@DR7 .... The hedge department does use collars. Good call! My idea is probably DOA. My pitch to the boss was while the price bounced around...
I think I would only need to unwind if the call was in the money.
Thanks for the quick reply. Do you agree that it is equivalent to buying a stock at 3.42 and selling a call at 4.00?
I work at a company that produces natural gas. I had a simple idea but it looks so good I must be missing something. (No free lunch) . I am...
Trader Bob buys a stock on Monday for 50 with a stop for 25 and it gets executed even though the stock never goes below 40. Then he does it...
It wasn't there before but now there is a 'crypto' box under futures in IB
One tool that I use every day with IB is their scale trader feature. Scale trader lets me add to a position and even take profits automatically....
I use IB for trading treasury notes. TWS works very well. IB publishes a schedule of the margin based on credit quality for corporates and time...
I just received the same notice that I can't add any volatility trades even though I meet the new margin requirements. It feels like IB has...
When I read the notice from IB I thought the higher margins would go in effect on or after August 19th. That seemed like a reasonable period of...
What is the difference between NLV and NAV? My statement seems to add the accrued interest into the NAV. Change in NAV Total Starting Value...
This is perfect. Great find. This helped me sort this question out. Thanks for all the answers and ideas the others posted as well.
I apologize up front if this is not the appropriate forum to post this question. If I wanted to maintain a bond portfolio that had an...
I have a similar question. I trade with IB. When using the risk navigator it uses the spot vix instead of the futures to determine the greeks....
I am not seeing why the spreads will get better. If there are less players then I would think the spreads get wider. How can more players,...
Thanks for the reply. It is on Vix Futures (CFE) I have seen the same info that you mention and as you point out it doesn't seem to address...
I place a buy order on future with a good till time of 10:00am. At the time of my order there are 99 orders ahead of me at this price. Some...
I tried the scale trader. It doesn't use the average price when placing a profit order. I dont understand IB's logic. You could be 'scaling'...
I am going to look into scale trader tomorrow. It sounds like it may give me most of what I am looking for. If not sounds like it is coding...
Ugh, sounds like programming. Is there something between excel and hard core programming? Do things like ninja scripting fall between?
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