Recent Content by Nasdaq5048

  1. ideas for cash reserves

    Treasury bills
    Post by: Nasdaq5048, May 5, 2009 in forum: Retail Brokers

  2. S&P backwardation

    How can it be the S&P/Nasdaq June contract is trading at a discount to the Mar? Why do you actually get paid to go long stock? Even if interest...
    Thread by: Nasdaq5048, Mar 10, 2009, 2 replies, in forum: Index Futures

  3. Vxx Vxz

    Buy or Sell a straddle and be delta neutral at all time.
    Post by: Nasdaq5048, Mar 9, 2009 in forum: ETFs

  4. SPY Not-Easy-To-Borrow at TradeStation

    How about buying SDS? They are the same thing. Just buy 50 lots for every 100 lots you sell the SPY short.
    Post by: Nasdaq5048, Dec 22, 2008 in forum: Retail Brokers

  5. IB and Ubuntu

    i am using TWS with ubuntu. You need to install java version 5 first. The security code window won't pop up for some reason with java version 6....
    Post by: Nasdaq5048, Dec 7, 2008 in forum: Trading Software

  6. Another TradeStation Nightmare

    are you sure is the dec contract for YG? YG's spread is pretty wide when the big contract is volatile. Why not consider trading the GLD if you...
    Post by: Nasdaq5048, Oct 16, 2008 in forum: Retail Brokers

  7. IB Rules To Strict?

    Margin deposit on futures will not disappear no matter what happens to IB since it is in the hand of the clearinghouses, which is AAA? is that...
    Post by: Nasdaq5048, Jul 18, 2008 in forum: Interactive Brokers

  8. (For fun) World Series of Poker

    Is he the same Brandon Adam that appeared on high stakes poker and aussie million cash game?
    Post by: Nasdaq5048, Jul 11, 2008 in forum: Prop Firms

  9. IB TWS - Creating limit orders with pre-defined offset from last price

    Configure > Hotkey > Buy or sell specifi product > Create shortcut > Customize > ES then just do whatever you want under the order line
    Post by: Nasdaq5048, May 28, 2008 in forum: Trading Software

  10. ISE not reflecting bids on combo orders

    I ran into the same problem with the XDE (euro currency) vertical options. I entered a limit between the spread bid ask and was never seen...
    Post by: Nasdaq5048, May 13, 2008 in forum: Order Execution

  11. IB no interest on first 10K rule, what do you do with the money?

    Yes. Every customer is different. Is up to the customer to do what is best for them. But the key is that the brokerage house has to supply enough...
    Post by: Nasdaq5048, May 13, 2008 in forum: Interactive Brokers

  12. IB no interest on first 10K rule, what do you do with the money?

    Say you are a futures trader. You use the t-bills for your collateral and earn interest on the full balance. Depending on how small your balance...
    Post by: Nasdaq5048, May 13, 2008 in forum: Interactive Brokers

  13. IB no interest on first 10K rule, what do you do with the money?

    And guys, please vote for this EFP features on TWS. I think this is really good for EFP users....
    Post by: Nasdaq5048, May 12, 2008 in forum: Interactive Brokers

  14. IB no interest on first 10K rule, what do you do with the money?

    1 thing to note that you will never get tagged with a credit balance and get charged a high interest rate by IB with t-bills as you would if you...
    Post by: Nasdaq5048, May 12, 2008 in forum: Interactive Brokers