I just checked under "Fees" on the home page and commissions are listed for the pit now. I am certainly not going to be the first to venture...
Anybody? I can't find the info on the CME site. It should be obvious but isn't.
Anybody know how the final price of ES options is calculated? I am thinking about the December expiration. It looks like the fixing price was...
Correct. December option contracts become December futures, and January, February, March contracts become March futures.
If this had happened at the CME or CBOT, they would have busted all of the trades made by the little guys who bought in at a lower price and made...
Can anybody point me towards a succint explanation of the WASH SALE rule? This is my first year with a good profit and my first year worrying...
Why not get your account with IB and then trade something like QQQQ? I'm not sure if you can trade 100 shares of QQQQ with $2000. Maybe you...
developer17, Sorry to hear your pain but thanks for posting this story here. It has provoked an interesting discussion and also provided a...
Here's a basic link I found: http://www.cme.com/files/CmeCsiHousingIntroTermSheet.pdf Have to admit I am curious about this stuff. Maybe sell...
how on earth will a market maker hedge a position? i really don't see how this can work at all. a good idea, but...
AlanM, Thanks for those links. I guess I learned the hard way about this type of option expiration. I am still annoyed that IB didn't...
SethArb, You are right. I shouldn't have trusted IB's calculations to determine whether I had a position after expiration on Sunday night. I...
Hi Def, Thanks for replying. I checked my account on Sunday night to see if I needed to cover any position from this spread. I was holding...
IB mostly works quite well. Mostly... But in this case, a supposedly limited risk spread (a butterfly) turned into a nearly $2000 loss....
Anybody else get screwed by this IB mistake? I got this message today and the position just showed up in my account. November 7, 2005...
Would this help? http://www.cbot.com/cbot/pub/page/0,3181,1662,00.html Looks like monthly volatility for the cash notes (not the futures)?
Estonian kroon is pegged to the Euro. Very stable since it was introduced in the 1990s. (Not to mention a lovely little country...)
zf_trader: Is this the type system you want? http://www.vierling.de/www_vierling/weatherman-en_667_340_6_f.htm
I thought it was me. I pulled up a few years worth of these last week on TWS (particularly z6-z5) and the very next day they went dead. Hard...
Dude, get a new computer. I have tried a lot of brokers and IB is the best. I would drop them in a second if I found a better one, but until...
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