Recent content by Toothyfish

Wow! Very impressive and generous of you to share Whacky. Havent had time to look in detail but very impressed.

Inspired by your stories I would like to share my journey too. I was drawn into trading during the tech boom as a 20yr old who had a life savings of $10g. I had tripled the account and blew it during the tech crash. This was pray and hope trading. I was now hooked to trading and vowed to get my...

Hi smargin, 1.) IB overnight margin for SPI futures contracts can be in excess of $10000, so yes it would kill you. 2.) Yes. You pay overnight interest on margin 3.) IB minute charts for SPI does frequently contain errors. Their USA data is great but for some reason OZ data is not reliable. 4.)...

Thanks for clearing it up

Hi, IB is ceasing margin lending to it's Australian clients. Does anyone know why? Is it an Australian policy that has made this change or is it to do with the broker's operations?

Re: SPI ,Ninja Trader configuration problems (willing to pay for assistance) Yes, Tom Myers is away for 1 week so has directed me to support. Doesn't look like they collect the night data, he did say. will let you know of outcome.

Re: SPI ,Ninja Trader configuration problems (willing to pay for assistance) Hi All, just paid $750 and download SPI future data from Tick data. It only has the day session 9:50am til 4:30pm. I was looking for the 24 hour session combined. ie Day and Night. So I am $750 poorer and very...

Just got off my backside. I assume the ES - Globex in "US Securities and Commodities Bundle Non-professional - Level I Includes all Stock, Options and Futures markets ."

Sorry for my ignorance but I can't get the data stream through Ib Brokers. I can locate it in my symbols but cannot get data. Which Exchange Data feed do I need to subscribe to? is it the CBOE or CME Floor? I can't see any Globex.

Thankyou TH.

Hi, Does anyone know the symbol for the SP500 or eminis on IB brokers? and in which exchange? Many thanks

If you post the questions up, we can help you along.

From what I understand. If you are long CFDs you are not entitled to imputation (franking) credits of the dividends If you are short CFDs you will be required to pay the value of the divident plus the value of the imputation (franking) credits Yes, a bit unfair for the trader

Thanks for the responses Sorry for hijacking this thread. Trading, I just made a little automated strategy on the XJO and want to test it out. Just a play account and Options obviously won't be suitable.

Beautiful! Thanks Cutz! :worship: Tried to contact IB but their MSG Site is down for maintenance.... during Market hours. Not good form. Anyway.