Recent content by jones247

Hi ggsn1, Are you a directional trader, or a vol trader... with options, it's either correct direction or correct volatility that makes money... Walt

Congrats on your performance... are you long vol or short vol with your non-directional trades? Walt

Give "TastyTrade.com" a "look-see"... Tom Sosnoff and Tony Batista, two former option floor traders who have been very successful, give a free daily market broadcast. Tom is the founder of Think or Swim and sold it for about $600 million. Their daily broadcast is very informative. Walt

+1... as a matter of fact, Ben Bernanke recently testified to that effect before congress... In the end, the fed will simply hold the bonds until maturity while simultaneously printing money... Don't worry about the devaluation of the U.S. currency, as there's a universal collusion to print...

I'm having some fundamental problems with "non-guarantee" spreads on financial (treasury) futures. I would like to enter a four legged intercommodity spread with four different instruments. IB only allows two legged intercommodity spread orders, although it allows you to create & view a...

thanks...

How much would you charge?

I would be fine with buying at the ask and selling at the bid; however, I have no coding skills. It would be easier for me to pay someone to code that for me. Do you have any suggestions? thanks, Walt

thanks for your reply DM... what I'm looking for is a software that will execute all legs of an intercommodity spread simultaneously. I wouldn't want the software to leg into the transaction, as the risk/exposure wouldn't warrant the benefit of legging into the spread. btw... does anyone...

I'm having a problem with Interactive Brokers. I'm interested in executing a spread that often will include 3 - 5 different treasury instruments. For example, I want to trade the UB, ZB, ZN & ZF simultaneously as one spread trade. The problem is that IB only allows 2 legs for "non-guarantee"...

Is anyone experienced with trading the BOB spread? Would you offset this spread with the ZN? thanks, Walt

I'll give SPX a "look see"; however, I'm willing to bet that I will run into the same type of shenanigans as with ES... but perhaps I'll be pleasantly surprised. btw... the issue of legging out creating margin calls would never occur with IB. I've had large front month spread positions...

I'm sorry guys, but I just don't buy it... since when did any broker, particularly IB, start looking to protect the customer from losing money, or even blowing out their account???.... If that's the case, then I guess we can all assume that our respective brokers will always be there to keep us...

Comintel & Pfranz, Your perspective is appreciated; however, the big difference is that I'm not talking about naked positions. If I was trying to enter a naked option position, or a net short, option position, then your points are 100% correct. My point is that my positions are...