a real disaster always comes out of the blue, except, perhaps, drought reports for grain futures
you must have submitted a market order which is a suicide in option trading. Since the topic was about softs :) I'm trading Ags, Meats, Metals,...
Calculating only buying power and initial margin req is not enough. What really matters is your "staying power" if the market moves against you....
I was trading ALL softs options such as sugar, cotton, coffee, cocoa and orange juice on TWS IB for over a year without any problem. The liquidity...
I had a quick look at it, seems to provide only equity options data. No commodities.
Even if you trade less leverage, even safe leverage, you can't be sure that under certain market conditions with some volatility spike your...
If so, stay away from TOS, IB and PFG Best ;) Could anybody provide a list of clearing firms since 2000 which were previously at...
TOS just offers a few options on futures. Here's an email from the tos support on that: "Thank you for the email. We currently only support the...
to sum it up: Only PFG best turned to be more or less suitable. As for support, I would give it a good mark. Pretty fast and responsive. But, as...
Velocity Futures sent me a reply today: "At this time we do not allow clients to sell naked options. Generally we are a futures only shop with...
I've been successfully trading short naked stock options with Thinkorswim for several years and now looking for opportunity to sell short OTM...
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