Hi Noah,

given the fact that you use an email address of http://smartmediacorp.com, a
company that "helps companies keep their products and messages in tune with
the fast-changing expectations of their most important audiences: customers,
prospects, journalists, and influential bloggers" (ibidem), I wonder if
there is a link between you and the advertising campaign that IB pushed out
pretty precisely 22 hours ago, where they said:
"*IB Student Trading Lab*
The IB Student Trading Lab provides a financial education partnership
between IB and an instructor, enabling educators to use IB's PaperTrader
account free of charge in their financial, computer science, business and
other applicable classes. Students register for a paper account and can
trade forex and US stocks, options, futures, futures options, and bonds in a
safe, simulated account using real time-market data.

This program is open to all college and high school educators and their
students worldwide. If you know of anyone who might be interested, please
encourage them to visit the IB Student Trading Lab
<http://www.interactivebrokers.com/en/p.php?f=ibStudentTradingLab>pages."

Well, in any case, there is your answer.

Best regards,
Ulrich




On Sat, Oct 16, 2010 at 7:35 PM, Noah Silverman <noah@smartmediacorp.com>wrote:

>  Hi,
>
> I'm taking a graduate level course on derivatives and options.  As we're
> learning more about the subject, I'd love to start modeling some things in R
> and trying out some ideas.
>
> Are there any reliable (and hopefully affordable on a student's budget)
> data feeds for financial data - mainly options in the US markets?  I've seen
> Interactive Brokers, and it looks great, but they have a $10K minimum in
> order to open an account.
>
> Thanks!
>
> -N
>
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