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If you are long such a spread, i.e. Net Debit (Bought Aug and Sold May), then you should be clearly Bullish and vice versa. This could be part of a position hedge as well, i.e. you could be short the stock and long the spread (Net Debit) to offset losses from the stock upside.

Calendar Spread, check $320 20-Aug-21 calls as well, close volume & activity (6.5k contracts). He/She is probably spreading $320 between May-21 and Aug-21, who is on the debit side and who is on the credit side, it's anyones' guess

A complicated and controversial topic. I will tell what I do believe. Volatility of an instrument is how it's recent returns compare to the average returns (Of a specific longer period). There is no such thing as an absolute volatility, it has to be related to time periods. So if a certain...

You are tempting me :):). SoyMeal, Platinum, Palladium, SoyOil, Live Cattle, Hogs, etc... But you are right, there are more liquid native spreads than I initially thought. I thought that it's Corn, Crude and NatGas are the ones with very liquid spreads. Turns out I am wrong, there are more.

Not true. The underlying commodity itself was not liquid as well, so goes without saying that the spreads were lacking liquidity, especially in 2008 and the massive liquidations/deleveraging which was happening back then. But anyway, it was my choice of market & expiry, true.

Agree, I shouldn't have generalized, but lack of liquidity in futures spreads is the norm rather than the exception. It's true that the likes of Corn and Crude Oil spreads are very liquid, but a lot others still are not, e.g. Palladium, Platinum, Gold, Silver, SoyMeal, etc..

Check Coinmarketcap.com - https://pro.coinmarketcap.com/ There is a free package there as well

Check Tradestation, can go to $1.5 per contract per side (If you are eligible for their zero commission as a US customer/resident).

Are you on fixed or tiered plan with IB? If on fixed, switch to tiered.

You can also look at the US M0, M1 & M2 supply as a % of GDP and M2/M1 ratio (Gives you a bit of understanding of how leveraged the economy is). Of course M3 supply is never published (Since it will be astronomical compared to M2). Here is the M2 to GDP ratio @0.87 right now as of end of Q3...

Don't think you will find this in real-time anywhere for free. Best shot is to see EOD: https://ycharts.com/indicators/us_total_market_capitalization Sitting at 190% right now. This indicator works best under normal monetary circumstances, but since 2008/2009, we are in unprecedented &...

This URL stopped publishing the data since 2017. Apparently they didn't want to miss-lead investors anymore, lol

IB will not allow the physical delivery to happen (Just like what they do with commodities), there will be a cut-off date for longs and shorts where you will need to close out your position before, otherwise IB will auto-close the position for you to avoid physical delivery. Search for BAKKT on...

Maybe the best Trading Strategy is not to Trade, just a thought

Yes, they expire on 18 Mar 21 and if you want to maintain your position, you will need to roll it out to the next expiry (i.e. close the March one and buy the April one or a later dated contract)

The ETN was actually dead in terms of volume until November 2020 (When the bull run in Bitcoin started), only then it started seeing volume coming in. The tendency of people to counter trade clear trends never stops to amaze me.

I am not sure if your analysis is correct or not, but since 3 weeks back, I can clearly see a typical "Time Arbitrage" happening in Bitcoin spot against the futures market. To elaborate, imagine that you have massive buy orders for Bitcoin spot over the weekend, what do you do? You load up on...

Someone who is out of their mind actually did this at exactly the wrong time, lol...

Everyone thought that real-estate is a very safe investment (Including the large investment banks and almost all the investment community) only to discover that it is not. Bubbles can be created around any investment vehicle if you provide enough liquidity/leverage and the needed financial...

What is VXXY?