When did I say I was happy about it? Hitting myself for closing that short far too early. Hope your investors are still talking to you...
Stoned, I really hope you got out of this one beforehand. Those poor RACK longs who held since the Q2 50% collapse, only for another collapse...
Except when the corporate account "pays" you your profits (when you repatriate your earnings), aren't you then susceptible to your ordinary income...
So in the course of 3 months, you left your old firm, hired 50 recruiters to work for you, who placed 320 doctors ($4M / $25k / 50%), all while...
Must have been a quick year..
If you're trading a foreign-denominated futures contract (HSI for ex.) through IB with a USD account, are the fx conversions for commissions...
Looks like silver has successfully observed a test of the 200-day SMA and is moving higher from it. Does anyone know why the continuous...
"But so I understand It's marked to market and the balance goes up or down but the position is still floating (don't have to re-enter and pay a...
"If I have carry trades and don't want to lock in my Profit/Loss (If i want to hold the position longer than 6 months) then the contract rollover...
To make a long story short, the forward interest rate differential (IRD) is always priced in to the futures continuously over the life of the...
Refer to my post here: http://www.elitetrader.com/vb/showthread.php?s=&postid=1320289#post1320289 Still a lot of unwinding to do with under...
Those are Feb contract prices. You do know that the Feb contract expires for trading in under a week right?
Occam's razor. whitster is right about the unwinding. Simply too much long exposure on the Feb crude contract. 293,775,000 barrels built up....
Gem, Interesting system. I'm a bit perplexed on where your exits are listed on your excel spreadsheets for the ER. I see the long and short...
This is simply not true, anyone in the US can still play. Go on thepokerdb.com, you'll see plenty of players making quite a good living at it...
But isn't that indicative of the true cost of rollover? If you were holding December crude and then rolled over into January crude, you would...
Wrong on both accounts. They didn't ban poker, and there's plenty of action to be found. A friend netted $60k in Dec alone, $170k in 06.
That's precisely the time frame I was looking at and I certainly won't be using the weighted-average continuous contract on stockcharts. Thanks...
If you want to trade after work, you might find better trading vehicles in the Asian stock index futures (Hang Seng, Nikkei, even Sydney)....
For anyone familiar with the continuous contract indices ($WTIC, $NATGAS, $GOLD, etc) on stockcharts.com, aren't they supposed to represent the...
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