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That looks like a viable product. But I can't seem to find on IB.. do they trade it?

Calendar spread could work. Or someone else suggested option spreads. I'd still prefer a product to trade the underlying straight if it's available. Sometimes the duration of trade is short and I fear spreads may not yield the desired result. I want to be able to setup a stop $2 away without...

I looked at QM. That's the mini futures contract with a 500 multiplier (500 barrels per contract). I'm looking for a product with a 100 multiplier, basically a micro contract.. if it exists. Some FX brokers offer it as a CFD, usually called USOIL or LIGHT.

I've searched everywhere for this and can't seem to find an answer. Is there a way to trade a micro contract of WTI crude oil (100 barrels) with Interactive Brokers? So far the best I've found is a mini futures contract at 500 barrels per contract. A CFD would work too.

I've looked into buying puts but the premium makes the trade not worthwhile taking. I can look at some more complex option strategies but thought I'd check to see if maybe someone else has a better way to do it.

The correction in the market over the last two days was not all that significant if looking at SPY but several growth stocks got hit pretty bad. We're talking 5% corrections versus about 1.5% in the index. Has anyone found a good way to hedge against market corrections in growth stocks? I've...

My understanding of IB is that up to a certain balance you will not get paid interest on cash holdings but you still have to pay interest on debit balances. i.e. if your balance is below $100K. See this link for more details -...

Thanks, those were some great responses. Very helpful. Tommcginnis - K ratio looks really interesting and I can already see that I'd want to track that. It seems it would be quite easy to write a small script that interacts with the IB API to automatically push data into a googlesheet to...

Hello, New member here. I've been trading for a while, I recently switched over to IB and in their reports they provide Sharpe and other ratios. I'm wondering how important these ratios are as in the past I've read some funds rely on them heavily while more recently I've seen some...