Search results

www.bankrupt.com :D

rs7: I just voted in the poll and you should be receiving some funds soon. You do take PayPal? :p Also: Could you provide an Idiot's Guide to the Bond Basis? How about the hedging T-Bonds and T-Bills with ZB and ZN? I'm sure others besides myself might appreciate that.

Maybe this is not what you're looking for, but couldn't you use Tradestation? Seems like it would take just a couple of minutes to set up a chart showing percent change of equity 1 minus percent change of equity 2.

Def -- Thanks. I'm just trying to figure out how SSFs work. Would it be possible to hedge a postion in a dividend-paying stock with SSFs? i.e. keep rolling over the short SSF position every 3 months and pocket the dividend?

Thanks.

I've seen several threads on SSFs & ex-dividend dates. It seems like Fair Value = Cash Price + Interest - Dividends. Question: If I'm short an SSF on a dividend-paying stock, do I have to PAY the dividend? Also: Does IB allow its customers to deliver the stock to cover a short SSF position...

Could some of you experienced (options) traders give me some input on this idea? I've been playing the NQ futures for about a year and haven't blown my account yet (knock on wood...). I find my best gains usually come when I hold a short position overnight and the NQ gaps down during that...

I was watching my NQ charts on Tradestation 6.0 when that spike happened around 10:11 AM. I heard a sound indicating my stop was hit on IB, and then a few seconds later (hard to say an exact number now, but probably > 2 s) my Tradestation charts started to catch up and printed the price of my...

I don't think you have to move shares between the two accounts. Just close this position for a profit when the spread moves back towards its normal range.

One more suggestion on the poetic/literary end: Pick up a copy of "Zen and the Art of Archery". Essential read for anyone who seeks to master a demanding craft. Another thought: I agree with the notion that trading is actually a truly BORING task. Most people are not going to understand how...

Some of them might love it, but not the exporters. Every percent the Euro gains raises their export prices by a percent, without increasing their profit at all.

Could this be related to that thread about how to lose $1,000,000 as quickly as possible? Maybe the thread originator was actually gearing up to lose 300 million, and didn't want to reveal the whole truth...

"it only cost me $35/year !!!???" Just for the record, you can get it A LOT cheaper these days. Check out www.simpleURL.com The guy who runs it is great and only charges $12/year. I've registered a few domains with him over the years and I don't regret it. Disclaimer: I have no...

Let's face it: Why should anybody except specialists and market makers know what the current short interest is? That would be a good indication of where the stock is going. :)

Everyone is negative about after-hours ES & NQ but I've had good results (Disclaimer: I'm a newbie trading since May 2002 and I'm down 2.5% overall.) Liquidity is, obviously, fairly low but variable. When the market wakes back up at 4:45 PM EST there are often a number of players in...

Allen, Thanks for the very interesting thread. One (newbie) question: How do you define "to fade"? garbo

Thanks. I just e-mailed the CME. That BBA site looks promising, but I couldn't wring any relevant data out of it. I also looked at the 3-month T-bill data. That brings up another question: Is the 3-month T-bill data possibly what I'm looking for? Eurodollar are defined as "time deposits...

aphie -- Very concise summary. Thank you. That one has been bugging me for a while. So it is possible for astute traders to make good money as long as we have mutual fund and pension companies hedging their stock portfolios in the futures market.

I'm enjoying this thread as a relative newcomer (IB account, 4+ months averaging about 2 trades a day, so far I'm down about 4% including commissions, but have learned a lot for my $400 loss). My (rather broad) question is this: Do all of the e-mini losses somehow have to equal all of the...

You might be right. I guess I'll find out within a couple of weeks whether I can get a loan at all. What I was talking about is probably a bad (risky) idea for a small fry anyway, but I'm still interested in interest rate futures. There doesn't seem to be a lot of discussion of interest rate...