Recent content by OptionsWizard

Bob, apparently this could be downloaded only 10 times and this limit was reached. Do you mind uploading this again? Thanks!

I correct my previous post: During 1987 market crash, VIX was alive and kicking and climbed to 150!

I guess these are all short CALLs and you didn't have any stop loss in place. You have to assume VIX can go much higher: 38 in 1997 43 in 1998 43 in 2001 45 in 2002 There was no VIX yet in 1987, but I read somewhere that if it was in existance, it would have been over 60. IMO, your...

SPX options are rigged...I traded them for many month and eventually moved to ES options (Globex) and NDX options (multiple listings). Liquidity and spreads are good enough. Why bother with a contract that is not fully electronic?

I looked at VIX options couple of month ago and decided it's not worth it. Look at the specification carefully..the options are on the VIX futures, not the VIX index. The moves in the options are very slow and far from reflecting the moves in VIX itself. The pricing model just looks screwed...

Dell never got back to me. I went to a computer store, bought the same GeForce 5500 128MB as you did and had them install and test it. They expected to have it done in 15min. Took them 5 hours, but it's working. The only caveat is that the GeForce 128MB must be the primary and the ATI...

Thanks Jeff. I talked again with Dell, this time with a manager who understands the issue and he promised me to research this and let me know what will work.

Since you mention it, I got the following email from IB today: "It has been detected that your account currently holds a position in one or more of the following physically delivered products. R YG YI ZB ZF ZG ZI ZN ZT A long position in any of the above products will become...

I just bought a Dell Dimension E510 Pentium D dual-core with ATI Radeon X600 256MB PCIe, almost identical configuration to Jeff's. I'm now shopping for a second video card to support additional pair of monitors. I intended to buy from Dell an identical card, but it cannot be ordered...

Well, that depends on your trading timeframe. If you trade daily swings, it's completely irrelevant. If you day trade the ES and average 4 ticks (1 point) per trade, than losing 1 tick on entry and exit is 50% of your profits. The numbers I measured, 100-200ms roundtrip, are in my comfort...

I use multiple 19" and 24" wide screen. As one member posted already, it's mostly a matter of real-estate vs. price. Since you could by 3 to 4 19" monitors for the price of 24", the multiple 19" are preferable. There are 2 reasons to go for widescreen: First, if you want to view a wide...

I finally figured out the way to ping IB servers and the roundtrip delay is about 85ms. So the time IB took to execute the orders was 25ms-105ms! Way to go IB!

Are you kidding? IB data speed and execution speed is probably among the best in the industry In another thread I posted results of execution speed measurement I've done from the time TWS detects limit order is marketable, send it over the internet to IB servers, from there to the exchange...

Yes. This is based on the log file on my machine, so obviously includes communication time to IB servers and back.

I'm not aware Crude has options trading electronically (not via IB, anyway). Gold is ZG I mentioned earlier. I'm sure silver has options as well, but didn't try it.