I hold these trades usually overnight or a few days and trade at EOD. All comments welcome. Today, near EOD I short IYR at 41.68, long AUD...
It's not possible to simply trade the contracts independantly [not on the spread combo]? IB ought to adjust the margins for the hedged spread. I...
Whats inspiring the US real estate market at the moment, its showing indecent haste, has there been remarkable news?
Hi, Trading stocks, IB has a 0.5c commission. This works out well for small transactions like a few hundred stocks, but when placing large...
thank you for the leads, I have a 200 day correlation with oil futures of: oil 0.8 oih 0.88 iye 0.83 the others were way less
EFTs like USO are not, they move down with oil but not up with oil and as a result are not too correlated. Are there any alternatives, any...
Hi, Does anyone have experience with the cash balance when going short with IB? My cash balance flickers with every update. Of course, the...
I checked the "Market Value" and yes there are positions left from currency trades but they in no way account for the fluctuation in Net...
I just see in the Balances 1. Net Liquidation Value 2. Equity with Loan Value and 3. Cash It's broken into Total, Securities and...
Hi, Is anyone aware of affect of T+3 settlement date on the IB accounts? Is the correct balance of the account not reflected until 3 days after...
Right. Do you trade pairs? (I notice the Markets Open is favourable for pair trading.) I read once "the Markets Open is set by amatuers and the...
Thats interesting, I noticed the afterhours market and it was mainly higher than the EOD. I find Yahoo usually correct, though this calls into...
Yahoo seem to have the closing price for FXI as 35.75 yesterday. Yet I saw it close at 36.08 and elsewhere its reported at that price.
Does a rise in bond yields in these circumstances attract investment funds away from stocks, and lower the stock market? Is there anyway to gauge...
Thanks for pointing that out, I meant yields. Stocks and bond yields going up together actually is my question, I am sure they can and do go up...
Regarding the question of inflation (say inventorys supply continue to drop and demand picks up and theres a lag and inflation develops), you'd...
IB sorted the problem out OK, just had to tweak a couple of unexpected settings.
For the record, the Equis service I subscribed to is working fine for now. Will see how it goes.
I concede you are correct that equis is no good, it just keeps crashing and I haven't even started with it. Though I do not do âa little...
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