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To: Dominick who wrote (6537)4/28/2006 12:30:40 PM
From: RockyBalboa   of 8972
 
Thats correct. (It is dollars rather than cents but the tick is that small, e.g. $0.005).

Imagine what a katrina like event can do to ones account when Natgas closed at $9.80 on Friday and reopened over $12 that Sunday night. Thats a gap of about 440 ticks...

a price deviation of $1 translates into a change in value of $2500 per contract (Size: 2500; 1/4 of the regular contract).

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To: Dominick who wrote (6539)4/28/2006 12:38:35 PM
From: RockyBalboa   of 8972
 
Currently only the small contracts "E-Miny", like QG QM QU and QH can be traded off the floor as electronic version.

I gather that standard size contracts like NG, CL etc.. go also to Globex.
By then the CME stock will likely trade at 800 or so, seems unstoppable and the CME/Globex still attracts volume and new products.

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To: RockyBalboa who wrote (6541)4/28/2006 12:48:19 PM
From: Dominick   of 8972
 
I'm just starting to trade the energy eminis. If I hold overnite
or weekend I'll hedge with options. In fact I haven't checked to see if these eminis have options.

If Globex handles these eminis I'll trade with them. I've had good luck with Globex.

dom

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From: tom pope4/29/2006 8:52:27 AM
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Am I the only one who finds the IB reporting system baffling? It takes an 8 page report to reflect a simple deposit?

I also have a problem reconciling to cash, but I assume this will be cleared up when I get the April statement. I hope.

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To: tom pope who wrote (6543)4/29/2006 4:32:48 PM
From: peter michaelson   of 8972
 
It's unbelievable. The process I have to go through to convert IB's data into something decent for Quicken is pretty laborious.

IB is not the only one though. Terra Nova reporting is about the same. Penson's is great though.

One unfortunate trend is to report each sub-transaction - thus a 1000 share order can be split into ten 100 share orders, and I get busy adding them up to make a single 1000 share order again.

You would have thought these things would improve over the years.

Is there someone who really desires that level of detail? Even if so, couldn't th edata provider make that a choice of the user.

Tom, perhaps you and I are the only ones who actually reconcile our statements any more. Everyone else just accepts what 'the man' tells them!

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To: peter michaelson who wrote (6544)4/29/2006 4:50:04 PM
From: tom pope   of 8972
 
ML is the same - each subtransaction is reported separately, and if the transactions go off at different prices you have to add manually. Schwab very helpfully totals them for daily reconciliation, but its year end transaction downloads can't be done holus bolus, but page by page - in this day and age!!

Agreed, Penson is effortless. I'm new to Fidelity, but their reporting interface seems to be very good. We'll see how they are at year end.

I have only 3 transactions total with IB, held deliberately to that number to see whether I can reconcile to the April statement.

As far as I can see, you can't get your trade history with one button push in IB. You have to go looking date by date, is this correct?

Good to see you again Peter.

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To: tom pope who wrote (6545)4/29/2006 6:12:26 PM
From: peter michaelson   of 8972
 
As far as I can see, you can't get your trade history with one button push in IB. You have to go looking date by date, is this correct?

I've not seen a better way there, to date.

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To: peter michaelson who wrote (6546)4/29/2006 8:35:12 PM
From: tom pope   of 8972
 
They should take a look at Fidelity's reports and copy them.

Their direct access to Canadian stocks is wonderful and their execution good, but I'm not sure at this stage it's worth the aggravation.

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To: peter michaelson who wrote (6546)4/30/2006 12:35:40 PM
From: tom pope   of 8972
 
Peter, I've been wondering if I'd be better off (=less confused) setting my base currency as CAD. Is your base currency the USD?

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To: tom pope who wrote (6548)4/30/2006 10:13:20 PM
From: peter michaelson   of 8972
 
yes it is

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