If you happen to want to trade the very few stock futures with the very few expirations that have a bid/ask quoted. On IB it appears that there is...
Why would you pick any of them? Put call parity and the ability to short stocks and treasuries means that you can produce the same exposure with a...
You're right, I can't see a way to a tradable product unless a bank can figure out a way to offer an ETN that they can afford to support by...
They've essentially got several mechanisms that are supposed to arbitrage away differences between the NAV and the traded price, plus a daily...
I was in the military for 20 years, generally worked 80 hour weeks with no days off on deployment and at least 50 hour weeks when at home station,...
There is no "price" to mine gold. There are mines that are profitable at anything above $800, some profitable above $1100, and some profitable...
I was afraid of that. Anyone know of a way for a retail trader to trade OTC ($100K level)?
Anyone know a retail trading platform that allows you to trade these daily options now?
You may be confused with the prohibition on companies not regulated in the US from taking U.S. customers?
You know I subscribe to the no a-hole rule, so sorry, life's just to short and I'm moving on to happily enjoying my sub-millions and the rest of...
Let me provide an example to make this crystal clear. As you can see on the attached this is a 5 point SPX spread with the NBBO of 1.30/2.20. I...
Some of you need to get a grip. "if usa goes under", what does that even mean? If it means the US disappeared, the US economy somehow had a...
If we're getting paranoid here I'd say the people posting "what are you worried about, just switch brokers if you don't like it" would be the...
The issue is that sometimes IB holds a limit order on their server without you asking them to and without giving you an option to get it to the...
I do, although it was painful to leave all the code I wrote for their API behind. To me this is the difference between preference and illegal...
First, to those who don't see the problem here, the OP put a limit in inside the current spread and it doesn't show up for the rest of the world...
IB routinely liquidates spreads because the best bid/ask is outside the intrinsic value of the spread, i.e. you can by definition only lose $500...
Well said on the Canadian Dollar! Think spreads with a wide spread and you're taking both sides of the exact same trade.
If you're taking both sides of the same trade it's not hard to trade inefficiently in a way that makes one leg consistently more likely to lose...
I respectfully disagree about the IRS not caring when they get their money. They may be the government, but they do get the concept of net present...
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