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Quite right.
At the moment I am halfway between America and Australia.
When I am in America I have to put up with exchange rate moves (on my
account), Virgin Island bank accounts, no direct access to my broker
(midnight Aus time phone call) etc i.e. that is via my current broker
not IB.
If I come to America I get IB/AB as a trading platform, plus the
benefit of all the work that has been done with IB/AT, plus a large
range of liquid options, a sophisticated liquid market etc (along
with midnight trading and exchange rate moves).
If I stay in Aus I get CFD's (including some international exposure),
limited options, futures (including some international exposure), no
exchange rate issues and no AB trading platform (except QuoteTracker
to broker - where available?).
Tough choice.
brian_z
--- In amibroker@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, "cstrader" <cstrader232@xxx> wrote:
>
> Yes, completely silly as we can trade FUTURES contracts at many
brokerages
> with only $2K. What the heck are they thinking?
>
>
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Yuki Taga" <yukitaga@xxx>
> To: "Tomasz Janeczko" <amibroker@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Sent: Wednesday, March 12, 2008 9:14 PM
> Subject: Re: [amibroker] Re: Interactive Brokers plugin policy
change
>
>
> > Hi Tomasz,
> >
> > TJ> US securities regulations require at least USD 25,000 (or USD
> > equivalent) in equity to day trade.
> >
> > I always thought this was a silly little "looks like we are
> > protecting the little guys" kind of law.
> >
> > So, somebody without very much cash is prohibited from repeatedly
> > wagering (and let's assume losing) an amount of cash that is, by
most
> > measures, rather inconsequential. But somebody with poor trading
> > skills and an amount of cash that is a bit more meaningful is
free to
> > squander their larger pile, which may be just as large a
percentage
> > of their net worth as is the case with the smaller guy -- until
they
> > have a very little egg left, which they are then "protected" from
> > day-trading away. Such scratch-my-head public policy.
> >
> > Las Vegas gives worse odds than the equity market, but I don't
think
> > anyone is required to put up 25 K to "day-trade" Blackjack. ^_^
> >
> > Yuki (who agrees in principle that 25 K is not enough to attempt
> > making a living in the market -- or at Las Vegas)
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
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> >
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