So the Census Bureau has been failing to SUBTRACT taxes paid by workers and failing to ADD benefits paid to those not working. No wonder people...
I see the new expiries popped up on my TWS a few days ago, so I went and read the CME primer on these. Looks great for those of us that trade...
An interesting read for those that have been through the trenches of managing long term derivative positions....
My TWS is up, but is acting like the exchange is closed. I have no quotes for ES or any ES based options. My account window is still reading the...
I was holding a few ITM EOM spreads on ES for May. Given that they were safely ITM, I let them run into expiration today. I was considering...
I have an order hung up on Globex and can't reach IB. Chat isn't working (at 6:45am EDT), the "new ticket" function won't load the web page and...
I was in but servers froze up, exited and now cannot get back in. Of the three others out there with me who still use this POS, is anyone else...
I have a couple of IB accounts. One is tiny and the other not. In the tiny account, I hold one ES put and one ES call, both short and expiring...
Anyone holding EOM ES futs options at IB may have gotten a surprise just now. Suddenly every set of positions I have got multiplied by 10, but...
I was holding a decent amount of futures option spreads in ES that were deep in the money as of Friday. Knowing they convert to cash, I left them...
It appears that SPAN-like margining has been expanded to cover more products. As the article suggests, this should enable the little guy to...
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB115352546280214217.html?mod=hps_us_editors_picks An update on Matador and a few words from Vic. He is now down...
http://www.fnveteran.no/humor6/episode1.html A lil fun for you guys between trades.
It appears the SPX value is not printing. Neither QCharts nor IB has any prints 20 minutes into the day for SPX, VIX, RUT and others.
Music to my ears. Excerpt below...full article through the link. http://www.suntimes.com/output/business/cst-fin-merc22.html "Since going...
CNBC reporting that someone bought a large number of calls on TLT (Lehman 20 yr) yesterday. A quick check of my stone tool shows open interest of...
I am unable to get QCharts to bring up any 60 minute (or less - preferably 10 minute) data for the period Feb 11 thru May 9, 2002 for the SPX.X....
Add another no-action letter from the CFTC. These are pretty good indexes for those of you seeking exposure across the pond....
CFE is set to go. Highlights from the link below of the new futures contract: "VIX futures will trade from 8:30 a.m. to 3:15 p.m. (CST) under...
It seems that CME has bumped up the performance bond requirements on the most index products, some by a LOT (NASDAQ E-Mini). ES margin is now...
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