The OP’s question is valid because of the retarded way IB margins vertical spreads. Even though his max risk is $50 IB marks to the bid/ask on the...
The margin requirement for vertical spreads is totally nonsensical at IB. If I have a bull put spread on ES at Sell 10 Puts 2700 Buy 10 Put 2650...
IB has a fairly large PB service now. Any legitimate fund or major trader in the energy space (eg Bone) uses webICE (or its replacement once it...
How is living in Madrid, Spain useful at all for minimizing taxes on trading profit? Spain's taxman is almost as bad as France's and the Beckham...
Eh not everyone on ET is a retail trader. Plus it used to be free so maybe someone found it to be worth the nut they want to charge now.
Anyone here use Genscape for Phys Natural Gas? Specifically the map product NatGasRT?
Well... other than not being able to print my goddamn confirms out not much has changed. Though I don't recall the bal day closing on Friday at...
Yes, we use all the voice brokers as well as energy match, but I'm talking about the intramonth swaps
Oh come on, no one is going to voice broker a bal day. I could see what you're saying for a monthly but intramonth?
Sure, I wouldn't recommend it to someone not familiar with the market, but if Joe Schmoe wants to try his hand at power and hand over his money,...
So for example for G/WH unless I'm watching it every second of every day, because it's so thinly traded I have no idea if there was even a bid or...
PJM WH Bal-Day NYISO G DA next day/PJM WH RT next day etc...
If they do this right, and make the power futures just like any other product on ICE Futures US, liquidity and volumes should increase drastically...
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