Seems to be fine, showing a small mark-to-market profit but it jumps around a bit and obviously will decay to the expected loss over time.
I plan to keep my NLV well above the total cash I raised from selling boxes, so no. I've heard recommendations to put in a GTC Buy well below the...
Please, please be careful with leverage! Borrowing 20% of your account value to invest in well-collateralized, non-public market opportunities...
I couldn't get the Option Spreads window to work for me, so I ended building a few boxes by hand using the OptionTrader | Strategy Builder...
Several people have asked about how to profit from very cheap borrowing. Obviously, you aren't going to find a scalable, risk free return much...
I appreciate everyone's help. I sold the June 18 SPX 2000/4000 box this morning for 1997, which I calculated as borrowing $200k for 3 months at...
I'm still having trouble getting up the box structure such that I can trade it as a combo rather than legging in. I believe since this is showing...
I'm having a surprising amount of trouble getting up SPX boxes in TWS. Should I be using Option Strategy Builder or another window? TWS or...
Maybe I wasn't clear since I'm seeing lots of threads about selling boxes to avoid a margin loan. If I withdraw $1m to loan out and am thereby on...
For anyone following along, I found this explanation from the OCC helpful:...
IB will currently let me withdraw the money I want which would then be a margin loan. My thought was to sell a 1% bond to avoid being on margin...
I don't love selling options since I'll have to roll the position forward every few months. I'm looking for a way to lock in cheap money for...
Can you expand on that, preferably with real numbers from tradeable products and some discussion of commissions?
I have $5m at IB, almost all in index funds and Berkshire Hathaway. I'm interested in borrowing $2m against that to loan to an acquaintance (I'm...
> Is it really the case that nobody is getting sub $1 round trips in oil futures. I find that hard to believe. Member day rate is $.55/side, so...
I'm enjoying your HFT Myths thread, although I'm only 20% of the way through it. If you want to bring your skills to Colorado, drop me a note.
Brian Goetz is great, his concurrency book is a must read. But I think he is arguing that the current libraries in Java don't scale well to...
I do not have experience with Clojure, but it runs on a standard Java JVM, which typically handle concurrency very well. I write multi-threaded...
What does that have to do with evaluating a service? Ideally, I'd like to hear from people who have experience with MarketSci. Failing that,...
I'm not looking to learn to be a trader. I have an enjoyable and profitable day job. I'm looking to improve the returns of my portfolio.
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