Today I've exited the spread in Soybean Meal/Oil which I entered on April 25th. Bought 2 Aug ZL Soybean Oil, Sold 2 Aug ZM Soybean Meal @ 2.157...
I've had a Crude Oil spread (Dec/Jun08) lined up - with entry planned for the beginning of this week. I've been watching it a few weeks in...
Glad you got out in time of the RB/HO spread - good call! Looking at the current NG Aug/Oct I see a downtrend that may be flattening - I...
Closed the disastrous Soybean Meal spread: Bought 1 Mar 08, Sold 1 Aug ZM Soybean Meal @ -14.50 - CLOSED - LOSS -5.50 which is 550 usd. This...
Added to the May08/Sep Wheat trade today: Bought 1 May 08, Sold 1 Sep ZW Wheat @ 5 This brings me to 2 contracts at an average of 6 1/2. I...
Bought 1 May 08, Sold 1 Sep ZW Wheat @ 8 This spread I've been watching for a few days, and I started bidding with limit-orders when it was...
Bought 3 Mar 08 ZS, Bought 3 Aug ZS Soybeans @ -49 - CLOSED - LOSS 12 3/4 which is 1.913 usd. In the beginning this spread looked like it was...
Today I've closed both spreads in Oats/Corn as I've found that they've been well within expected profit for a few days, and the spread topped out...
Good to hear that MAN is working for you - how are the fills? Do you get better fills because your company is a big(ger) client? I've never done...
IB uses the same SPAN margin requirements as the exchanges require, so (for spreads) you have to look it up on the exchange websites - find the...
Wow, sorry to hear about your terrible experience with Man - definitely good reasons to stay away from them. They seem to be such a big and...
I definitely prefer entering with limit-orders electronically, as long as the contracts are somewhat active the pros outweigh the cons. But if...
Hope the RB/HO spread works out, I had to skip several energy-spreads because of account size and correlation. The swift exit in RB yesterday...
I left an order in, and to my surprise I got filled afterhours today: Bought 1 Dec, Sold 1 Aug RB Unleaded Gasoline @ 0.3150 - CLOSED - PROFIT...
I've added yet another contract to the GE-spread: Long 1 Mar 08 GE Eurodollars, Short 1 Sep 07 GE Eurodollars @ 0.075 The position size is...
Today is another outstanding day with Corn continuing down and energies ticking the right way - current open profits are well over 11k usd. I'm...
Although I'm sticking with my initial plan, I feel like this is working out and I've decided to put some more effort into researching seasonal...
Here is a recap of both open and closed trades, with open trades as of their last traded price just about now (after the close): Closed trades...
Today I entered into a reverse of the RB spread I held from end of May until last week: Bought 1 Aug 07, Sold 1 Dec 07 RB Unleaded Gasoline @...
I'm stooping so low as to bump my own thread - anyone care to comment on the WTI calendar spreads shrinking steadily? Is this connected to lack of...
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