Perhaps an IB rep can answer as to why the Nymex daytrading margins are still 100% (now January)? All of the other futures contracts reverted to...
Today was very brutal...only one trade the whole day for me...it doesn't matter how volatile the market is; if its trending or not, the problem...
Who is your broker? IB was charging 7,800$ a contract...now its about 7100$, as per the Nymex non-member rates
I'll post the link again to where a bunch of traders meetup through:http://daytraders.meetup.com/140/ Bright Traders are also a good bunch of...
I understand what you are saying..but no matter how you slice it, the world economy is dependent on oil for reasons of a political and corporate...
All of this conjecture is nonsense, oil as an energy source is getting more and more implausible, by 2030, oil will be obsolete. Its only due to...
I wouldn't be taking your news from Bloomberg, as they have no idea what they are talking about...when explaining oil prices, they look for the...
The ICE doesn't trade independently..it is merely the shadow of the CL contract on the Nymex (which is to say that WTI-ICE is all...
One has to wonder if the Nymex is raising its margin requirements in order to increase volatility, I can't see an advantage to them doing so, but...
Also..just to mention...for other oil traders, that now means that London is 16.3% cheaper per contract margin, and 30% better on commission at Ib...
Hey Chauncey...no worries..I understand what you are saying...and as I realized..the Nymex is the one that did consistently raise the margin twice...
Ids...and others...it seems that IB has indeed been consistent with the Nymex margin rate increases as of late..and have always charged the...
Firstly...the backmonth of oil is $5,400, that is true...HOWEVER, the current contract month is $6,416 currently, that is a fact. This is inline...
Again chauncey1...its has nothing to do with being a "good" trader or not, or being "overleveraged"...these are non-sensical points...and IB...
Firstly, it doesn't matter how many contracts or portfolio leverage that one trades, the margin req. increase is going to effect your contract...
Today IB raised the crude oil margin (CLZ), to the amount of $6,400 (it was approx $2200 back in August, a 290% increase)...Nymex raised its...
Ids, or any other IB rep...do you know why Nymex margin reqs are still double...this seems odd in that Energy was never effected by the volatility...
Hey Ids, is IB planning to lower the Nymex futures (particularily energy: CL,NG,RB)? The summer volatility in index futures, didn't even effect...
The intraday margin for ER2 is down to 50%, however, YM is still 100%, which makes for the odd situation of ER2 contract margin being...
Thanks for the reply Def, its appreciated...also good to hear that IB does indeed intend to lower them.
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