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bear spreads (short front/buy latter) may work less whereas bull spreads will have more tendency to work imho

potential pitfall of mrci seasonals is that most data have been accumulated in high interest rate environment. when interest rates are high, buying spread, taking delivery/storing till back month comes is very punishing

I traded CL Q/Z spread for some time and made some money. I bought the spread when it is about -180 and sold at -160. To me monthly carry charge of about 45 cents seemed a fair value. however do not run the spread near delivery of front month because if there is any idea that storage space may...

hello I mainly spread trade correlated products such as gilts vs bunds, short sterling vs euribors. Now I trade from a retail firm now so they charge full margin for products in different exchanges. This greatly diminishes my trading capability. There are some european prop shops which provides...

may think like this: helped me a bit I entered this trade believing it will be a great one. Even with all fundamentals, indicators, signals, flow and PA on my side, it is not working thus I EITHER will be very happy to close at this little loss levels after more adverse price action...

hi Bone have a question about how to margin such spreads. Are there any brokers/shops which allows margin credits for using such highly correlated spread strategies? pls name a few. thanks

DDT is an introducing broker of crossland. DDT has exceptional service, takes minutes to get a response. DDT and Xland are for futures and future options trading. DDT has many platform and feed combinations. I used CTS platform/feed and it doesnt force you to logout. IB is a behemoth...

hi in autospreaders , there are many configuration options, you can select which legs of the spread, autospreader should actively quote then also options like a. market order second leg, b. limit order second leg upto xxx seconds, if not filled go market order etc. for detailed info...

since H2 expired, it will no longer work, go to quotes.esignal.com on the RHS box (which writes Enter Symbol) enter spread as the following format = 'ZW Z2' - 'ZW K3' this is Dec2/May3 spread you can also write spreads in the following form (allows to write bean crush, cattle feed, oil...

hi subscribers of MRCI (50 usd pm) can see the current price of the intrument versus the historical averages you have posted. However there is a very important point to consider when looking for seasonal patterns in commodities. Most of those 40 years was in high interest environment where...

how do plan to use that info? sell high volatility leg and protect by lower leg?

if B is filled, then you will be short of 2xB and may face price adversity. I generally try to enter long flies by two different calendars as going long at A-B and going short at B-C. For this I open DOMs of A-B and B-C and give limit orders in individual exchange traded spreads of A-B and B-C...

CQG Trader has an API version (from 25 usd pm) also you may consider openquant for automated trading . you just define strategies and connect to brokers via a multitude of connections

stoic gave all necessary info. A possible addition is there are exchange traded gasoline and HO crack spreads in NYMEX. CQG codes are HOECLE (heating oil/crude)and RBECLE (gasoline/crude). You can also view these spreads on CTS and x-trader these represent crack spread margin stoic...