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More vitriolic spew with absolutely no facts or even suggestions for fixes. There are always people willing to take your money--both in the pit and electronically. It's hardly fair to say that "THEY" (whoever they are) are taking advantage of electronic markets any more than they're taking...

By the way, stock "XYZ" (aka AAPL) has earnings on Wed. IV is *unbelievably* important.

You've only got two of the three opinions necessary to trade options: 1) Direction - Up 5+ 2) Timing - 45 days 3) Volatility - ? Earnings in the next 45 days? Acquisition possibilities? FDA approval? How does the IV relate to the historical volatility--higher, lower, trend? If you...

More important--as soon as you blow out your account, your *broker* is required to cover your losses. (At least until they can recover from you. IF they can recover anything from you) Now why should a broker extended you credit to do something really stupid when they have to pay for it? This...

The concept that private currency would be "inflation protected" is pretty naive. There's nothing stopping them from printing more certificates, or lowering their reserve basis. Best of all, the Liberty Dollar folks just need to pack up their bags and move to a country without an extradition...

You never made your point. How are electronic markets a *scam*? How is CBOT scamming us? It's not CBOT's job to keep electronic and pit markets in sync--it's the people who trade them and arb between them. If anything, you got scammed by experienced bond traders, like yourself, who were able...

The web site you posted lists the most expensive .tv domain sold so far is $8,000--for a two letter domain (which are selling for 6 figures in the .com arena) No .tv domain cracks the top 100. The only domains going in the 5 figure area are sex sites. Perhaps if you had...

I think you're missing the fact that the two markets are independent. The trades that occur electronically occur with a completely different set of people than the pit trades. They have a different bid/ask, a different volume, a different last price. In other words, if no one is interested in...

Why is CBOT a crook? Why are brokers crooks? Neither of them did anything wrong here. CBOT simply provided a means for people to trade. What they traded and at what prices is up to them! Brokers had nothing to do with this scenario at all. When 86,000 bond futures were unleashed within...

I can't wait to spend medium 5 figures to have a fun!

You cannot combine ECBOT futures contracts into a combo, unfortunately--TWS rejects it. So, you have to trade each leg individually.

Maybe there's a bug in the paper trader? I really don't know how you're getting what you're getting. :-) Nope, that's not it--paper trade shows me the correct bid/ask spread for the combo too. Here's what I show right now

I'll verify tomorrow when the market is active and let you know.

The easiest way is to go to a new market data line and enter the root symbol--in this case 'ZC'. When the menu asking you what ZC is pops up, select "Comb". You can then put together any calendar you'd like on that future. You can also create generic combos (soy vs corn for example) by...

Right click on the data line and select Contract Info->Description Make sure that matches your expectations. I have this spread and the Jul/Nov Soy spread on my TWS at all times, and I've not seen this problem.

I just meant you need to be an IB client in order to access Trader Workstation.

IB's TraderWorkstation can do this, although that's not really free. stockcharts.com claims they might do it in the future. http://stockcharts.com/help/doku.php?id=support:working_with_sharpch#can_i_create_spread_ Here's how I chart the pairs. I generally look at them as line charts...

What are the bid/ask spreads like on ICE? IB still doesn't have them and the spreads on the NYMEX softs are horrible.

Pair trading is practically identical to spread trading. If you think spread trading is "lame", you haven't been trading very long. Options traders, Futures traders, and Equity traders all spread between strikes, deliveries, and even contracts. Hogs spread against Corn is no different from PBY...

If there's little or no time premium left in the options, they will almost certainly be exercised. Think of it this way--if the holder of a long option keeps it, he's out the value of the premium in cash. If he exercises, he's posting a performance bond which he can earn interest on...