This issue needs to be clarified... All I know is that increasing margin under duress can't be good for those markets. Maybe this will be...
CME has just notified all that Initial/Maintenance ratio now equals 1.0. This strikes me as a significant change to say the least. Margin...
I've looked into a few plans and every one of them only allows one transaction in a year. I'd like to have the flexibility of being able to...
I did indeed have to hedge around many of my ES puts as they were ITM with the market tanking. As I traded around it, I kept it small in size....
On a day like today... 15 years ago, I would have been completely wiped out. 10 years ago, I would have given up months if not years worth...
Here we are at SP 1270 and 7% off the highs. Who are buying all these equity puts? the PCR is through the roof here. Several sentiment gauges...
How can you tell if a system is profitable in the long run if it is being tweaked so often? ie. You may have had a very profitable system in...
I haven't tracked actual bullion spot prices vs futures. How did they correlate over the past year? Did the futures have a premium over...
Picking a bottom can be just as difficult as picking a top. A lot of other factors at play here, not just margin requirements. The dollar...
Some huge offers coming across around 41.80, similar to the huge bids that were taking place at 49.6 in the middle of the night. Looks like...
"There is no Holy Grail- but this is close..." http://gibbonstrading.com/trading.htm
If SI goes negative, that would be one ugly candlestick. If long, I'd notice that much of the pressure the last few days was a result of...
Huge bids up there at 49.6+ after that gigantic spike has "give up" written all over it. This spike has to have taken out a lot of the...
What are the cons or limitations of using Interactive Brokers that you are wanting to switch?
Campaigning - Let the public think you are on their side and against high oil prices. Point the finger at evil speculators and traders. Everyone...
If you are referring to the account in which one trades futures, it is a margin account. You cannot trade futures in a cash account. If you...
"I know that futures in cash accounts do not get intraday margins. " "There are only cash accunts..." Where are you folks getting this...
Does anyone use TWS on the Mac? Is the TWS for the Mac identical to the Windows version? Are the system settings from a Windows TWS that...
Those charts and statistics do not prove causation, and that QE2 "worked." If only we could do controlled experiments in Econ as we do in drug...
Anyone know if the XOOM can run the web app (java) version of IB's TWS?
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