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It's not crypto hate. People here hate themselves for missing the boat. Another bunch of sheep you forgot is the " I won't touch anything that is not regulated and trades on IB with a 6ft pole" - crowd. These will wait until the financial service providers will establish products and...

sometimes I wonder whether the chart monkeys think about what they are actually trading at all. Why is it so baffling that the moves happen in the timezone that has the triggers? EU - recession, Ukraine War, commodity squeeze...all that happens during the EU - session which is the US overnight...

It looks like you're really deep down the rabbit hole. And I mean really fking deep. So deep that the sun doesn't shine for you because you have nothing else but your work. Your entire self worth is tied to that which makes your life a living hell since emotions are extremely volatile for you...

hm...gamma is not the problem here. He could easily sell 3m and hedge gamma with cheap weaklies. But when the hammer drops, vol explodes on the 3m and you can't do much unless you've got a vertical hedge

I mean, I don't get the question. If you want to have delta exposure, trade the futures or the ETF. If you trade options there is no single scenario where you are always flat vol unless you trade a synthetic forward...but then you better trade the underlying anyways. Vertical: Spot moves to...

Props are not just about funding. You share the tech and the volume tier of the entire group which is in itself a huge advantage

check out ARB Trading Group. They have divisions world wide and actually come from STIRs market making via spreads. They should fit you well, on top of that they actually survived and got bigger whereas most of the other props either went down the drain or turned into education providers.

Basically #1

There are only two ways to make money in trading: 1. Harvest risk premium aka. holding something that has unattractive risks for the majority of the players and getting paid for it 2. Find cheap convexity aka hold something you don't lose a lot with in the majority of outcomes but get paid...

the issue is the data from IB. They are not realtime, but 2-30ms snapshots, so you actually don't test your system on the real market. Crap in, crap out

As much as I could get for about 0.5% p.a. Put it into a carry trade and buy a one way ticket to Africa in case the counterparty defaults

Lol, I guess that's the equivalent of the bucket of pressurized air the mechatronics apprentice has to get from the warehouse

Holy crap! The lack of knowledge is mind blowing sometimes when it comes to trading leveraged financial products. Do people even read the contract specs? https://www.theice.com/products/30/FCOJ-A-Futures You'd have to pick up your delivery at the licensed warehouses. A futures exchange is no...

Unfortunately no

questions?

crap in, crap out. does that ring a bell?

this. Thinking that you somehow get a shortcut to profits is delusional. Profitable traders perfected their craft in the trenches, no exceptions

newb traders are always getting rekt. Someone has to pay the bills

thinking that you can see on a chart what institutions and big players do is a pipe dream. if you want to know how markets work, read exchange manuals, learn order types and put the pieces together

There are a couple of dozens of SMART routers out there, every router has different functionality and purposes. Do you want to SMART route to the cheapest venue, the fastest execution, do you want your orders to be routed to dark pools, do you want a SMART router to scrape the invisible midpoint...