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    Ag trade ideas

    I don’t generally trade hog spreads because of the way cash settlements work over there. In live cattle the market was looking for huge oct marketing’s and isn’t getting them. Cash has maybe bottomed and turned higher. Bull spreads won’t work until after FND ever really, because everyone is...
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    Selling Spreads & Risk at IB

    With Ib you will be in a margin call situation or margin violation easily. Just my experience
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    Selling Spreads & Risk at IB

    First of 4-1 leverage is intraday only unless you have 100k + and have a PM margin acct your basically at 2-1. But that really has nothing to do With selling options especially at IB as there internal risk can be wonky
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    x_trader transactional

    Thank goodness for this.
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    Ag trade ideas

    Minnie wheat kaboom
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    CTS T4 tradesniper

    Anyone currently using T4 tradesniper how does it stack up to TT ? Have they made any improvements or changes in last 6-12 months ?
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    Cattle firm fined by CFTC

    Ya cause they're a bunch of cheaters
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    Cattle firm fined by CFTC

    It was in delivery month though daily volume could only be 2k
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    Butterfly legs - Futures

    I would start with the Ags, Grains, Cattle etc. I trade flys all the time in Cattle. Your on the right track atleast your not trying to day trade the Indices. Check out Seasonalgo.com for seasonality studies on spreads. Good luck
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    Ag trade ideas

    Corn looks poised for higher
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    TopStepTrader Experience

    I can understand why someone would need to complete a combine but in reality if you simply adhere to the combine "rules" on your own account you could theoretically use 15k-25k and get same leverage. Why split any profit when you can just adhere to the rules on your own
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    Butterfly legs - Futures

    No offense and not trying to sound like most of these "elite" traders but you shouldn't try and trade something you don't fully under stand But I will try explain. Say you go in a soy hkn spread you will be long or short the middle and opposite of wings you will profit if they get further...
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    The $900 Book That's The Favorite Of Hedge Funds

    You google toby crabels and get it a PDF
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    Visualize buying and selling volumes

    You want to look into Volume Profile and Delta charts
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    Mentoring

    I'm looking for a mentor. Someone with good knowledge of spread trading and more specifically Grains and livestock.
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    Stop Limit orders outside of regular trading hours

    Just because a bid is below a stop order price doesn't mean it triggers a stop there has to be a trade at or below the sell stop price to trigger a stop
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    Questions on Standard Margin/ Intraday Margin

    So your saying if the SPAN margin was say $800 for a spread you can offer $200 intraday for that spread ?
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    Ag trade ideas

    No this is as volitile as I've seen Live Cattle 10k equity swings daily it's a nightmare to be on wrong side of these moves
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    Trading Technologies cancelled my order--what would Rick Lane say?

    In my experience getting compensation from TT or any fintech company is not easy. You seem to have the incident well documented so maybe they will comp you some platform months for free.
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    Advantage futures

    Check out Dorman I've been happy there
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