I work at a company that produces natural gas. I had a simple idea but it looks so good I must be missing something. (No free lunch) . I am...
One tool that I use every day with IB is their scale trader feature. Scale trader lets me add to a position and even take profits automatically....
I apologize up front if this is not the appropriate forum to post this question. If I wanted to maintain a bond portfolio that had an...
I place a buy order on future with a good till time of 10:00am. At the time of my order there are 99 orders ahead of me at this price. Some...
I want to build an application that will do the following: It is started with a price to purchase a combo. Ie, the user inputs that I want to...
I am willing to spend $1,000 per month betting on a black swan. My thoughts were to purchase SP500 puts (ES). But then I got stuck. Do I...
Anyone know how to launch multiple instances of TWS on a MAC? When I click on the TWS app in the application folder it just opens the existing...
I have an automated trading application that is written in java. The program runs by clicking on a shortcut which contains parameters that...
IB has a limit to call up the market depths of 3 options at a time. This is true of TWS use or through their API. I am building an automated...
I am trying to calculate 'fair value' using the BSM on the ES. I get it that we don't have all the inputs. We have to guess at the vol. I have...
If I understand the CBOE website the value of the futures contract will eventually equal a weighted average of vol for the 30 days preceding the...
Is buying and selling Vix options pure speculation? Are there any tools that would help determine some sort of 'fair value.' Thanks in...
Is there a 'study' in IB charts that can show me when the VIX has moved by two standard deviations? Thanks in advance for any ideas. David
At 2:45 today the e-mini was at 1157. I had 2 different IB accounts open. I was looking at the Sep 1180 Call. One TWS had the model price...
Here is the situation: Sold 1 ES put with a strike of 1,300. At expiration the index was at 1,275. it is possible to be assigned 1 ES...
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