Recent Content by Primal Trader

  1. Alert: CME raises some margins - on Friday evening?

    I was perusing margin rates of my key futures markets this early AM, and it jumped out at me that CME had raised the initial margin on the Swiss...
    Thread by: Primal Trader, Apr 5, 2025, 11 replies, in forum: Trading

  2. Which broker has the lowest USD margin loan rates?

    I don't see a problem using margin myself, it never caused me problems when I used to trade stocks in the mid-90's. Anybody trading a 7 figures...
    Post by: Primal Trader, Feb 28, 2025 in forum: Retail Brokers

  3. Client Asset /Money safety, Seggration Bybit story

    Yes, that is correct, and I followed the MF Global fiasco in real time back then. As you know that firm was quite the outlier, fortunately. Due...
    Post by: Primal Trader, Feb 26, 2025 in forum: Crypto Assets

  4. Client Asset /Money safety, Seggration Bybit story

    Certainly there are some obscure layers with these and other firms, staking your financial future on such can be at times poor risk management....
    Post by: Primal Trader, Feb 26, 2025 in forum: Crypto Assets

  5. USD: Sell! Sell!! Sell!!!

    I have a slightly different perspective. One of my degrees was in International Economics, talk about sitting through some mind-numbing classes...
    Post by: Primal Trader, Feb 22, 2025 in forum: Forex

  6. Capital One Bank account freeze

    I personally would be wary of much of any advice from AI! I suggest instead reading this article on De-banking, 4 of those you listed are...
    Post by: Primal Trader, Feb 14, 2025 in forum: Retail Brokers

  7. Capital One Bank account freeze

    Outsourcing of offices overseas not so good at all, that is why I mentioned Mid-sized Banks. For example, years ago Enterprise Bank and Trust...
    Post by: Primal Trader, Feb 13, 2025 in forum: Retail Brokers

  8. Capital One Bank account freeze

    Unfortunately there are numerous examples online whereby individuals have experienced similar locking up of an account via various banks, usually...
    Post by: Primal Trader, Feb 12, 2025 in forum: Retail Brokers

  9. Gold chart analysis

    Interesting looks, thanks for your efforts in sharing them. From January 14 to 23 I had seven successful Gold trades in a row using CME...
    Post by: Primal Trader, Jan 25, 2025 in forum: Commodity Futures

  10. IB asking for selfie and passport scan now for 10 year+ customer!

    That sounds pretty weird indeed. The extraordinary and growing invasion of privacy rights on this increasingly Orwellian Planet is quite creepy to...
    Post by: Primal Trader, Dec 15, 2024 in forum: Interactive Brokers

  11. Retail investors play a losing game with complex options

    My impression is that there are a number of neophyte traders on this forum, who at times forget the basics of options and how they are put...
    Post by: Primal Trader, Oct 28, 2024 in forum: Options

  12. Retail investors play a losing game with complex options

    Retail or "sophisticated" institutional, statistics clearly show that most traders lose money on buying call options, Theta is built in against...
    Post by: Primal Trader, Oct 28, 2024 in forum: Options

  13. Nobel Prize in economics awarded to trio for explaining why some nations are rich and others poor

    Having been to both towns of Nogales on each side of the border many times, the contrast was still always shocking. And on the US side you could...
    Post by: Primal Trader, Oct 16, 2024 in forum: Economics

  14. Are traders on EliteTrader better than average?

    Over the years I have read some exceptionally intelligent and quite helpful comments on ET. There are a few here from whom I learn a lot, and whom...
    Post by: Primal Trader, Oct 14, 2024 in forum: Trading