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Agree with this. Would much rather see pricing for API access and historic data than some new charting platform.

Sure, It pays for itself almost every day. I plan on leasing a second seat next month.

@schizo I went through this last summer so I'll try and answer what I can. 1/2. I believe they charge $1000 application fee for each additional membership, I would imagine buying a seat you currently lease would fall under that. I believe this is also the fee if you are a lapsed member, but...

I'm not sure I have a solution for you, but here are some things to think about: You are likely to run into margin problems with interactive brokers, if you need margin credit intraday you should be going with an FCM (or even an introducing broker through an fcm). FIX is a bit of a pain, and...

The Ultra is not a 50 year bond, It is for 30 year bonds with no less than 25 years to maturity. Whereas the ZB is for a bond with no less than 15.

Well, if your only trading one, and not the other its hard to get any edge out of it. But if you are open to trading both, you can lean on the curve to decide which product a better chance to play out your trade. steepening curve> long > trade note steepening curve> short> trade bond...

Sounds like optionality to me, good for them.

This spread refers to the ZB and UB, two 30 year bonds at different locations in their maturity. Delivery against a ZB contract is made with a treasury bond with greater than 15 years till maturity Delivery against a UB contract is made with a treasury bond with greater than 25 years to...

dx/dy for a quotient = ((derivitive of the numerator)(denominator)-(numerator)(derivitive of the denominator))/ (denominator)^2

It looks like he's trading natural gas on inventory release, so the outcome is likely near binary. The calculation for average may round to the nearest minute, but im not sure. Side note (brag)..... I passed the combine today.

For the love of Laplace, please stop bastardizing probability theory, to try and justify your shitty performance.

Every one in this thread is an idiot (Me being one of them now) Those who think stop losses are for losers: You are the biggest idiots in the bunch, Stops are insurance, an amount you agree to pay in the event that a trade goes farther against you than anticipated. Trading without a stop...