-2/20/2003
9927Margin for futures is different than for equities, as you and others have noted.Dan Duchardt-2/20/2003
9926OK, but my question was to Walt regarding MyTracks futures commish vs IB. I traJack of All Trades-2/20/2003
9925The term "margin" means something entirely different in stocks then itBrandon-2/20/2003
9924Walt, are you using myTrack, I thgouth they were charging like $7/side/contract?Jack of All Trades-2/20/2003
9923Dan, All of this talk about futures margins vs equity margins has always made mRamus-2/19/2003
9922<<<Not really. You need $2000 to open a position. Once you have it, youmappingworld-2/19/2003
9921Rightie. But anyone who would like to receive paper statements by regular mail imappingworld-2/19/2003
9920<I>If your broker is IB and you trade 1 NQ future, you need a minimum of 2Dan Duchardt-2/19/2003
9919<I>All statements are by email</I> You will soon have to configure Dan Duchardt-2/19/2003
9918IB now gives you some choices regarding the handling of stops. Be sure to checkDan Duchardt-2/19/2003
9917I will be there for a day or two starting Saturday.Dan Duchardt-2/19/2003
9916David, If you give me your email address via PM I can send you data from QChartJack of All Trades-2/19/2003
9915grainmarketresearch.com - costs $ grainmarketresearch.com is the link for the inAtin-2/19/2003
9914DATA Source?? I'm looking for historical intraday data for SPY that I can iDavid Lind-2/19/2003
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