if your position is hedged then yes, if your position is risky - then margin will be worse than RegT
Hi, I looking for information and people with experience in designing / trademarking / registering of new commodity indices. Suppose you...
not sure how it's good for daytrading, except maybe for parking huge amount of cash into EFP or daytrading pairs. The buty of portfolio margin...
Every year same thing: end of december - big players at vacation, small highly leveraged players able to move the market. I'm short. Need to...
Hi, anyone trades LSE stocks via IB ? The exchange info say: price increment .005, currency GBP. But I think their stocks are quoted in...
OT: re road construction with all trillions being spent on new road construction and auto industry bailout. I think it's better to allocate...
They talking about GGP and proposing to gain 500% by taking advantage of domino-effect in the REITs industry. Build short positions on major...
Why is ILS isn't available on IDEAL[PRO] ? Even if IB specify margin requirements for ILS. I think it's only used by Clal Betuha, which is using...
Can you explain please what is "energy scheduling"? thanks
If I had a means to do this, after locking 34% profit I would put 4% into long calls or bull spreads, thus getting additional upside.
My position is synthetic straddle: 1 QM JAN @ 50.675 1 CL JAN 50 put @ 3.80 now I see a bid for CL $50 put @ 8.00 For example, I wanted...
How do you sell CL $50 PUT, when there is no bid? Market makers only have quotes for strkies lower than $48 RFQ doesn't work. Any suggestion...
1 QM JAN @ 50.675 (effective 49.175 since was long QM from high 48). 1 CL JAN 50 put @ 3.80
how do you play ^XNG? You can't short index outright...
I have $50 straddle, need oil to breakout either way in comming weeks, otherwise will close the position.
puts if anyone will sell me CL FEB 30 CALLs at quoted prices I'll become zillioner ;-)
oh, I screwed now - oil will tank to $30 and I'll lose big! - NOT :) Maybe you understand in options, but not in oil futures. FYI: 1 CL = 2...
did a little QM scalping and now legged in into a position: 1 QM JAN @ 50.675 1 CL JAN 50 put @ 3.80 it supposed to be a synthetic...
I remember several year ago foregners weren't allowed to invest directly in Russian shares, only in ADRs / GDRs. Then they had huge imbalances...
I'll be going long RSX calls when it will reach Sep 1998 levels (Russia's default). What I don't get is: till recently Russia wasn't correlated...
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