Now IBsoft: Please fix the implied cash problem. Why would you want me to pay someone 50k a year for a system when I can be paying you that or...
Yeh, been punting vol for the last 10 years on the buy and sell side across the world. I also think IB is not too bad. It's the only one around...
Not a lot of risk free ways to make money anymore in options. Even the market makers are basically taking short term vol bets these days. Trading...
Actually part of my day job was prop trading and supervising a small mkt making operation. We used orc liquidator and still had a hard time...
You need to re-read Sheldon Natenberg. All these simple arbitrages disappeared in the 90's or maybe the 80's....
Building a spreadsheet to watch the market/vol surface is fairly simple. The problem is to be able to see the quotes and fire off the orders in...
For example: 1) If I trade any index options against futures hedge, TWS can not price options off implied cash (future-basis). So the implied...
I am not a market maker, mostly just click and trade. TWS volatility trader is useless. Why would you place volatility orders when you can not...
Orc trader is that much now? It was 2 or 3k when i was using it a few years ago. I just need a front end derivatives app that plugs into IB and...
Thanks. But I am trying to stay with IB. Just wondering if anyone has an off the shelf solution, something similar to Orc trader etc.
Does anyone use TWS for trading and managing options positions? It is so antiquated. There's no way to feed a live rate curve or div curve. Can...
Is there a way to click trade on the IBIS watch list? How do I enable it if it's possible? Also is there a search function for the streaming news?
There aren't many english brokers here. You are better off using IB. IB is not the greatest but it is one of the cheapest and has the most market...
If you want to be a one pony trick. Haha. No one's making money in kospi fut/options anymore. That market is gone years ago. Too many competitors....
Because I trade asia markets in my day job. But I would much prefer to trade the US markets. Spreads are tighter, costs are lower, and there's a...
sure, from time to time. When I am not too busy. The hours are not great. 11:30 to early morning these days. How about urself?
a lot of guys are using ORC liquidators. The original ORC programming team actually split off into their own market making firm. So if you think...
you can also try GL trade, they may have this feature. Is ORC that expensive now? I used to pay 2k a month for the ORC trader. I don't think they...
microhedge, gl trade has an options front end as well. Got a demo once. Forgot the name. Cube something.
Is the Excel DDE version of API reliable? Or should I go with Java or c++?
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