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Interesting.......I never heard that you can trade full size S&P contracts
with IB?
----- Original Message -----
From: "marc miller" <marcmiller@xxxxxxxxx>
To: <omega-list@xxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Monday, January 12, 2004 3:06 PM
Subject: ES options data
> It has been my experience that IB lags ESignal, especially in fast
markets.
> One day IB was trading eminis at 30, ESsignal was quoting 23. They
finally
> caught up. Lucky for me I had Esignal, I was on the wrong side of it and
got
> out but got screwed. Then there is the story of when IB called up months
> after a trade and informed us that we were down some 80 s&p points on a
> couple of big s&p contracts. Made us eat US$40K. So i am a little
> jaded.....
> but I really do NOT LIKE IB and their quotes suck. Just experience. Have
a
> backup. I kinda like Refco. I also remember in case of an IB system
> breakdown, you can be on hold for 15- 30 minutes listening to a recording.
> One could get badly hurt if they were on the wrong side of the market, you
> know?
>
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