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Rick santoli (CNBC CBOT reporter) said yesterday that it was virtually %100. However he did mention that option trading activity was suggesting that major players are hedging there bets in case the fed doesn't co-operate.

First off why do you want to trade FX options? I just checked my Interactivebrokers account and it appears that you can get good quotes with a tight spread if you want to trade with them even though the volume is low. I just opened the options analytics window and it shows the greeks calculated...

How about this, assuming you have a bit of money left from school open up an IB account with the minimum deposit of $3000 dollars. You will use this account to trade ES (mini S&P500) in the overnight market. Make sure your out before 8am eastern. And don't stay awake all night use bracket orders...

Just after I posted I got another bulletin saying everything was fine and I got a fill for a half tick on the open.

IB just sent me a notice (7:55pm eastern) that e-cbot is unavailable. Anyone know why?

I am 99% sure that there is no offset with IB What is the value of the spread leveraged to? Domestic consumption, shipping rates, storage?

Right now I play competive hockey for $20 a game gas money(WOAA Senior Hockey). I would expect to support myself by trading. I think playing hockey would be a great way to meet people while I was there.

How hard would it be for an English speaking Canadian to go to Poland for the Winter to play division 2 or 3 hockey and trade an IB account through a high speed internet connection? With the cost of living there I could probably have a lot of fun.

I was being deliberately harsh to drive home a point. The media's use of the term "mad cow" and the endless showing of that same british holstein gives the public a bad impression of farming and exaggerates the risk that BSE poses to the public. You can understand why farmers do not like the...

Maybe the nice looking young lady who was on cnbc's "top traders under 30" segment it taking your money

If you do not want to sound like an un-educated buffoon please do not refer to BSE as "Mad Cow" disease. It shows a total lack of understanding of BSE and shows a lot of ignorance.

"The Alchemy of Finance" by George Soros is a must read for any trader. Another great book is "Big Deal" by Bruce Wasserstein, CEO of Lazard freres

I don't think you understand how people usually use options, european or American style. Very few options are exercised, meaning that whether are european or american only effects valuation, not the ability to limit risk. For example if you are long eurocurrency at 1.200 and buy a european style...

Heres something to think about. Has anyone tried using a modified dow theory to trade different wheat grades? For example you could looking to go long on cbot wheat because it crossed it's 200 moving average but you wait to pull the trigger until kcbot wheat cross it's 200 moving average to...

I have never traded oil futures, but from watching them on my IB account I would much rather trade IPE than NYMEX. With IPE the price levels mean something and there is much more electronic trade. With NYMEX all you doing is lining up to give away your scalp.

I only watch the call in shows when Ross Healy is on. He is the "Great One" of Canadian investing.

The best mentor I have ever had is George Sorors. I have never meet him but his book "The alchemy of finance" is fantastic. And he has certainly made money over the years. The only other example of someone who has made money and I have read there books in "Crazy" Jim Craemer. "Confession of a...

It just got in on a Eurodollar spread trade long dec 06 and short march march 07 for a credit of a 0.010 hoping to sell at 0.00.

Here a thought on pit trading. On the Chicago exchanges you have electronic trading beside pit trading, on the European exchanges you have a "small trade" system and a "block trade" system. It seems that the very large players that have the ability to move the market cannot operate in a fully...

If you want to learn when the market is most likely to trend then try trading a strategy that requires the market to be in congestion. It will give you a real sense of what the open, economic reports and earning announcements will to to a market.