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Don't list every transaction, just transfer the totals from the 1099 from your broker.

Schindler Trading accepts IRAs. But, like you say, there has to be a 3rd party custodian. You can use whomever you like, but several of our investors have used Retirement Accounts Inc. (www.retirementaccountsinc.com). It's pretty easy to open the IRA with them and the fees are $83 per year...

Thanks, Ellokn. I appreciate your kind words and good wishes. Good luck in your trading!

Schindler Trading pays their published 50¢ per side (plus exchange and NFA fees) rate. That's a good rate.

Without having to pay anything or having to register and be accredited, I'd say IASG.com is the best website for following hedge fund managers. IASG only covers a small subset of the hedge funds out there, but it is the most accessible of the websites I've seen.

Thanks Blackguard and Cwjcntr! Do you get my monthly performance update email? Let me know if you don't and would like to.

About $6 million. Here's a graph of assets under management (thanks to IASG.com):

A potential Japanese client was asking me about the correlation between the Schindler program and the Quadriga GCT USD program. I prepared the following spreadsheet for him and thought ETers might find it interesting: www.schindlertrading.com/include/content/uploads/SchindlerQuadriga.xls...

Yes, the difference is due to the continuous contract adjustment. Prophet uses forward-adjusting to eliminate the gap when rolling forward to the new contract month. Forward adjusting means that recent prices look completely different than the true market prices (notice the negative prices on...

Did you take advantage of it? The kink is gone now.

I think I've seen talk of an Amibroker adapter for Wealth Lab. Take a look at the Automated Trading forum on the Wealth Lab site.

The VIX is calculated from the near two contracts months for the SPX options. It is possible to arbitrage the VIX futures versus the SPX options strips (all the various strike prices for a given expiration date) that will be used to calculate the VIX when that VIX future settles. It is...

The IB Webpage for the CBOE Futures Exchange still says that information on the futures is "Coming soon!". I'm glad you were able to hunt down the VIX futures information on the margin requirement page. It looks like IB hasn't updated their entire website yet.

Looking at the farthest out Nov contract, it looks like the market is saying the base level of the VIX should be about 20.85 (mid point of the bid/offer). With the nearer contracts and the cash VIX below this, we are temporarily in a more-quiet-than-usual market. We should expect volatility to...

Thanks for the symbol Bebe. You're a better source for IB information than IB's website!

Did you know that on Friday the VIX futures contract will start trading? You'll be able to make a straightforward bet on overall market volatility. For VXGN volatility specifically, you might want to go long a long-dated, delta neutral straddle. You buy both a call and a put. All else...

Take a look at Retirement Accounts Inc. (RAI) (www.retirementaccountsinc.com). They have a self directed IRA that allows hedge fund holdings. Schindler Trading has IRA investors who are using RAI as their custodian. RAI has a list of approved investments that Quadriga could get on if it...

Is there a YM pit? I thought it was only electronically traded. Are you talking about the large Dow contract?

From working at Fermilab I recall that there is an active prairie restoration project. Part of this includes annual prescribed burns. Maybe this is what you saw the smoke from? The prescribed burns recreate lightning (and Native American) fires that would sweep across the plains. I'm no...

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