Me too. I thought European banking/financial system was in better shape than that of US. Last week, EU economy commissioner Joaquin Almunia...
According to CBOE: Russell 2000 (RLS): 771.41
No. Index futures are regulated by CFTC, not SEC. Thank God !!:p Look at the bright side. It'll provide a great incentive to learn...
From the web site of WSJ: Breaking News: The Fed is considering offering a secured bridge loan to AIG, and under the proposed rescue plan,...
Although the bank has reduced its leverage, or debt relative to assets, it still has about $600 billion of assets supported by some $30 billion of...
Senior government officials, eg. Bernanke, got copies of the job reports about three hours ago. However, they are NOT allowed to leak the info.
This is really bad. A monthly return of negative 24.28% can easily translated to a maximum draw-down of almost 50% in January 2008. :eek:...
I think this is true for a Regular T Margin account. For a Portfolio Margin account, the overnight margin requirement should be much lower.
Unfortunately, Portfolio Margining does not talk to SPAN. Unless SEC and CFTC adopt a single margining system for securities, commodities and...
For each underlying instrument (each combined commodity) in which a portfolio has positions, SPAN will add up the Scanning Risk Charges, the...
I am not sure about your question. I ***THINK*** you are referring to the multipliers: ES options (50) ER2 options (100) NQ options (20)...
The above example involves ES Call and ER2 Put, not straddles or strangles.
Hi, Let me give you an example: If I sell 10 contracts of ES Call ( margin requirement $10,000 ), and then sell 10 contracts of ER2 Put (...
Hi, Has anyone been trading options on index futures via ThinkorSwim ? Any good or bad experience to share ? I noticed that SPAN has not...
This will be the 1,000th post of this thread. Die, thread, die !!! :p
Some sprinters can finish a 100-meter race under 10 seconds. Some tennis players can return serves over 125 mph at Wimbledon. Can everyone on...
Just received an E-mail from ThinkOrSwim: They will launch options on futures tomorrow, and plan to turn them on for trading mid to late next...
I received an E-mail from them on Friday: The schedule has been pushed back for one week. Since they have not decided on the commissions, I won't...
I heard that ThinkOrSwim would offer options on futures next week. Any rumor or update about this ? :D Hopefully, there won't be any delay.:eek:
Same here. No stocks, futures or options real-time quotes from TWS. However, WebTrader seems to be working.
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