IndexSwing- i trade primarily futures as well and I'm not a programmer (kinda more like a non-engineering quant if there is such a thing) but...
i haven't looked at those, but did you consider weekend time decay?
calculate the the IV yourself and back into the interest rate used in the IV on your screen. It's the likely culprit if you feel the IV you see...
The exchanges employ market makers to maintain liquidity in alot of options. Emini options have decent markets overnight, not great. Here's a...
Hi PocketChange- Did you create that options layout or is it canned from somewhere? I want to develop more options functionality for myself and...
You also have to like the exchanges with all this activity. CME, ICE, NYX, NDAQ are doing well.
Transports should benefit. Delivery companies should. FDX is down worse than the general market. I"m writing $65 puts.
I don't think we'll see CME and ICE doing any business together anytime soon. Something has to done to boost the electricity markets and I would...
I'll tell ya what, you gotta hand it to CME and Globex. No problems with their matching engines throughout this freakish high spike in trading...
I dont think a restart is necessary at least for tt. There was a big debate about this on their user forum last year....
they're both a tough trade. futures requires more discipline and that accounts for the higher failure rate.
I agree with Surdo. the tax advantage to futures make a big difference. you also have much better leverage in futures than stocks. this can be...
You can trade the old ER2 contract on TT and I wish more people would. This contract has dried up to hell. I don't think enough people have...
Options market makers can't hedge themselves by shorting stocks. They can't make markets.
They don't exist any longer and went bankrupt. I don't know how LEH can rally out of this.. I'm curious about their front end, TradePipe. Anyone...
was it competitive? did it have a spreading application? automated trading capabilities? I was sniffing around for a thin client a few years...
I've heard from some friends griping that TradePipe (Lehmans front end for futures trading) is going away. I never used TradePipe...what was so...
Single stock futures suffer in liquidity because Wall Street has refused to promote SSF's. The IB's have made big $$ charging usurous interest...
Whoops. I was incorrect. You cannot short SSF's (which is complete BS).
Yes. You may short SSF's. As further clarification regarding the SECâs Emergency Order restricting short sales, please note that there are...
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