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  1. Anybody have experience running SMAs at IB?

    Anybody have experience running SMAs at IB? From what I can tell you can just trade an institutional master account and have the SMAs basically...
    Thread by: GlobalMacro90, Feb 8, 2019, 18 replies, in forum: Professional Trading

  2. Discussion 70% U S Tax Rate

    If I had the "problem" of getting taxed at 70% on income over 10MM that would be awesome!
    Post by: GlobalMacro90, Jan 30, 2019 in forum: Economics

  3. Profitable and consistent traders wanted! (from efinancials)

    I will also add, even if you have a strategy that "only" has a sharpe ratio of say 0.5-0.7, that strategy can still add a huge amount of value if...
    Post by: GlobalMacro90, Jan 2, 2019 in forum: Trading

  4. Profitable and consistent traders wanted! (from efinancials)

    Maybe the 1.5 Sharpe is not a hard rule? Makes you think why did they put it on there in the first place though. I agree about the Sharpe ratios...
    Post by: GlobalMacro90, Jan 2, 2019 in forum: Trading

  5. Data sources

    I am a big fan of Y Charts. Not free but not super expensive like Bloomberg
    Post by: GlobalMacro90, Dec 28, 2018 in forum: Strategy Building

  6. Profitable and consistent traders wanted! (from efinancials)

    Fair enough, even though I bet just daily account values are sufficient. Its more about everybody's paranoia regarding trading secrets. Its my...
    Post by: GlobalMacro90, Dec 27, 2018 in forum: Trading

  7. Profitable and consistent traders wanted! (from efinancials)

    It doesnt say "give all your trades" . It says show the track record (probably in the form of daily returns). Any serious PM job would ask the...
    Post by: GlobalMacro90, Dec 27, 2018 in forum: Trading

  8. Why doesn't everybody just short VXX?

    Thanks for this report, it was an interesting read (I just read the short vol part). Certainly would have to keep a short position in VXX as a...
    Post by: GlobalMacro90, Sep 25, 2018 in forum: Trading

  9. Why doesn't everybody just short VXX?

    I totally understand that this can rip in your face >100% as I mentioned. Even with that risk, if you keep you position small/manageable...
    Post by: GlobalMacro90, Sep 25, 2018 in forum: Trading

  10. Why doesn't everybody just short VXX?

    I'd love to hear some other trader's opinions on this. VXX, Barclays ETN that tracks the first 2 VIX futures contracts, is down something like...
    Thread by: GlobalMacro90, Sep 25, 2018, 40 replies, in forum: Trading

  11. IB Short Fee Calculation

    Right, gotcha. Appreciate the help!
    Post by: GlobalMacro90, Sep 24, 2018 in forum: Interactive Brokers

  12. IB Short Fee Calculation

    Gotcha thanks for the help. So lets say in this example I short $10,000 worth of a security. I would basically owe the lender (0.03/360)*10,000...
    Post by: GlobalMacro90, Sep 24, 2018 in forum: Interactive Brokers

  13. IB Short Fee Calculation

    Making sure I am thinking about this correctly. On IB's SLB tool, I see a security with a fee rate of 3.0% and a rebate rate of -1.0%. Since the...
    Thread by: GlobalMacro90, Sep 23, 2018, 6 replies, in forum: Interactive Brokers

  14. Question regarding margin interest calculation

    Yea thats what I figured, thanks for the help.
    Post by: GlobalMacro90, Sep 16, 2018 in forum: Trading

  15. Question regarding margin interest calculation

    Hey guys quick question regarding margin interest calculation. Thanks in advance. If I had say $100,000 in equity and bought $200,000 worth of...
    Thread by: GlobalMacro90, Sep 16, 2018, 4 replies, in forum: Trading

  16. Commodity ETF

    Thank you for this information.
    Post by: GlobalMacro90, Sep 4, 2018 in forum: ETFs

  17. Commodity ETF

    Thank you very much for the detailed response, as this is not my area of expertise it is very much appreciated. Would you mind expanding on why...
    Post by: GlobalMacro90, Sep 4, 2018 in forum: ETFs

  18. Commodity ETF

    Any good general commodity ETFs (mostly passive exposure) you guys like? I know the asset class in general has been terrible the last 10 years,...
    Thread by: GlobalMacro90, Sep 3, 2018, 7 replies, in forum: ETFs

  19. US Treasury yield curve rate data PRIOR to 1990

    Hey man I would check out the FRED website (St Louis Fed) See link below https://fred.stlouisfed.org/categories/115 If you know how to write...
    Post by: GlobalMacro90, Aug 7, 2018 in forum: Data Sets and Feeds

  20. Historical Monthly Data for large sample

    You can get that from Yahoo Finance. Quandl as well
    Post by: GlobalMacro90, Jul 17, 2018 in forum: Data Sets and Feeds
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