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How certain mortgage rate will go to10%? In the long run, property prices tend to go up. A 50% correction is serious enough now. I think US props at good location is a buy now. Buy where there is almost guaranteed tenants. As long as rentals cover monthly payments and they should given depressed...

If prices have fallen in your area, return should be closer to at least 6-7% right? Care to explain why you would only get 1-2%?

Bob- I am not from the USA. tomdavis & peilthetraveller - I am having a hard time believing how can these condos lose 50% or 80% of its value? I mean, can't they be rented out at all? How much has rental fallen? Are these totally new condos? Were they ever occupied? I have also read that...

I have read that some of the residential homes have fallen 50% to 60% from their peak in 2007. Is this the norm? Are these properties in the rural or suburbs? How about high end condos/residentials right in the middle of big cities like in New York? Do they fall as much? Thanks a lot for your...

I am a noob in trading but I do not agree with this. If I sign up for coaching, I expect to be coached by someone with a consistent profitable record, especially when Bone himself claims consistent profitability in his website. This is different from attending a university course or subscribing...

This is off topic but hope someone can help me out. I understand that the expiration of Oct CL is on September 21. Can we trade right till expiration day? What if we hold through expiration day? Do we go through the delivery process? How to avoid the risk of going through the physical...

Ok. Thanks guys.

Is there a minimum account balance to be maintained at IB before the account is closed off? I undertand that $10 will be charged monthly for data if no trades were done. So, will IB charge every month until the account is below a certain threshold? I am thinking of taking a sabbatical for a...

The most likely explanation is that IB's own code for auto liquidation is flawed. This is a serious flaw. Not only that, previous post about IB liquidating the long puts FIRST is totally nuts. I am also following this thread closely.

So essentially the "final system" is a collection of individual strategies implemented on the same instrument? Or, is there a main system with multiple "hedging" systems? Would be great if you can give a simple example. Thanks

What platform/broker do you guys use to spread trade? Do the trades have to be automated? So, I can't trade them unless I have some programs? Are Interactive brokers ok? Basically, r u guys trend following or trading mean reversion? Thanks a lot.

I have tried to "close all non base curr" before and yes, it still results in a position in portfolio. I am not sure if your next suggestion to change "value" to zero is the correct one. Why so complicated? Isn't there an option to just convert the exact -ve balance into base currency at the...

Hi, I have lost some EUR trading the DAX. I have decided not to trade DAX anymore but the -ve EUR balances incur some interest charges every month. I am using Interactive brokers. How do I get rid of the -ve EUR balances permanently from my account? I have tried using IDEAL to buy enough to...

No. You lose not because of ______ but because of ______. Give it a thought. There is gem in there.

Does mechanical selling iron condors or strangles on a fixed date every month using very very little leverage with discipline of rolling out result in an EDGE over the long term? I am targetting about 10% p.a. return with enough capital to keep rolling out 6 to 7 times. Personal backtesting and...

My intended stop is 10 pts. I do not need to get it right within 1-2 ticks. I am going for 3 "all out" correct trades. Eventhough I do not have 1.5 mil, I have quite a sizeable account. So, margin is not really a probelm because I can scale down a bit. That's just an example. And needing a 1.5...

I said I wanted to risk 10k, not that I only have a 10k account.

The recent rally offers at least 50 pts on the ES. It is not that far fetched to risk 10 pts to make 50 pts. If one starts with an initial stake of 10k and wait for 3 of this type of trades, then one can have 1.25 mil at the end of 3 trades. Anybody trades like that? It was just a random weekend...

Thanks for the link. Inputing 0.02 or 0.05 for interest rates yield hugely different results and the price of calls and puts do not make much sense because 122.5 is below 138 but how can the put price so close to the call price? Also, in order to guess the IV, I guess I have to try different...

Can somebody show me where to get free option calculator for futures? I am trying to find out what's the IV for this Kospi options. Mar futures is 138. May 122.5 puts expiry 14th May European style is going for 5.60. What's the implied volatility? Normally, I depend on IB's...