Full time retail for a year. Part time +10 years. Sole prop. Use IB as main broker, Tradestation for technical analysis and back-up. Trade...
Does anybody know why there is no trading on OCT QM? SEP QM expires this Friday and normally people start to roll over their position in the last...
I guess I was right using TS for technical analysis (and time&sales book) and using IB for trading... Lately I started trading TS on a small...
I just now moved from TS8.1 (build 2172) to TS8.0 (build 1869) and here is how: When I upgraded to TS8.1 (exactly according the upgrade...
I also use TS for charting and IB for trading. I considered trading with TradeStation, but several reasons convinced me not to do this. For...
Regarding 2% "only". Economists believe the "fair" revaluation should be 15%-40%, but China would never rattle the international markets by...
You probably mean QM mini-oil on NYMEX. It expires today. Check NYMEX site for details.
Your stop order becomes market order if your stop levels hits to bid. If you want to get out at your stop level, use a stop/limit order instead...
If all you want to do is to lower your correlation to S&P, you can trade e-minis against your portfolio, or if you like options, you can trade the...
I'm not an authority on this issue... I'm sure the list of options may be found on the CFTC site, but I don't have it. It is definitely SEC...
Have to say I never encountered what you guys report. I have option trader open all day, every day.
Nothing unusual...Look at VIX chart...
IB's Commission will be higher above 28 options...but what if you get partial fill and the market moves and you need to update the limit? You'll...
See relevant cftc page: http://www.cftc.gov/opa/backgrounder/opapart30.htm There has been much discussion on this topic on ET in the past:...
I also trade primarily options with IB and I'm very happy. The platform is very stable, fills are very good and fast and commissions are the best....
TauTrader, You may overlooked IV (implied volatility). IV is far more important in option pricing than interest rates. As you know, IV is...
Fidelity has ticket fee of $8 plus $1.5/option. IB has $1/option with no ticket fee. There are other lower cost brokers, but I selected IB and...
Ensign looks nice, but according to their site, they don't support FOREX and they don't mention options. TRAD have "time and sales book" which I...
I do TRAD for charting and IB for trading. I think this is a winning combination. I use IB DDE API interface to excel for monitoring/money...
vhehn, This is a great initiative! Last year was my first year as a trader and I was clueless. On April 10, I almost signed my tax return...
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