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Hi riskarb, thx again for your help. Do you know what would be the margin requirements to put up this position: Short 100 SPX April 1150 puts at 12 Is there a formula? My broker is IB

Riskarb, thanks a lot, I am gonna try to put up this position. Also you're saying selling 50 SPX puts @1150 for my example would be the same thing that I propose? I mean is it exactly the same in terms of the premium received and the greeks?

Let's say I want to sell covered calls on ES using SPX calls instead of ES calls. When selling covered calls on a stock it's easy to figure out the amount of hedge i.e when buying 100 shares of a stock you'd need to sell 1 call against it. Let's say I want to buy 100 ES @1140 and sell SPX...

www.stockfetcher.com Only 8.95/months EOD data I am a subsriber.

Can anyone suggest a divergency scanner (RSI/price, CCI/price, MACD/price) for equities and/or indices. Daily or intraday basis. Thanks in advance.

I get YM options quotes via IB, dunno why everyone cant find them. Can trade them too

Also I am using my method not only on daily but on 30 min and higher time frames. (60, 120) Lower time frames arent efficient due to slippage and commiss.

1) Draw a daily line chart of the YM/ES spread 2) Draw RSI (2) of the spread 3) Draw 34 ema of the spread 3) Go long (buy YM/short ES) when RSI (2) goes below 10 4) Close position when spread touches 34 ema Reverse the rules for shorting the spread (RSI(2) goes above 90) Tips: If after...

I wish it was by size

Thx a lot def, appressiate your help

Tried to look up INTC option trading on BOX, IB asked me for mkt subscription, but I cant find where to subscribe

now ES last trade 1040 down -4 as per IB, i thought close was 1040.25 , not 1044

I had trigger method set at "Default" which is corresponding to Double Bid/Ask

IB is running ok now , but stops don't work. Last week stops didnt work either (at least twice I had a problem). Regarding H2O issue.....I think IB recently warned that SSL connection should be unchecked from now on in order to log on.

Stops didnt work for me three times in the row. Last stop I had a 1.2558 sell on EurUSD futures (2 mins ago) ...price went thru it and my stop never got activated. Had to close manually. Thx God I was watching my position.

Thx sascha

Does anyone know how many ES contracts can a Globex trader open at once? I thought it was 250, but someone mentioned to me that the limit was increased to 400.

I have a universal acct with IB which includes stocks, options, futures. To trade currency futures you need a regular futures account (like one you use to trade ES). To get a quote on Eurofutures for example -type EUR in your TWS. Choose Futues and then Mar 2004, then choose Globex. Margin is...

When I tell people I am a home trader they think I work as real estate agent :D

I find it much better to trade FX futures already available at IB, spread is 1-2pips and executions are great. Also, margin is $1250 for $125000 worth for instance. I.e 1:100.