I have been informally managing some money for <b>family & friends</b> for some time, trading commodities only. I am not a registered CPO, and my...
NetBank's deposits was taken over by ING when FDIC moved in and closed NetBank. Over a weekend, accounts moved to ING - that's all. The scenario...
illinimatt81, It's a lot simpler in your case, I feel because you are trading in a personal capacity. Let's use ING's example. Open 1 ING...
trader_arb, that's true. That's why I talked about changing broker issue - this setup won't work very well with IB
I would look at ETrade. However, I am more of a systems trader, like IB's TWS, used to TWS's programming model and all code is written with TWS in...
Thanks cstfx. I checked both Schwab & CO, but didn't see anything about business checking. It's likely they have it - would call them to confirm.
I trade through a LP with IB. Used to keep about 50% of money in bank, rest in IB as I don't need that much for margin (Futures only). But since...
Yeah, better than folks who's tripping all over themselves commenting on empty threads, no looking for the obvious. I guess trades are done the...
What's the big problem? I posted a question. I actually finished posting and while reading it over, I decided to rethink & reword the post....
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Um.. what's long TF? If 1 - 3 day is long TF, then yes. It might be possible to "scalp" spreads, but it's beyond me. I know my limitations....
Wondering why the discussion is so focused on stock pairs trading. I mostly trade futures outright, but a big chunk of my trading is spread...
Short answer - yes Long answer - http://www.google.com/search?q=section+1256+site%3Aturbotax.com
The partnership is a CPO. 100% futures. Nothing else. "Trader Status" etc. does not apply. The taxes on capital gain is always max 23% blended....
traderstatus, thanks for your reply. However, unfortunately, it leaves me no wiser. I do understand it's a potentially complicated question. I...
For a tiny Limited Partnership, trading futures only, how should the fund expenses be allocated to the partners? Example, Partnership made...
Yes, there is. I gave up running it on linux a while ago. I don't have time to debug this - but I think the issue is this - if you are running the...
Mike, If I request QQQQ from one API client, and QQQQ form another API client, does it count as 1 or 2 towards the cap of 100?
Anything that trades in CBOT and CME would qualify, I think.
Yet another reason to run a commodities pool instead. Not asking you to change your trading style or move to futures from stock just for this -...
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