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Out at 1295 at the 10:05 bar. Extremely impatient on my futures trades. (I primary trade options) Trying to work on this

Moving SL to 1293.5

L 1293.25 TP@1297.5 SL@1289.25

I am trying to get ideas of where to park my brokerage account cash in order to squeeze out a little more return? I am assuming most have it in t-bills resulting in probably the smallest haircut but thought I would ask. Thanks in advance.

For anyone that cares, TDAmeritrade (TOS) is suppose to be testing pairs trading for futures as I type this and might be out with a release this month. Legging into inter-market spreads has been a pain for me while I am trying to learn this craft.

Closed small down gap from Friday at 1259.50

House GOP's turn to speak now.

Obama talking about payroll taxes

Quad witching refers to the number of products that expire on the same day. Today is quad meaning that the following four expire today: index futures index options stock options stock futures expire

Bouncing off previous day RTH high

Thanks for the disturbing mental picture

Reread MKTrader's post above to see that it really wasnt a 94% rate after all the breaks / loopholes.

VTrader might want to remove MF Global as a Clearing Firm choice... http://vtraderpro.com/Partners.php

So watch out for AM settled weeklies everyone.

Can’t speak to RUT but SPX options stopped trading today but settle based upon the opening, SET, price of each component tomorrow morning. http://www.cboe.com/Products/indexopts/spx_spec.aspx This is posted on CBOE’s website. http://www.cboe.com/data/Settlement.aspx Note that...

For anyone that wanted to know I figured it out, makes perfect sense actually. 2*/PLJ2-/GCJ2

For futures and FX, yes.

Is it possible to chart the difference between two contracts using different ratios? Example: Long 2 April Platinum and Short 1 April Gold?

I use both TOS and IB for my options trading. I wanted to point out that the IB commission rates do not include exchange fees like magmiv mentioned above. If you trade certain index products like SPX then you have the normal commission rate plus .44 for premium >= to 1.00 or .35 for premium <...

Thanks for the explanation. I have noticed the same for OEX and SPX as you mentioned. Regarding IB not allowing the orders, it must just be the logic in their compliance checks.