Recent content by Ace_Rothstein

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yes, waiting to hear from them

ugh, I misread my sheets, nevermind. IB's base rates stayed the same, only CME fees increased (which IB passed on).

Did commissions go up .05 per contract today? I saw CME increased fees but no notice that IB was doing the same.

Texas Society of CPAs sent the below to DC pols. Big for those without trader tax status if they implement https://www.tscpa.org/docs/default-source/comment-letters/federal-tax-policy/2020/tax-changes-necessary-due-to-the-coronavirus-txcpa-letter.pdf?sfvrsn=bcebdfb1_6 Temporarily Increase the...

If you scroll down the page https://www.cmegroup.com/company/membership/individual/cme.html#pricing , there are half a dozen offers for seats to lease $200/month (for the IOM, lowered costs on Emini). Have periodically seen those leases go off at $150/month FYI..

Is $0 commissions for futures even possible? (beyond the Tradovate model where you pay a subscription price per month for unlimited trades) I didn't think they could sell order flow information for futures and thus there are no rebates on the back-end... In any case, they might need start...

Thanks for comments. Yeah, I dont usually come back from the bigger down days so I am going to use a smaller stop-loss (was using the 1k TST limit as my stop-loss but it should be smaller), I get psyched out on large red pnl days and dont often come back fully so that is one change I am making...

targeting 3-7 ticks with stops of 2-5 ticks. I didnt find the fills to be that generous at all (I watched time-and-sales for ES tick-by-tick). From what I saw, the fills would err on the side of caution - since they were not actually sent to exchange there is no way of knowing, but I found...

Forgot attachment, here it is...

I've attached my last combine - was trading it in conjunction with my equities prop account so was not able to devote full time to it (excuses, excuses), but will be starting another in a couple weeks and want to post about it here. Will be trading mostly ES although also now trade NQ as well...

Say someone has an edge, maybe can eke out 50-100 bucks a day trading ES in their PA on 1-2 lots. Maybe 15-30k notional value in the account, but they cant size up because they need to pull a few hundred out to pay bills or cant accept the risk/reward or have any number of other personal reasons...