Recent Content by tradegoodstocks

  1. Running IBKR Scripts via TWS/IB Gateway in the Cloud (US Server – EU User)

    Stupid question: What might be a potential benefit of having a custody account at IBKR when trading is on Lightspeed (if I understand it correctly...
    Post by: tradegoodstocks, Jun 26, 2025 in forum: Interactive Brokers

  2. Sudden Margin Hike – S&P 500 Options (CME)

    What kind of strategy are you running that sells deep OTM puts? CME has futures options, not index options. What strike price? What broker?
    Post by: tradegoodstocks, Jun 26, 2025 in forum: Options

  3. Running IBKR Scripts via TWS/IB Gateway in the Cloud (US Server – EU User)

    What precisely does that mean? Do you translate requests sent to your API to IB's API, or are you talking about using IB front ends for Lightspeed...
    Post by: tradegoodstocks, Jun 26, 2025 in forum: Interactive Brokers

  4. Mark Price

    I don't think what you are saying makes sense. 1. I don't think brokers adjusted for possible dislocations on the yield curve to calculate mark...
    Post by: tradegoodstocks, Jun 14, 2025 in forum: Options

  5. Buy and hold Treasury exposure using futures

    No, implied financing cost spreads of futures a.k.a. replication cost are not de minimis, but substantial and recurring, as are annualized swap...
    Post by: tradegoodstocks, May 17, 2025 in forum: Financial Futures

  6. Buy and hold Treasury exposure using futures

    None of that will solve the original poster's problem. With SOFR futures or swaps you pay the swap spread, which currently is roughly equal to the...
    Post by: tradegoodstocks, May 16, 2025 in forum: Financial Futures

  7. Buy and hold Treasury exposure using futures

    You already answered almost all of your own questions. The futures basis is not relevant for replication cost. I would point you to the related...
    Post by: tradegoodstocks, May 15, 2025 in forum: Financial Futures

  8. FXCONV gone?

    I just did an "IDEALPRO" currency conversion in my IRA (by definition no margin leverage allowed), and promptly receive a "virtual FX position" in...
    Post by: tradegoodstocks, Mar 20, 2025 in forum: Interactive Brokers

  9. FXCONV gone?

    What precisely would be the definition of "leveraged" FX trade? I typically have slightly positive or negative balances in various currencies in...
    Post by: tradegoodstocks, Mar 20, 2025 in forum: Interactive Brokers

  10. What is the best way to use idle cash of an active option trader

    I think it would be presumptuous to think that you (or user "curiosity") are the only ones who "discovered" this volatility term structure, while...
    Post by: tradegoodstocks, Mar 2, 2025 in forum: Options

  11. Recmmendation of broker for large amount of small orders

    Do you have any specifics, or experience, on the limitations of zero commission plans? It's certainly not a few times per week; I do a few hundred...
    Post by: tradegoodstocks, Feb 25, 2025 in forum: Retail Brokers

  12. API to retrieve combo/spreads not options

    To my knowledge, for options you don't even have access to the complex order book from TWS or any other front-tend of IB, so probably also not...
    Post by: tradegoodstocks, Feb 15, 2025 in forum: Interactive Brokers

  13. What is the best way to use idle cash of an active option trader

    What ironchef was told makes no sense to me, and I think your experiment or observation is correct; although to be honest I don't know how the...
    Post by: tradegoodstocks, Dec 2, 2024 in forum: Options

  14. What is the best way to use idle cash of an active option trader

    This makes absolutely no sense.
    Post by: tradegoodstocks, Dec 2, 2024 in forum: Options

  15. What is the best way to use idle cash of an active option trader

    What exactly were you trying to accomplish / to check? Unlike futures margin, on the equities / equity options side of the account, the margin...
    Post by: tradegoodstocks, Dec 2, 2024 in forum: Options