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Here it is the continous compounded rate Oh. It is 5.075%. Then i guess it makes sense

5.75%. Where????? Did you calculated yourself or use IB's rate. If you use IB's rate, which one? Annualized or contious compound? If you really see that rate on IB, can you do a manually calculation to see if it is consistent. I see the opposite. Nothing over 5% except ISRG this month.

I am trying to say i cant find zero dividend EFP that pays more than 5% ( i use the contiunously compounded annualized rate) this week except ISRG. But i dont want ISRG because the size is too big and they are almost limit up everyday which means you will be suffering mark to market losses. On...

Think about the mark to market risk and the interest you might have to pay if the stock goes up. This theard can help u i guess. http://www.elitetrader.com/vb/showthread.php?s=&threadid=102119

What's so special about being able to earn interest on your futures account? You deserved it anyway. Is just brokers are being cheap and doesnt promote you can fund it with t-bills. There are risks with selling EFP, if the stock doubles overnight, then you are screwed. If u are in...

Or if you decide not to buy back the 2K EFP and hope the futures position is going to turn around, you can go down to a couple of hundred bucks before they liquidate your EFP position. (If i understand correctly, EFP maintanece margin is 5%. So basically you can go down to 500 bucks in your...

I understand your concern about the 20%. But even with the 20% you can still sell 10K worth of EFP. Let's see all the potential outcome after you sell the 10K EFP with 5K maintanence margin of your futures position. If you make money on the futures position then you have no problem, your cash...

True My point is if you have free cash, why does a 20% margin bother you? You dont need leverage anyway

0.9 EUR/USD spread, what's wrong with it? Is even cheaper than CME. Cant complain about that

But the real problem with EFPs are that foreign guys can only choose stocks that pays no dividend, otherwise the net return will be cut by a lot because of foreinger's dividend tax (30%). That means the choice of the available of EFP is really small.

It makes no difference if you are not going to use more than 4 to 1 leverage. So, i think it doesnt affect futures guys. And if u are a stock guy, you should not sell EFP if you are already borrowing money from IB anyway. In conclusion, i think it makes no difference whatever the margin...

the root is USD not DX

How come TS shut down their support forum when there is a problem?

I can see the interest rates trading though. Seems like just the grains that is having trouble. I guess they finally realized the bonds are too much of a revenue driver that they decide to put it in a better server.

Young: I am not sure what kind of fundamentals analysis you do but i have heard a similar arguement when crude was at 40 bucks. Back then, selling 60 bucks calls seems like free money. Guess what? Katrina came, the pennies you collect on the options results of the options being 10 bucks in...

Will CBOT wheat (Any months) trade at a premium to beans? And will they trade in the teens by year end. Please share your thoughts.

Wheat will eventually trade back in the 3-4 bucks level., Beans will trade back in 5-6. But u just dont know when. It could be 1 yr, it could be 5

Care to elaborate on the reason on shorting? And what's the trade management plan? Add as it goes up or stop at some point?

Where did it say it use the Fed fund as benchmark. I still see overnight LIBOR as the benchmark. But if this is really the case, i guess that explains why the EFP is 0.2% lower across the board. I think IB's customers should really consider EFP if they have excess cash and dont like earning a...

What's wrong with paying less interest?