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Thanks for the insights. Would you be kind enough to share your trading platform of choice and your FCM of choice. Thanks.

Why DON'T people LISTEN????

Care to share more details? What was the problem?

Can any CTAs/hedge funds who currently tarde through Man or have in the past share their views on their trading platforms, customer service, commission rates, reliability, etc,. Thank you.

Don't trade undercapitalized, don't overtrade and don't day-trade!!!!!!

Has anyone used it to trade BOTH equities and futures. At what firms can one use REDI to trade both futures and equities with cross-margining?

Who has experience with RediPlus? Could you please share comments about the platform? Also what rates do you pay for commissions? Thank you.

Does IB have minimum commissions for each stock order? For example, if I place an order to buy 100 IBM @ 100. When filled, am I charged US$1 commission (i.e. 0.01*100) or do they bump the commission rate up to a flat rate?

Ditto! I just read the article tonight and found it entirely dissapointing......

The T-Bond is a great swing trading vehicle....why waste your time in the negative expectation day-trading charade. Devise a strategy to capture these good swing moves and you just may find yourself, profitable, happy and definitely far less stressed.

DMAXX looks good. Anyone know its cost?

bump!

DO you know of any freeware - preferably web-based that one can use to upload futures trades and get/track intraday and EOD P & L?

What's a good source for historical options data (futures and indices) that includes greeks and options prices?

when you say +expectation, I presume you mean high probability of being profitable/short gamma?? In that vein, wouldn't a long straddle/starngle, have a -expectaion, or do I misunderstand you? With a wrangle, using my example of a 1025/1145 range and undeRLying at 1106 what strikes would...

No risk, no rewrad, that's traidng, atht;s life. do I take this to mean that it is impossible to create the position I desire. If so, is there an approximate option position that would meet the previously stated specs?

That is precisely the issue with deep OTM put/call spreads, you receive negligible credit. As per being long or short gamma, preferably long gamma, but indiffireent as long as the position does not have an unlimited loss profile. The P & L distribution should roughly peak in the middle of 60%...

Let's say you came in on May 1 and expected the SPX OR ESM4 to trade between 1025 and 1145 for the month of May. Esm4 opend on may 1 around 1106. You want to create a position that will profit if your market view of this range is right, while being as much as possible delta and vol...

Many thanks!

Thanks for confirming what I thought...all the semantics can get a little crazy. Many thanks. I'll ask you a few questions, if I may, that I previously asked: how would you compare a short iron condor to a long wrangle in terms of risks/reward - given that the trader was expecting the market...