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With a lot of my friends buying there first house I get asked about this all the time. I always say "do the math". Often I get the reply "what do you mean paying rent is just throwing away money". Smart people too that tell me this. I really think you need to do the calculations and if it is...

Does anybody arb ES spreads against Eurodollar contracts? Maybe around the roll?

My thoughts on the subject -Bio-diesel is slightly economical overall, however most of the benefits involve getting around taxes and converting what would be waste material into fuel on site. -Ethanol is only produced because of the the Senate in the USA. Each state gets two Senators which...

Franglish and TA. I friend of mine just moved to Sudbury. In Sudbury people speak "Franglish" meaning that instead of using exclusively English or French they just what ever language describes the situation best. So instead of saying "The best of the best" they would say "le creme de la...

With regards to India, the business climate varies greatly from state to state, with some being Marxist or Maoist. I would assume this effects tax rates on businesses. Also if you could get access to local stock markets you could arb the difference between the price in local markets and the...

If you go to www.onada.com they have a fx positioning indicator. www.dailyfx.com follows the same sort of thing. I really don't find it useful for short term trading of major currencies. For long term trading of emerging market currencies they can be useful.

You can try www.bankofengland.co.uk for Mervyn King's comments Also for TA http://www.trading-strategies.info, although more webcasts than podcast

Will IB take options positions into account when calculating margin requirement on IdealPro? (By the way do you take futures options positions into account currently?)

I don't think that will be a problem. If you have high speed internet you should be fine. You can do something called a ping test that will give you your speed, but that is only needed for very intensive scalping. Furthermore CME has a "hub" in Singapore were I believe orders get 'time stamped"...

I was joking, and trying to find out who is from Calgary.

I would walk out of Bankers hall across the street to the Bear and Kilt, order stuffed yorkies and a pint of Kokanee Gold. After the sun goes down I would head on over to Cowboy's throw a bit of money around and pretend to be a Wildcatter to impress some of the West's lonely girls.

You don't need 25k to day trade futures. It is only needed for US stocks and stock options. Probably the best way to think about it is the 25k pattern day trade rule applies only to SEC regulated products.

Search "Closed end funds" and "Optionscoach"

Check out www.me.org. Volume has risen to the point that they might even be tradable. Last time I looked in the Globe and Mail the volume was over 100,000. Which when you think about it is a lot of volume considering there isn't the need for mortgage hedging hear like in the states. (Gotta...

One time I was trading the Schatz and I had a bid in at 035, next thing you know there is a volume spike on the chart and it is showing a trade at 030 but I never got a fill. This is the big players working around me. If you want to punch sure there is all kinds of liquidity but it is very...

In my experience trading Liffe and Eurex (to a greater extent on Liffe) is the charts look good with lots of fluid volume throughout the day, however when you go trade you end up perplexed by bad fills. I think what goes on is the big players call each other and then report the trade to the...

The contract is only a few months old so you are not going to find long tern data on the future. There is lots of history on the index.

Not that I am in this predicament right now but what is the best instrument to hedge the dax with? Is it tech heavy enough that NQ is the best option? (Not likely but I thought I would throw it out there)

Well I just checked up on my paper trade and the prices are now May 1424 July 1423 Good thing I bought 1000 pretend spreads

I used to put in GTC orders at 4:14 so I could be first in the queue in the next morning. This worked really well so I never questioned it. However I noticed that the orders were often re routed so now I wait until 9:25 to place my orders, although usually it is the same thing I would have done...