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It means that was the closing price for the option. It also means that particular option has not traded yet.

I was able to log into their paper trading account with their latest build (4/24/2013).

I wonder if the delta you get when you press "Load my chain" is the delta of the option when you opened your position?

You may have inadvertently checked the delta when the electronic market was still trading. If you check the delta during the weekend, it should not change between accounts.

Yes

I use CintaNotes. It is a free, lightweight and user-friendly note taking application. You can have links to files/images on your local disk in your notes. Supports web clipping and more.

60 Minutes had a nice segment about China's real estate situation on Sunday.. You can see on the video on the CBS website: http://www.cbsnews.com/video/watch/?id=50142082n.

It seemed that PFGBest was a Ponzi scheme after all. Wasendorf was intercepting the NFA bank statement requests. It was only when the NFA requested electronic verification that the scheme fell apart. See full store at...

Knowing when to get out of a position is my edge. It is the most important skill I have honed over my many years of trading.

This is a realistic goal if the instrument you are trading has the volatility. The most important thing is to take what the market gives you and never hold a position because you didn't hit your profit target. Always limit your loss to a small amount so your daily losses don't overwhelm you. You...

MLK holiday. Exchanges are closed.

If that happens, then you may not have an edge. It is much easier to overcome a small loss than a large loss. My experience has taught me to take many small profits (hit singles) instead of trying to hit a home run. Taking what the market gives me instead of what I think I can get was the...

Any experienced coder can create a program that will parse your HTML file and send the proper trading commands to IB using their API. If the HTML output is fairly straight forward, then the programming task will not be that difficult.

Here is the holy grail :) If the instrument you are trading does not move as you expect it, get out immediate. It is better to exit early and reenter once proven right then to hold on and pray. This was the best tip I got from reading the Phantom of the Pits by Art Simpson.

Yes, it is possible. There are plenty of open source HTML parsers out there. The only problem is that you will have to create your own interface software (HTML->TWS API), so I am not sure if this method is going to help you.

The only place where NetBeans out shines Eclipse is in GUI creation. NetBeans has a very good Visual GUI editor.

Here is my logic: A game of flipping coins. You have two coins to flip. If either coin turns up heads, you win. You flip the first coin, and its a head, you win. The second coin flip does not matter. Your first win has a 50% probability of winning. Second try, your first coin flip is a tail. You...

For two trading methods with no correlation to each other, the probability of winning when both signals are agreed upon is 60% that's because the probability of multiple non-correlated systems is the highest probability of those systems. For 60% + 60%, you get 60%. For 100% + 50%, you get 100%...

The two currencies are highly correlated (90%+). Since I don't trade spread, I focus on the EUR instead of the CHF (EUR has better volume). Check this link to see how these pairs track intraday, daily and weekly: http://www.mataf.net/en/tools/correlation