I lost my mood partially for trading today. I suspect the same things have happened to other traders after reading this news....
This year is a booming year not only for U.S stock market but global stock markets as well. It is puzzling great fund managers close down in a...
I invest in international stocks using IB. Overall, I am a happy customer. I have encountered this irritating experience several times when...
Since Hugh Hendry's success in 2008, he became a perma-bear until 2013 when he turned bullish. It was the right macro call, yet he lost so much...
I would like to use Interactive Brokers to set hidden stop orders for stock index futures. I found out that this feature is available on TWS....
Of interest to elitetraders here will be the richest man from Florida. He created lots of value to elite retail traders and I say he deserves...
Many of the quant funds mentioned in this Bloomberg article are into equities. Why is it so hard for them to make money in a bullish year? Hasn't...
If traders call him God, then he must be the best. If the best has fallen, this tells us something very significant has changed in the market....
I have been using Reuters StockReports+ on Interactive Brokers TWS since early part of 2017 as a convenient quick assessment of a stock. Since...
What are some websites that provide the fair value of stock index futures? Preferably, fair value of European and Asian stock index futures are...
I have been trying to wrap my head over this question but just cannot do so. Try googling stock index futures hedging and all the search results...
I mainly invest in stocks. There is no such thing as open interest in stocks. Open interest is a new concept to me. In futures trading, do the...
SPY is a favourite ETF for passive investors into the S&P500 index. How about using ES for passive investing? Wouldn't the leverage be desirable...
I have been advised to always use stop losses when trading futures. So far, I have only been using mental stop limit orders for my stock trading....
What are some good books on trading stock index futures? It will be nice if the book talks about short-selling using index futures as well. Thank you.
Suppose a IBKR client margin account is entirely in USD. He wants to buy Nikkei futures in JPY. Would it be better for him to convert to some JPY...
For IBKR customers who trade both stocks and futures, they need to decide which sweep option to choose. This is a headache for us. There is not...
I have been looking at the Nikkei futures. It seems to me it is a no-brainer to trade the Nikkei futures contracts from Osaka since they are the...
Curious what are the other popular index futures besides the usual NQ, ES, YM.
Louis Bacon is down 2% this year through June. What really puzzles me is why former hedge fund stars like him have been performing so poorly...
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