Hello, I've been daytrading the Haggerty 1,2,3 setup on the S&P e-minis with limited success so far. If you've been successful trading this...
Pretzel, Writing options will only increase your risk profile if the S&P's move beyond your strike prices, not reduce it. Draw the payoff...
The premium won't evaporate in all in day. You can recover some of it by selling the options the next day. You'll lose at least the spread,...
If you buy a call, and buy a put, you're risk to this position is just he premium you pay. The long call and long put will offset any losses...
Yes, impossible to hedge out the risk completely. At best I think you can limit the risk via a straddle to a finite amount.
Yes, $SPX is a viable alternative as well. The only drawback is that the dollar value of the underlying will be larger than that of the 3 e-mini...
MYD, Thanks for your comment. I don't believe that options on the SPY are available. It's not available in IB, and I didn't see SPY listed...
Ambush, Thanks for your comments. Yes, the Dow futures trade nicely and would be a good hedge if you know your current open position in the...
Hello, After the recent Globex outage, I've decided to come up with a disaster plan in the event of another outage at Globex, my online broker,...
Lundy, Can you clarify your comment? What is your rate? For what volume? At which broker? Thanks. -- ITZ
Actually, these two contest here require trading of real money accounts of significanct sums (25K or so, if I remember correctly). Unless you...
How is MB Trading at answering phones when their systems go down and hundreds of their clients are calling at the same time? Are you able to...
Thanks JT.
Hello, I'm currently looking for a backup e-mini S&P futures broker to IB, or perhaps even a replacment for IB as my primary futures broker....
Here's another contest, which also is widely advertised: http://www.robbinstrading.com/worldcup/
Thansk Tradewinds. I'll check them out.
Hi, Do you know of any brokers, other than InteractiveBrokers, that offers "Universal-like" accounts? InteractiveBroker's Universal accounts...
Any thoughts or comments about it? Anyone know how big the cash price pools were in the past? http://www.robbinstrading.com/worldcup/
In regards to brokers with good pit-positions: which broker has the best spots? Thanks. -- ITZ
Thanks everyone.
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