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XIV is down more than I'd expect given the SPX move today, and Bloomberg at 2:45 PM says Brexit Poll Sees 10-Point ‘Leave’ Lead Two Weeks Before Vote which is consistent with the theory that Brexit uncertainty is causing vol to outperform.

You can regress XIV returns on SPY returns to compute a dollar hedge ratio. Recently it has been about 4.

Also bad for people who are short VIX futures hedged by short S&P :(. Here is some speculation about what is happening. Goldman Sachs made a bearish call on the market this week, and the WSJ reports that Soros is bearish. The market is stable to slightly up, but insurance is in demand.

According to a YouGov poll, 57% of people think Trump's attacks on Curiel were wrong, with only 20% saying they were right. 51% considered them racist, and 32% did not. Republican office-holders have criticized Trump over Curiel because they disagree with him and because they correctly believe...

They disagree with him, as do I.

Another explanation of their criticism of Trump is that they think his comments are wrong.

Trump should rebut slanders against white men instead of slandering other groups himself. If Trump does win it will be because of heavy support by white voters, especially white men. Given Trump's naked racism, non-whites and Muslims would conclude, with some justification, that many whites are...

Trump keeps digging: Trump triples down on attack on judge's ethnicity By Louis Nelson Politico 06/03/16 05:11 PM EDT 'Donald Trump expanded on his attacks against a federal judge’s heritage Friday, arguing that the border wall the presumptive Republican nominee has put at the center of his...

Speaker of the House Paul Ryan agrees, although because of his position his phrasing was softer: 'Unprompted by WISN radio host Vicki McKenna, Ryan scolded Trump for his racially-based attacks against the federal judge in California overseeing a civil fraud lawsuit against Trump University...

"You want to talk about unusual and irresponsible? Your team has destroyed the 4th estate and turned it into Pravda. Your President politicized the courts... Now I would have agreed that as a Presidential candidate what trump is doing is questionable... a decade ago. But... now... how can you...

http://www.wsj.com/articles/donald-trump-keeps-up-attacks-on-judge-gonzalo-curiel-1464911442 Donald Trump Keeps Up Attacks on Judge in Trump University Case By BRENT KENDALL Wall Street Journal June 2, 2016 7:50 p.m. ET Donald Trump on Thursday escalated his attacks on the federal judge...

I may buy the book Pivots, Patterns, and Intraday Swing Trades: Derivatives Analysis with the E-mini and Russell Futures Contracts Wiley Trading Series, 2014 by M. William Scheier The first chapter and table of contents is available at the book site...

Thanks to you and the others who replied. I emailed IB, where I already have an account, and they confirmed what you wrote.

Do brokers impose higher margin requirements on brokerage accounts that are traded through a limited liability corporation? I especially want to know the answer for Interactive Brokers.

If you short a stock, you must recognize a gain when it falls so much that it is deemed "worthless". How is that defined? I am thinking of a long-term short in VXX, which is an exchange-traded note that tracks a long VIX futures position. VXX has fallen 48% a year over the last 5 years, but it...

It depends on how often the system wants to trade. I am trading a system based on closing prices that takes about 5 minutes to run. I believe Interactive Brokers lets you submit trades as CSV files, and when I do this I should be able to reduce trading time to 2 minutes or less. It helps if you...

Thanks for the informative reply.

I can download 1-minute data from Google Finance for the last 15 days using Python script at http://trading.cheno.net/downloading-google-intraday-historical-data-with-python/ . For SPY, data is provided from 9:30 AM to 4:00 PM EST, but I know that SPY trades actively before and after the...

I have started trading, and I intend to tell my wife about my P&L at the end of each month. I did yesterday, and fortunately the P&L of two weeks was positive. I think updating her more frequently could just cause stress, but if I lost more than $X intramonth I think I ought to inform her. We...

On Interactive Brokers I can place limit orders for TVIX only to the nearest penny. But time and sales data from Nasdaq (see below) shows that some trades occur at fractional penny prices. If TVIX is quoted at 4.45 to 4.46, how can I try to buy at 4.455? time price volume 10:34:07 $...