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It is way easier than that even for retailers and has been discussed on this forum many times. The trick involves an options trade. It is not that complicated. You don't need to have the black bealt in options like MrMuppet and others on this forum... My username will give you a hint how it is...

There are several ways to achieve this kind of borrowing yield. One would be to short T-Bills and hedge the interest rate risk... IB seems to offer that if you borrow at least 5 million. https://ibkr.info/article/3419 With 1 % margin that would be an extremly cheap way to borrow assuming they do...

Bone is a sponsor focusing on futures spreads: https://www.elitetrader.com/et/threads/spreadprofessor-futures-spreads.317119/page-44#post-5651085 Due to margin issues with many brokers he advises only to use certain brokers that calculate the risk appropiatly. Couldn't find the thread though...

I agree. It seems like for futures you can get a great broker even in the retail world. That broker will use a decent risk management system that doesn't cause you any troubles. Regarding stocks, options and international markets I haven't found a broker that beats IB yet. The ones I found will...

No doubt there arb opportunities galore in the crypto space. You could even make tons of money oper the course of years and still loose it to some 17 year old who hacked the exchange or your wallet. There many kinds of risks I can take in order to make money - trading this unregulated market is...

citing JackMorgan in the title here from this discussion thread: https://www.elitetrader.com/et/threads/the-right-ib-order-type-for-arbitrage-attempt.366333/page-2 Seriously, this could be a good learning experience for everybody if we share approaches that seemed to have potential but didn't...

o_O:wtf::D That's actually a great comment. I'm gonna make a new thread out of it...;):D

As a european I can assure you it doesn't have to do with any of your politcians. Here in Europe is inflation is crazy at the moment as well as in asia. The war has hugely influenced energy prices. Furthermore russia and ukraine produce huge amounts of grain in peaceful times... So that supply...

Yes. That's why I tend toward Polygon. I need to find out whether it would be possible to access their API with multicharts. Polygon and IQfeed both offer > 10 years of minute data but IQfeed only offers 180 days of tick data. Polygon seems to offer 10-15 years of 1 second data which would...

Your are right. If I can not backtest or trade it in real time it won't work. Both things need to be feasable. Regarding the storing of the dataset: What I learned so far is that it is way more expensive to download the data in order to "own it" and work with. But maybe I just haven't found the...

May I ask what timeframe you chose in order to not crash your engine? Backtest the entire market on 1 min timeframe for a period of 1 month or 1 year? How long did it take your software/hardware to produce results?

Awesome - so much feedback! @earth imperator: yes, exactly. I will check out ORATS. Thank you! @angrytrader: Honestly, I didn't expect it to be that difficult as many trading softwares show you scans like "biggest % winners" and so on. It took me a while to understand that the real time scan...

The US stock market but "only" Nasdaq stocks would be fine as well...

just a short feedback: It didn't work because IB puts a trade cap on the stock. Buying and selling often occurs 1-2% away from the last price. I assume that is the reason. So you always have to call in and ask them to lift the cap. Then the trade goes through. Problem is by the time I finally...

I have a stock trading strategy in mind which I would like to backtest and trade. This proves to be rather difficult as I need to scan the entire stock market for a pattern on 1 min bars in real time. Regarding the backtest it seems equally difficult to find the proper approach as a realistic...

Hi guys, I am trying an arbitrage pairs trade. Long/short the stock and its ADR. Ironically the stock is less at it’s home exchange in Europe than the ADR in the US. The ADR leg works fine but closing/opening the equivalent leg in the illiquid stock in Europe crushed me last time. The bid/ask...

Hi guys, trying to make sense of different IB order types: "Sweep-to-fill orders are useful when a trader values speed of execution over price. A sweep-to-fill order identifies the best price and the exact quantity offered/available at that price, and transmits the corresponding portion of...

Maybe with OTM options ? 20:1 is a lot of leverage. In a liquid stock option you might have a good chance to get the maximum amount of leverage. CFD have a high interest rate priced into them. Could become costly if you are an active trader...

That is associated with quite some work...Tax law for a german llc is not that easy so you have to pay to outsource it. In addition to that: real time data fees are way more expenssive for Pro users which adds up and makes your break even more difficult to reach

seems like a decent source for retail... Basic version is free and it is based on actual borrowing activity... S3 Partners seems to be good but that is for institutions and way more expenssive