Has anyone tracked the action alert portfolio performance - I assume since it is a real $ account then tracking the account level should be easy?...
- slightly off topic when did options market-making start to die? - most people these days think about getting into a hedge fund rather than...
good point, and the equity/corporate debt markets are linked in this way however, it is not a perfect link/arbitrage by any means - eg GM last...
great story - more more more please! I love hearing about the early days of things - in this case, electronic trading...
hmm... never traded futures electronically before, but lots of stocks... that price ladder looks confusing. I'll take my old Watcher L2...
this is the CDX Hvol NA series 3 (5-year) one of the biggest indices for higher volatility investment grade credit spreads (over LIBOR, not...
OK, so is the "price ladder" so awesome that everyone wants to use it? Are there successful futures traders out there using something *other*...
I work at a bank and my group uses CDS all the time. I have Bloomberg & Mark-It Partners (institutional information).
I have been following this TT thing a bit but must confess, never used any related software so I can't figure out what their problem is. Can...
I think the nature of the CDS market is such that the futures will lead the CDS, rather than the other way around. At the very least, it would be...
brings to mind the old expression "tis better to have loved & lost, than never loved at all" to adapt to trading: "tis better to have made X...
My wife has always made an effort to understand the financial world even though it's not her "thing". I really appreciate that. Personally,...
But that is speculative trading, and while I agree there is more opportunity, it is hard to teach somebody to do it. Just ask all the hedge...
thanks - one thing I have wondered about is how big an account would be needed to get ICE access (eg a hedge fund)... $5 million? $10 million?...
sounds like you guys are really plugged in to what happens in the OTC energy markets... but maybe you can enlighten me (who is less...
Thought I would post my setup... To prevent people from saying "that's not real, you're not really using that" (as unfortunately happened to...
*if* you could get a fill the moment the trading range was violated, then the high IV in the options could be "arbitraged" in a sense however,...
Good to hear & looking forward to that. Thx
Wondering if someone from IB can answer this... the IPE now trades their petroleum products (eg Brent Crude Oil) during business hours...
I've made my way through most of this thread... congrats to all the folks who have made it work successfully. You must actually find it...
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