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Hi everybody, I need some help with finding a good mobile solution for my trading. I am slowly starting to travel more and visiting different places, but I still want to do some trading, even when not at home. When trading home most of my trades are catching small swings in the most liquid...

nkhoi, I dont understand what you mean ?? I dont want to use multiple accounts, I want only my IB-account, but I want that it looks like the frontend that Mirus-futures is offering, which is Ninjatrader with Zenfire datafeed. So my question is can I trade my Interactive Brokers account with...

Hello, I am a futures scalper and until now I have used Interactive Broker's TWS as my trading platform. Now I have tested a demo account with Mirus Futures. The account offers a Ninatrader/Zenfire combination and I am very impressed. I really want to use now this combination for my...

Hi smcmahon83 and grg03002, thanks for these info, good stuff. I just played around a bit in my trading platform, checking T+S for the grains contracts. Wow, it really seems you can move some serious size in ZC, seems like this is the ES of grains, lol. Have a good start into the trading...

Hello, at the moment I am trading mostly energy futures (CL and NG) and currency futures (EUR, GBP, JPY). I would like to add grains to my repertoire and want to ask you more experienced grain traders some basic stuff: - How good is the liquidity in ZC, ZS and ZW ? How many contracts can...

This order ticket window is so annoying, if somebody knows how to turn this of please tell me ... :(

Hello all, I have a little problem with the TWS chart trader. For some markets, when I click the bid or ask price in the chart trader's quote panel, the order ticket appears, but I dont want this, I want to create the order directly from the quote panel, without the order ticket. Does someone...

Wow, trading 1 contract today feels like trading 3 contracts on normal days (whatever "a normal day" means for CL ...) !

Hi, looking for some help for my Interactive Brokers chart settings. When I select candlestick charts the positive candles appear green, the negative candles red. This is ok. But the shadow of each candle is white. I would like to change the IB chart setting so the shadows have same color...

Dear sculptor66, I like very much what you say here. I think this is very true. The night is the darkest before dawn. And after a period of darkness, we will be able to truly appreciate the sunshine and brightness.

Dear Ninna, I dont think you need money to help other people. You can do it without money. You can help the old man to carry his bags, you can just talk with somebody who needs a shoulder to lean on, you can bring lots of good things to the world without money. But money gives you power. It...

With the pill I will get happiness. For myself. Nothing will change in the world around me. It is like taking some heavy drugs that give you the illusion that everything is ok around you. Even if you live in a world of crap, hate and lies. With money, you have lots of power in your hands. You...

Hello, I never totally understood what costs I have to calculate if I short stocks for longer term. Lets say I want to short First Solar (FSLR) for a short position value of 100000 $. What will I have to pay for borrowing the shares that I am going short ? I am with IB and I checked the...

Hi Geez, thanks alot for your detailed answer. I wish you a succesful week, keep collecting the Dollars :cool: !!! Happy Greeting from Austria, CALLumbus

Hello Geez, first, sorry if my english sucks, I am from Austria ! Second, congratulations to your journal, it is a joy watching you trading, so much to learn, you are so friendly and never tired to explain things, thank you very much, you are No. 1 !!! Now after following your journal...

Coach, if there are such high margin requirements for writing SPX options, why dont you sell options on other contracts ? I just had a quick look on the eurex-website. For example, you could sell a Feb. CALL on the SMI (swiss market index), premium would be 130€ for the 8000-Call (SMI now...

Thanks, coach !

Wow ! Now thats what I call a quick reply ! Thanks, just21 and optioncoach. But I still dont understand how the performances of some CTAs are achieved. I have attached a pdf with Changs performance. For example in Sep 2004, he had a return of 4,13%. How is this possible, if he writes...

Hi, i have a question about writing SPX Options. Yesterday i wanted to sell a OTM-CALL (Feb) till i realized what a gigantic margin is required for this. So it seems to me that it is almost impossible to get a return of over 10% p.a. with such a strategy, because of those astronomic margin...