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Have to say, I'm expecting this to reverse Sunday/Monday. Maybe they'll pop it Sunday night to take out a few more shorts / suck in a few more longs. ES needs to see 1225 in normal market hours IMO. Having said that the Dow has been stuck in a 200 pt range for 7 or 8 days now. If that cracks...

Guys, thanks for the replies. You talk a lot of jargon that frankly I am unfamiliar with. I've many years' experience trading futures but only with IB hence I have zero relationship with anybody, account manager or otherwise! You know what IB are like: don't call us, we don't want to speak...

Yeah, because patriotism is bad, right? Jesus. You believe in democracy presumably? How democratic is a nation state? Not very, but at least there is a semblance of democracy. What would you have in its place? A supranational institution like the EU? Government by technocracy? How...

Please, could somebody explain this for me. IB's policy is not to allow trading on physically-settled products beyond FND. Their explanation to me is as follows: "The first day on which a notice of intent to deliver a commodity in fulfillment of a futures contract can be made by the...

Yep, well done, good call. :)

lol, elite, good one. On the few occasions when I have been watching AAPL's earnings, IIRC they came out after 4.15pm. But what does it matter? If they come out at 4.14pm then one nanosecond later the QQQQs are going to move in proportionate lockstep. Or do you think you can beat the QQQQs...

Why would you buy a put before earnings are released? Isn't that what they call gambling? Chances are high that they're going to beat (when was the last time that they didn't?) and there will be a whole load of euphoria which could last a few days (or more, who knows). I'd rather buy a put...

Oh dear. I have long ceased being surprised that there is such a disproportionately high number of arrogant unpleasant sarcastic people in the population of traders as opposed to the general public. There must be something about trading that brings out the worst in people. Lucky for you...

Thanks guys. Regarding the last point, which seems to have huge implications for trading: if there is no market maker obliged to make a market in these options, surely what follows is that when opening a position you cannot be certain that you will be able to close it either when you want to or...

Damn posted on the wrong thread :D

Thanks guys. Regarding the last point, which seems to have huge implications for trading: if there is no market maker obliged to make a market in these options, surely what follows is that when opening a position you cannot be certain that you will be able to close it either when you want to or...

Apologies for this double post, neither of which showed up in the thread list when I initially posted them.

Could you perhaps duplicate this issue on an IB paper trading account?

Hello there fellow gamblers sorry traders In the couple of days I have encountered what I thought were "missing" prices for ES options in IB. The quote lines were there but for particular contracts there were no prices. The missing prices were for *some* calls for expiry tomorrow. E.g...

Hello there fellow gamblers sorry traders In the couple of days I have encountered what I thought were "missing" prices for ES options in IB. The quote lines were there but for particular contracts there were no prices. The missing prices were for *some* calls for expiry tomorrow. E.g...

The trouble with the question ("is the ES rigged?") is that it doesn't define what it means to be rigged. Most probably anybody who claims a market to be rigged is somebody who believes the price is *not what it should be*. In other words, is the market wrong? You can say what you like about...