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nor could one afford to be involved unless you were doing business on a much larger level to be able to use details like this.. i trade butterflys, ratio backspreads in back months in a 20k account. all i'm trying to do is give myself the opportunity to generally sell expensive vol in a...

dumbing down is exactly what i was referring to when i said loss of flexibility to extract, manipulate and analyze data in anyway you want if it was accessed directly instead of through a web app.. i'm a total Noob so i'm only curious about these things.. I didn't mean to sound paranoid...

.. my question is there any depreciation cost for holding the tbt for a really long time

That's not pocket change!

if you allow access to your database and the guy is a big trader isn't there a liability of front running whatever trades he is modeling? or am i crazy thinking this..

you wonder what was going through that kids head..

I would imagine you would be able to secure your data through a good web application.. alot of the major retailers like Amazon do it.. if you had apps that generated the types of information that clients are requesting.. then you could serve the data through them securely.. right? i would...

exactly.. but i'm still learning how to use excel in such a way that i can make sense of any data at all! haha..

i've got a ratio backspread on the TBT for that exact reason.. if it stays down or goes lower.. i don't get screwed!

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i probably could have sold my Butterfly for alot of money this morning! All those calender ratio's i was talking about.. are all worth almost nothing now! meaning the back month got squashed so hard everything is worthless.. Even selling the aug 685 call and buying 3 july 20th 685 is...

sounds like pocket change.. haha i'm a dork... so basically if you were doing some analyic scan of history across that many symbols it would make sense to take the fifty Tb's but what about the stocks that you follow?

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where do you get historical options data? from expired contracts and their related price action volume volatility etc.. I have an IB account it doesn't come with it does it?

hi how are you.. i can relate .. haha but on the serious note instead of being MR. cool freak of nature guy who just comments randomly about gambling.. why not give us your two sense as to why a post earnings trade makes more sense? unless your of course way to cool for us and think that you...

"Moreover, for hedging the ETNs such large positions must be taken on VIX futures that the ETN market now leads the VIX futures that they are supposed to track." " The result has been an evident increase in the volatility of VIX futures since 2009. If this increase in statistical volatility...

what i got out of this read is.. that these new instruments and their related trades in the futures has created a wild west in arbitrage between the less informed investor trying to hedge and invest in vol and the more informed arbitrageur taking advantage of the loss due to roll cost and as...

is anyone familar with this instrument.. things like.. if you take a permanent position what are your risks? is there a roll cost.. is the expense ratio high .. what is the expense ratio compared to other instruments .. bottom line is its a short instrument what are the related carry costs of...

true no base fee with these rates attracted me .. how do you beat that? plus you can trade futures, currency, etc etc etc.. United States - Smart Routed: <=10,000 Monthly Contracts Example Tier Commissions Minimum Per Order minimum Premium => USD 0.10...