Recent content by FullyArticulate

I generate these charts using tick data from DTN, but I know of no online tools to do this (heck, there's only one or two places that do straight futures spread line charts!) If you find one, let us know!

Quote from cold: is that regardless of country, if there were more REAL traders here, there would be more tax discussion overall You're an idiot. "Winners" are not the only ones that file taxes. Nor are "REAL traders". Losers that trade part time ALSO file taxes. Look up non sequitur and...

Why would only winning traders need to file taxes? In my bad years, I can defer losses against later winnings. Perhaps the difference is professional vs. amateur instead of winning vs. losing? Or, elitetrader has posters that don't assume everyone is in a single country. Frankly, tax laws in...

This is exactly the right calculation. One shortcut if you're trading relatively small lots: Look for where the margin break CME will give you for trading these two instruments as a spread. In general, that's pretty close to the right ratio. For example, CME will give you a 65% margin credit...

Presumably you sold at least 11 of them, or else you really have some accounting problems.

http://www.cmegroup.com/rulebook/cme-rulebook-listing.html See rule 358A01.I

Your ES futures and options are cash settled, hence no delivery risk. Gold futures H8 contract LTD was 2/27/08, options was 2/26/08. Corn futures H8 contract LTD is 3/14/08, options was 2/22/08. Coffee, Sugar, Cotton, etc all have options which stop trading well before the contract.

Options expire before the futures for just this reason. That aside, delivery is *not* for large traders only, and brokers will not automatically close out your position (unless the broker simply doesn't allow delivery, like IB). Soy meal and oil, crude oil, gasoline, etc. are all extremely...

It varies based upon the exchange. And you get a credit for filled orders. http://individuals.interactivebrokers.com/en/accounts/fees/otherFees.php?ib_entity=llc

There is a fee if you modify or cancel a stock option order. Futures options do not have a similar fee (and of course, neither do futures or stock cancel/modifies).

Think about the fundamentals for a second, and you'll see no "manipulation" is involved... You're a fund manager and have a bunch of money to invest in fixed income, and you have a choice between short term (say 90 day or 2 year) and long term (say 10 years, 30 years). If the economy is...

Look to get synthetically long with options. You'll pay way above limit, but you'll get in long if you'd like. Alternatively, look at back months, although with the Minneapolis pop today, they're likely limit too.

I'm sure the bidbot would make stimulating chatbot conversation.

I started with Tradestation with a single core Pentium 4 a few years ago ('05?). A dual core would be more than sufficient. As for the previous comment on a demo--you can get a free demo if you chat with one of their salesman (not that salesman chatting isn't painful, but at least you can do...

EL has loops as well, but it's a very simple syntax. If Close[1] > Close then begin Plot1(Close[1] - Close); end else begin Plot1(Close - Close[1]); end; I'm not saying that block does anything useful, just it's a sample of syntax. It would essentially plot the absolute...