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if you'd like to trade American Eagle Outfitters, Apartments or
Desert Mountain West futures for just any expiry for the next year
then TS 8.3 is your platform. (There must be 1000 uninteresting
futures contracts listed.) However, if you'd like to trade Dax, Cac,
Ftse, Bund or Bobl futures that have VOLUME or others mentioned below
online then forget it. Do these companies pay TRAD to list? Or maybe
O'Brien gets a bung from the Exchanges, perhaps thats why you cant
trade European contracts online - TRAD will still flog you the
European data though.
I heard TS described recently as a 'toy' -
Wednesday, November 14, 2007, 5:09:30 PM, you wrote:
>>And thus the question:
>>What can I do on an say "IB" (??), that TS
>>can't do?
MJ> I looked at the Tradestation Securities website to find
MJ> out whether they allow customers to trade overseas futures
MJ> contracts. Not surprisingly, the answer is "some but
MJ> not all." Here is a partial list of the futures contracts
MJ> missing from Tradestation's commission schedules on their
MJ> website and presumably, not tradeable through their
MJ> platform. I suspect, but don't know for certain, that
MJ> these ARE tradeable through Interactive Brokers.
MJ> 1. All currency cross-rates @ FINEX (EJ, RZ, GB, SS, etc)
MJ> 2. Brent Crude Oil @ ICE
MJ> 3. Dow Jones EuroSTOXX @ Eurex
MJ> 4. Dow Jones STOXX-50 @ Eurex
MJ> 5. Australian Share Price Index 200 @ SFE
MJ> 6. New Zealand 90 day Bank Bills @ SFE
MJ> 7. Canadian Bankers Acceptances @ Montreal
MJ> 8. All industrial metals @ LME (Aluminum, Lead, Zinc, Tin, etc)
MJ> 9. All futures contracts @ SAFEX/JSE (FTSE-Top40, White Maize, etc)
MJ> 10. EOE Index @ Euronext Amsterdam
MJ> I suppose they can be forgiven for not having the cross-rates
MJ> since the only decent way to trade these is via EFP. But all
MJ> the others are standard, no-weirdness products that trade
MJ> with good volume, every day.
MJ> Mark Johnson
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