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I believe the relationship between TSLA and (RYT or VOT) is largely spurious. There's nothing about TSLA that you would expect to influence those two ETF's so I wouldn't place much emphasis on the correlation (which is high over two years and falls off over the previous year). Indeed, TSLA is...

Thank you for your well-reasoned reply.

Good question. Why drop a grand a year on data fees if you don't have to? Hope you get some thoughtful replies from some of ET's more mature members.

Please elaborate. Are the problem(s) with Win8 about usability, stability, other?

It's a nice setup, but I just don't like being short gold. Any whiff of a crisis and I don't think any spread will hedge a jump in gold.

They are still ETF's and their basket may include futures or options to gain the leverage. Credit risk isn't so much the issue with leveraged ETFs as the roll yield can impact long term holdings.

I haven't heard of credit risk with ETF's since they generally hold a basket of securities. But ETN's (Exchange Traded Notes) are structured with unsecured debt and have credit risk of default. I'm not aware if it's ever happened, though.

Yes, IB supports this. It's called a Conditional Order and you can specify the date & time.

I hope the Printer-Friendly view we had in the prior generation of this forum software comes back in a future release. It's a feature that I see in just about every other forum I participate in and is more convenient than the copy/paste workaround.

Maybe I can help refine your questions to be more specific and prompt more discussion on this interesting subject. Spreads (in the context of trading one product against another) generally fall into one of five categories: 1) Seasonal, 2) Relative Strength, 3) Mean Reversion, 4) Volatility...

The options spread you suggest is a vol dispersion spread and I usually see it with OTM options and put on for a small credit. If you're trading spreads based on relative strength (the spread widening), then an option spread is a more capital efficient play than the outrights.

I think of spreads on equities (stocks, ETFs) as spreads of last resort. I would always prefer to trade a futures spread because futures are much more capital efficient and more tax efficient than equities. When I trade equities spreads, it's because of the variety of opportunities that I...

When I enter spread orders on IB, for these non-guaranteed orders involving stocks/ETFs, I use a "Limit+Market" order. When the limit price is reached for the spread, the first leg is executed as a limit order. Then after the first leg is filled, the second leg is executed as a market order...

CQG is a bit more expensive than eSig. Does CQG provide better charting for spreads, or is it better suited for intraday trading because of its spread DOM?

Is there any market you would spread NG against?

"Spread traders live to trade another day."

Murray, in previous articles you have stated that one cannot perform intermarket analysis with percentages or ratios using backadjusted continuous contracts. How does this data series limitation compare with your current Tradestation system?

Good stuff. One more question: Your website indicates that NinjaTrader works with the TD Ameritrade brokerage. Does this include ThinkOrSwim?

Are you sure about that? The news reports I've seen indicated there is no supply pressure coming from OPEC countries and Saudi has announced it is not changing production in response to lower prices. I haven't checked any of the industry reports on supply, so you may very well be right.