The OP’s question is valid because of the retarded way IB margins vertical spreads. Even though his max risk is $50 IB marks to the bid/ask on the...
The margin requirement for vertical spreads is totally nonsensical at IB. If I have a bull put spread on ES at Sell 10 Puts 2700 Buy 10 Put 2650...
IB has a fairly large PB service now. Any legitimate fund or major trader in the energy space (eg Bone) uses webICE (or its replacement once it...
How is living in Madrid, Spain useful at all for minimizing taxes on trading profit? Spain's taxman is almost as bad as France's and the Beckham...
Eh not everyone on ET is a retail trader. Plus it used to be free so maybe someone found it to be worth the nut they want to charge now.
Anyone here use Genscape for Phys Natural Gas? Specifically the map product NatGasRT?
Well... other than not being able to print my goddamn confirms out not much has changed. Though I don't recall the bal day closing on Friday at...
Yes, we use all the voice brokers as well as energy match, but I'm talking about the intramonth swaps
Oh come on, no one is going to voice broker a bal day. I could see what you're saying for a monthly but intramonth?
Sure, I wouldn't recommend it to someone not familiar with the market, but if Joe Schmoe wants to try his hand at power and hand over his money,...
So for example for G/WH unless I'm watching it every second of every day, because it's so thinly traded I have no idea if there was even a bid or...
PJM WH Bal-Day NYISO G DA next day/PJM WH RT next day etc...
If they do this right, and make the power futures just like any other product on ICE Futures US, liquidity and volumes should increase drastically...
It really annoys me that when I chart on the ICE platform I can't see the historical bid/asks, and there is no historical level II equivalent....
I honestly don't see how this will fly. https://www.theice.com/publicdocs/futures_us/exchange_notices/091312ExNotEnergyMemberhip.pdf If IB...
I emailed the Director of Operations from ICE: Me: OK, still unclear to me, maybe you can help clarify. The âenergyâ membership notice...
Hey bone, can tt trader store and graph historical bid asks for webICE data? It's annoying when I'm outside of trading hours on webICE and I...
Thanks for the info. Do any of the prop shops also have membership in the ISO's/RTO's? The second half of the equation is ISO/RTO trading,...
OK, sent him a PM. I think if everything is cleared the requirement is lower from ICE, but there is still a ~$1 MM Tangible Net Worth...
I know bone has said he's traded PJM WH swaps at a Chicago prop shop, anyone know which one? TransMarket? Still find it really odd that there...
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