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Every academic will tell you that Futures and options trading is zero sum. However that does not make it true. To say that it is zero sum fits nicely into how academics think. We as traders do not have this luxury, we have to be right to make money, academics only have to fit the consensus to...

I am so glad that this thread has came around to the truth about markets. In no way shape or form are the futures, options, currency and stock markets a zero sum game. The concept of what money really is holds the key to this. Every transaction made is a form of fiat money. This money created is...

Both the Liffe and Eurex have "upstairs" or wholesale markets so that large players can make large trades without getting front-ran and moving the markets. Often these deals are made over the phone and then reported to to the exchange. These deals to not add any liquidity to the market that...

I am not in Toronto but in the other GTA of Teeswater. Teeswater is a small town in the Wingham, Walkerton, Goderich, Kincardine, Listowel area. If you guys are getting together in Toronto on the weekend I might be tempted to come down and talk shop.

I as I know well my self buying a place and renting out a part of it to pay the whole mortgage is a great way to get ahead in life. You don't pay rent and you get to build up a little equity. I have seen friends of mine go out and buy a house because they feel that they have to get that first...

A lot of the post here can be summed up by the following "use rational decision making for the purpose of buying investment properties, but when buy your primary residence don't bother to crunch numbers just buy or you will be poor all your life" If you crunch numbers and it is cheaper to buy...

#2 is dead wrong, why pay more to take on huge price risk, responsibility for repairs and to become tied down to one spot. This is part of the flawed thinking that is driving up prices. There is no magical need to own a house.

It didn't show up on the futures either. I was flat the whole time, I just hope someone didn't get royally screwed on a stop.

Did anybody else just see the IB Ideal Pro quote go under 1.1700? Did anyone trade it or get stopped out? Is it a real quote found elsewhere or an error?

You need to figure out what is greater rent or interest payments on a mortgage and then factor in taxes, insurance etc. In a lot of markets you will be further ahead renting.

Right now I have got one pip spreads on the euro and yen with my Interactive Brokers account. I am just concerned about people getting mixed up with those forex firms that are basically thieves. If you trade FX with IB it is a fair system that leaves little to be desired but that doesn't make it...

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Does anybody know the interactive Brokers symbol for this contract, if they have it already.

Forex is very hard to trade. Most retail brokers are essentially british spread betting firms in their worst form. The spread you see is likely the spread on the spread on the spread. Don't discount trading US futures during these hours. There is not as much action as during the day but ES...

What do you think of this for a $C hedge. Trying to hedge C$500,000 above $0.92. September Calls Short 10 9000 calls at 1.41 total credit 14.1 Long 15 9200 calls at 0.86 total debit 12.9 Net credit of 1.2 or $C1200 less C$87.50 commission ($3.50 per contract) for a net credit of...

Don't forget about 20 cents a pound sugar. This has to effect the competitiveness of ethanol.(Ethanol making is a inefficient process to begin with)

I guess I would have a problem.

When ever I walk past the sony store I always have to ask what the projectors are worth. Your still looking at $3000 but would it be great to have a four feet by four feet screen.

Ripley, Are your pants on fire?

I have a feeling that the oil sands could be the greatest exercise in deprecation in all history. That is the value of the oil coming out will be worth less than the cost of the inputs over the long run.