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yes cost of carry is included in future (thanks!) and decreasing until expiration, this is why I try to sell it and buy it back later being during that time long spot as a full hedge. Normally I should not get a 2 digit return with any of these basic methods except that I can leverage spot to...

I dont know of a less risky than risk zero

Hi, I am not offering any solution but just trying to have your opinions about collecting risk free at least 10% a year using short futures versus Long cash or EFT The propositions I have read or thought of are: - Buying gold (or Silver) cash and selling Gold (or silver) futures contract...

Hi Late Apex, The idea with gold (and I agree it moves faster than major currencies) was to buy spot gold and sell a future contract to collect premiums and generate a return of about 15% per year according to a post somewhere above in this thread. If we do not use gold, we need to use a...

Hi CFerret 15% looks good to me, I am just surprised we can get as much as this selling gold premium. Any precise reason why Gold and how do you arrive to 15%? Do you sell gold future using all your available margin and buy gold spot at maximum leverage for same amount, and you repeat...

Interesting but does not cover how to maintain the account neutral in US, if not neutral, little chance that the interest collected will cover the potential lose of being leveraged on one side of a trade

Electricsavant, What made the cash & carry method become rough this year ? Denis

After reading again this thread and investigating what Electricsavant called the PICS method, I think that the idea I tried to throw in this forum has already been fully investigated and traded by Electricsavant and others. I am still confused with what he did or is still doing about his...

I did not create that system, did not trade it and I dont master it, just tried to report it as well as I understood it. synthetic EUR/CHF ? No, not simply creating a synthetic EUR/CHF but trying to be in a neutral position. So not exactly buying Buy 1 EUR/USD and 1 Buy USD/CHF but something...

It is not a perfect system and not a risk free system, it is just an idea send around and may be need to be investigated further, seems that someone somewhere made it to work. You make your 2 pairs to be correlated as close as posible to 100% (there are website giving correlations) then You...

There may be an alternative as proposed by one forex website that I will not name: The idea is to make money from the differential of interest of 2 pairs that are almost inversaly correlated. As the pairs are not 100% inversaly corralated, some adjustment have to be made around once a...

If there is a place in occidental world where banks do make bankroupt it is the USA, not in western europe. Statement of "having money outside the US contains huge risks" are totaly ridicoulus

There is an advisory on the web that suggest to trade correlated pairs like EUR/US and US/CH for a no profit/ no lose (or close) but in order to take advantage of the difference of paid interest. There website is welldone but not detailed (only a videoand FAQ) but they claim to generate money...

Is there a way to save on our hard drive this complet thread then print it all or only part of it ?

Hi Coach, I was away from this thread for months. Does someone remember when or where in this huge thread the VIX as hedging had started to be used or explained by Coach Also what kind of event is a black swan ? Thanks Denis

Andy, The commission you fixed are quite high and sometime eating your profit or more than doubling your loses. Are they so high because thetypeof spread you trade are available only with that kind of expensive broker commissions ? Do you have all your results from day 1 on a...

Andy, We never know how many each people really invest in their own trading, may be some guys are paper trading and they claim they manage million $, other may be reading and asking occasionaly basic questions in this thread and they are managing millions in their trading accounts. Some make...

There is nothing better than practice to learn ! As I said you can read and study strategies or ideas from the 2180 posts of this journal or others and miss the SET danger, but real life remind it to you rapidly.

SPX Credit Spread Trader has just became the largest Journal in EliteTrader (in number of posts not yet in number of vievers)

I have been reading this thread since long and I dont recall anyone insisting on the danger of the expiration SET before yesterday. And it seems to be a recurrent problem each month with the SPX. I (we) know about it now but could have read it earlier! BTW, my ToS broker warned me by...