Thanks Arnie. I'd forgotten about those. TIPS is a little light in the volume, and doesn't have weekly options, but TLT might not be a bad...
I have an IRA portfolio consisting of mostly ETF (IWM, GDX, EEM, IYR, UNG). I'd like to hear any suggestions people have on strategies to hedge...
Just out of curiosity, do you have any actual evidence to back up the various claims you have made?
Why not post a snapshot of your account balance and trades and then tell everyone to get bent with a cheese grater?
:confused: So you've been averaging about 30% a year in a monstrously liquid market and you're going to switch out to something new?
Can you beat 3 trades in about 4 days? That was accomplished just last week on this very website. That was futures and options, so "vive la...
1) Does your trading platform provide a ".log" file for activity? 2) Does your platform provide a way to see all orders placed whether they were...
I'd suggest IYR because it is: 1) optionable, 2) liquid in both the underlying and options, and 3) non-leveraged.
I'm in the US, so I have no knowledge of their international requirements. I'm pretty sure there are international users, though. You'd have to...
Any reason you chose their API over IB? The IB API has been around for years: 1) Online documentation is pretty usable. 2) Sample code is...
Do you mean you are really good at predicting reversals in AAPL or in general? If you can do it generally, why not switch to futures? Even the...
Doesn't B increase your exposure to both theta and volatility?
Just to clarify...the $39 is ONLY if you want to actually generate trades or place live trades on the chart? As long as you're not doing that, you...
You hit the bid and removed liquidity = fee from ECN. He sold the ask and added liquidity = possible rebate from ECN.
The SpreadTrader tab allows you to create all the standard options profiles, so no need to generate them manually (i.e: OptionTrader tab).
You are reading a journal entitled: "The battle for Survival", which follows on the heels of the journal entitled: "Rebuilding my battered...
Why not just log on to the account management tool, open a chat with the customer service, and ask them directly?
Pinged IB yesterday and the guy said he called CBOE and there are currently no options on VXST.
Man, I don't know...I just took a look at the website and when I read garbage like: "...resulting in extreme, maximum profit with virtually zero...
The old version had the complain button on each users message posting so we could quickly report those spammers easily. I don't see it in this...
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