Recent content by kbcool

I talked to IB technical support and although the answer wasn't definitive the rep suggested that the reason they don't offer the gold weekly futures options is because they don't offer instruments with low liquidity which matches with what Steven and CBC have suggested and what my own research...

Similar commissions with Interactive Brokers. The problem is a $1 spread on gold on weeklies anywhere but in the money is only going to net you 5c - 15c or so which is fair enough for the risk involved I'm not complaining about that but $1 or more on $5 credit is 20% of your potential profit...

First time poster, been perusing the forums for years. I have been looking at weekly options on gold and came across the GLD ETF weekly options but commissions are a killer with any broker (even IB) with trading spreads. The strikes are very wide as well which means on a weekly when the short...