I was in Europe, on Eurex and Euronext from 2002-2010... no pit experience unfortunately... would've loved that.
I meant options market maker, not market maker in the underlying... so we never had any underlying inventory, only as a hedge... As an options...
-edit- Scrap this... since only the market-to-market profit/loss is in USD, not the actual value of the index...
Why would there be a problem with this structure? Personally I would always contact an accountant or tax-lawyer to review/setup...
IMO you can't tell in advance if VOL is mis priced, same way you can't tell if the stock is going up or down... the move afterwards defines the...
That said.. the Yen is pretty much driving the index for a while now....
Yen goes up, Nikkei goes down... because Japan is an exporting nation. More expensive Yen means less exports which hurts underlying economie. The...
If you run an algorithm on co-location it wouldn't really matter what you control it with. I know people that check their algo's and trades on...
sounds like a shitty broker to me... Well clearly Ryker is still dealing with them... so it wouldn't exactly help him when he dumps their name...
Yeah, like Maverick says... why wouldn't you finish your studies and work to make money and in a year or two you'll be able to put more in your...
Giving away any money is always annoying... Do the legs move a lot? You could try to do the outrights and try to either break even or make some......
Is it a large FCM? Doesn't sound like so... Transfer would take time, 48 hours doesn't seem like enough time to setup a new account etc. What...
good news - market up, bad news - market down... unless good news means interest rates up, in that case market down... is that the data? ;)
Intraday would be best, but just to see if an exit is/was possible... surely EOD OHLC would be sufficient? Probably you will need intraday for...
why don't you pull the OHLC data and return a value from a formula when your price falls within OHLC?
Uhm... I think you're mixing up a few things. The MACD value will still be the same if say you use 12,26 and 9 and start 100 periods back, or...
Hi VTS, I'm just wondering... if instead of buying XIV or VXX, you would sell the other... sell VXX or XIV... would that make a difference in your...
My confusion is about what the OP put down, trying to make sense of it. And I was just pointing out that the relationship is far from a perfect...
No a stock has a delta of 1... Delta is how much the value of something changes when the underlying changes by 1... so for stocks, it's 1... For...
I know, I just can't stand it when people start saying things that are incorrect... there's too many people following bad advice...
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