Well I do not remember the widest and narrowest prices of the EW/ES spread I have but I will be posting my adjustment as I trade it around 3:00 PM...
Great, I can see CNBC in Greece: "We are waiting the Greece GDP numbers and inflation numbers here at 8:30 AM... OK here it is, GDP at...
Yeah.... we should call it.... LOST!
I was afriad of getting whipsawed on the economic data release so I covered at 8989 for 10 pips... I am sure it will keep falling as it currently...
Short entry on the Pound at 1.8699.... Pound paused after its drop earlier in the morning and looks like it is breaking out again to the...
LOL they probably didn't. I bet the clearing firm made a mistake and IBs computers only read what the clearing firm attributes to your account....
I think what most likely happened is the clearing firm put the long stock in the wrong account. It happened to me once or twice at a prop shop, I...
Read it several times...... still do not understand what you said lol
Not sure if that is really a hedge after an IV spike. If I put that on after the spike and the market rallies I could lose big on the call spread...
If vols spike I assume the market will have fallen quite far from the short call strike. I have not modelled this yet but my assumption is that...
Well tomorrow is expiration day for my 1340EW/1360ES diagonal on the short side. With the market at 1347.50 currently my short call is in the...
yup :)
Well I was saying that that is your max risk, a good retail broker should also count it that way and not treat it as a short stock margin and a...
Beyond the spot on lectures you received, let me say one thing. Did you know Riotech was going to move from $0.91 to $1.60 and if you had the...
Not sure if you would even have a haircut. The maximum loss on this position is $2,000 plus the cost of the long calls. So you would most likely...
ok... ok...
SOunds like you took my suggestion personally lol... well it was not for you then :D No matter what it is still interesting to see how it...
Nice roller coaster today huh... Even for those of you who do not trade futures intraday, you really should just watch a 5minute chart of the...
With durable goods orders we have an initial pullback. As long as we stay near 1345 we will still be able to close out the spread for a profit as...
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