Exactly. Most traders don't consider being in the same boat with lots of traders margined to the hilt at a super low margin for futures contracts,...
Are you going to look at the Samsung S20?
Total agreement. IB was a much scarier boat to be in with the past lower margins.
Never saw anything like that. Are you sure that wasn't the shut-down time?
The M2K might not be a bad way to go with those practice runs. Less cash at risk and the movement on it is good enough during volatility to create...
One of the ironies of active trading is that you are often likely to do better if you initiate a position and then “forget” about it for a while....
Yep. You can avoid a lot of the stop outs (that take hard dollars out of your capital) with the NQ by using MNQ with minimal contracts and a very...
These are trading "cleanly" this morning at IB. The volatility today is a nice test ....
Clearly not good for scalping. Then again, I think that scalping is a counterproductive technique, in the long run, relative to even buy/hold....
MES on IB TWS is currently in test mode and unavailable to us, so that volume is misleading. Even in test mode, the spread is pretty tight - there...
thanks. Can't access on IB. Just talked to them; they're doing some testing with it ....
Quite a nice dip off of the latest trump tariff twittering tweets and the middle east flare. Too bad the new MNQ and MES contracts aren't trading...
A good chance to try the micro emini futures later, on the opening dip. [MEDIA]
The maintenance margin shows as 2848 for the IRA
Looks like the IRA margin at IB is about $2800 per contract or, 1/10th of the regular emini. Commission is about .45 per .....
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