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I am new to investing in commodities. I like to get daily analysis on agriculture and energy, metal, etc. What are good websites? Thanks.

Can you tell me what those names stand for? Such as HDMS, Aux services, and primary. Thanks. Also, will it better to reduce latency by using ndc1 instead of cdc1? Thanks.

I mainly trade CME S&P future contracts. The connection table is enclosed. Currently the IB server is cdc1, and should I request to move to ndc1 for lower latency? I can choose a VPS nearby. Thanks.

Well, following the documentation, TWS connection to US central is cdc1.ibllc.com and its back up is cdc1_hb1.ibllc.com. But why is ndc1.ibllc.com showing up here in the network traffic? Thanks.

Hi, my current connection is to its cdc1, in Chicago. But a network traffic view shows, it is also connected to ndc1. Do its orders go to another server other than market data server?

guru, last week the stock market has sharp drawdown. I wish I have entered trailing stop on my long call stock options that is used to substitute stocks to speculate.

To those who have knowledge in IB TWS, what will happen to the trailing stop on stock options? The stock options are often illiquid, and do not have a market price. If the underlying stock is down $2 from high, and I like the system to sell the call option, is the trailing stop order on option...

VIX is not againt currency depreciation. The Black Lives Matter movement now spilled to Paris where some people even demand whites leave the city. The birth rate among blacks is much higher than whites and in the near future the Paris will indeed becomes a black city. It will be like South...

Hedge fund manager Kyle Bass is betting Hong Kong dollar crash. I cannot find any Hong Kong dollar currency options available on Interactive Brokers. Do you guys have some ideas how to make such bet?

Today, with the cov-19 surging in Arizona and anarchy in Seattle, I doubt the future of USA. I sold my entire SPY. But I am not sure what to do with the USD. I am looking for a stable currency.

what will be the most stable currency in the next few years?

Let us say, how to hedge using gold? Suppose my portfolio is $10K. Thanks.

do you guys have idea how to hedge the usd?

I don't trust gold. US treasury bond is essentially US dollar. I hope to hedge against a bunch of other currencies.

I am almost in SPY now. These past two weeks saw a steady decline of US dollar due to social unrest. I am worried that such decline is just the beginning. I like to hedge like these 1. using a basket of currencies. I don't know how to use dollar index as a tool 2. time frame is one year. By...

Sorry I didn't say it clearly in the first place. My purpose is to reduce the commission of the combo trade, possibly to use comission rebate. Is there a way to do that?

I trade QQQ bull calls spread. The recent three trades commissions are 29.37, 54.09, and 35.86. 25 contracts each trade. So, average commssion is (29.37+54.09+35.86)/3/(25*2)=0.79. Single leg commission is usually below 0.4 as i use Prefer Rebate under Smart routing. Therefore, the combo...

Interactive Brokers has a nice feature to allow you to enter the order for spread such as bull call/put. However, the commission is very high, often many times more than entering the leg individually. What is the best way to trade spread? Thanks.

It is easy to find earning estimate of S&P 500 index. But where to find the data for Nasdaq 100 index or QQQ? Thanks.

I got some data on the latency of IB quotes. Using their tick-by-tick market data request, the return data is about 26 millisecond delayed, including my VPS's 2 ms delay to their server. It is done by comparing the timestamp of the returning data and local PC's clock. However, its time stamp...