No problems today. Thanks!
IBj, Any updates with regard to fixing the shorting issue? I tried shorting the SPY as recently as Wednesday afternoon (June 14) and received...
Not today...IB rejected my order. :( I tried to go short the SPY this afternoon and my order was rejected. "Your order is not accepted. We...
IBSoft, I just sent an email to help@interactivebrokers.com with the info you requested. Thanks for your help. Has anyone else had a problem...
Hey ETers, I am trading ETFs and I've been experiencing some large (10 second+ !) :eek: delays when using IB's Smart Routing on a rather...
ETers, Let's say my account has $25,000 in cash which means I have $100,000 in buying power (4 x 25k). I decide to buy 500 shares of an ETF...
A very valid point about time decay. Maybe the trendfollower should adjust their position size to take into account the the potential payoff....
I agree that liquidity is a problem. And I thought about the open interest issue yesterday. I agree with you there too. Anonymity is one of the...
All true, but I'm not sure that is relevant to this particular situation. I am not proposing that a trendfollower replicate the delta of an...
I thought that Empirica was essentially buying DOTM strangles. I thought Nassim's whole premise was that traders underestimate the frequency of...
If I'm buying DOTMs and I'm skillful in my trading I don't think slippage would be that much of an issue. If these CTAs can get huge positions on...
So I've been thinking (that's dangerous all by itself) about CTAs (Commodity Trading Advisors). Based on what I know of CTAs, a lot of them use...
Matrix Trading, Kingstree Trading, and Jump Trading -SG
There are definitely prop firm traders that trade this kind of size in the Eminis and don't have a problem. The Eminis have a pretty thick order...
So, with regard to Nassim's strategy, there are two possible scenarios (as I see it)... A) He is making many (probably small) bets on lots of...
I wanted to start a discussion on Nassim Taleb's Empirica (his hedge fund) and, more importantly, his trading strategy. My understanding is that...
Let's assume that I am short a straddle, but I don't want to carry a naked position. Please correct me if I'm wrong but I could hedge this...
Yesterday, I spoke with a guy at Trading Technologies (TT) that told me that X_Trader can be used to trade ETFs. This was a surprise to me...
Ha Ha Vega! :)
100k shares on the bid or ask?! At any given time (price)? Having never traded ETFs before, I was guessing that getting off 10k on the bid/ask...
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