Thanks for you reply local - i found your information to be incredibly insightful. Just have a couple more questions. Where do we find...
Comfortably broke -1.00 and seems to want to head towards -0.80. Any ideas why? Since the front month contract is expiring, would this add...
"we have come off almost 20%, so careful where you short because some additional backwardation in the curve would be understandable" Excuse my...
Hi all, I am very new to calendar spread trading crude oil and this thread is great! I also shorted july and went long on august. (i'm assuming...
Thanks for the replies. So an additional $2250 in maintenance margin is not required in liquid cash in your account to open a position with IB?...
Intraday. Although on some rare occasions I will also look at spreads against some of the Asia-Pac indices as well, so this would include holding...
Thanks for the quick replies guys. I definately plan to do my due-diligence before moving forward, but I'm hoping to see what the industry...
Hi all, Just a quick beginners question RE: futures margins. How is initial and maintenance margins used against your account. Say for a ES...
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