Recent content by kmoney

Thanks, I must've just missed it!

There's several reasons but the main one is I've found a relationship that exists intermittently between the etf and another unrelated commodity that would be more expensive and possibly impossible to fully to recreate using only futures. Gotta just bite the fee bullet.

I already trade futures, I was hoping to pair trade futures with ETFs

Are there any brokers that allow you to short the Tecrum corn fund etf? I can't seem to find any. You guys know of any?

Thanks Tom, you're as helpful as always. I looked up double diagonal spreads and that was exactly what I was thinking of.

I've been fiddling around with a reverse iron condor strategy and while I was doing that I had a thought (Dangerous I know). I'm sure someone here will explain why I'm an idiot but it's better to be an idiot with money in my pockets than to be a broke idiot so I figured I'd post on here and see...

This is possible if you use European options but you’ll find that the return before commission expenses will be at best equal to the risk free rate unless the options are massively misspriced

Thanks for the answer.

I know for stock options there can be an advantage to exercising options before a dividend. Is there any reason a trader would exercise commodity futures options early? The only reason I can think of is if interest rates became negative. Thanks for the help.

This may seem like a ridiculous question so I apologize in advance. I'm still relatively new to options as I've only used them to hedge in the past. Is it at all reasonable to sell an out of the money option farther out and to cover by buying a nearby option with the same strike? Once the...

Buying puts gives you a guaranteed maximum loss. Selling futures to hedge for a black swan event leaves you open to unpredictable losses