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I hold these trades usually overnight or a few days and trade at EOD. All comments welcome. Today, near EOD I short IYR at 41.68, long AUD at 8356 I'm concerned about the IYR short, its like standing in front of a frieght train.

It's not possible to simply trade the contracts independantly [not on the spread combo]? IB ought to adjust the margins for the hedged spread. I used to trade like this with global futures/RCG.

Whats inspiring the US real estate market at the moment, its showing indecent haste, has there been remarkable news?

Hi, Trading stocks, IB has a 0.5c commission. This works out well for small transactions like a few hundred stocks, but when placing large orders, say 10000 stocks its very expensive. OTOH, I like their TWS for order execution. Its quick and simple to rapidly cancel and replace orders and...

thank you for the leads, I have a 200 day correlation with oil futures of: oil 0.8 oih 0.88 iye 0.83 the others were way less

EFTs like USO are not, they move down with oil but not up with oil and as a result are not too correlated. Are there any alternatives, any suggestions (apart from trading oil futures)?

Hi, Does anyone have experience with the cash balance when going short with IB? My cash balance flickers with every update. Of course, the total balance is expected to vary through the day, but why the cash holdings, (in the market value of the TWS accounts page). Why do they vary? If...

I checked the "Market Value" and yes there are positions left from currency trades but they in no way account for the fluctuation in Net Liquidation Value. I can't see what else there could be apart from stock value change and currency change. There ought to be a logical explanation or way of...

I just see in the Balances 1. Net Liquidation Value 2. Equity with Loan Value and 3. Cash It's broken into Total, Securities and Commodities. Do these incorporate the projection of cash post settlement? What is the difference between Net Liquidation Value and Equity with Loan Value ...

Hi, Is anyone aware of affect of T+3 settlement date on the IB accounts? Is the correct balance of the account not reflected until 3 days after the trade? Any help on this topic is appreciated.

Right. Do you trade pairs? (I notice the Markets Open is favourable for pair trading.) I read once "the Markets Open is set by amatuers and the close is set by the professionals", do you believe theres any truth in that?

Thats interesting, I noticed the afterhours market and it was mainly higher than the EOD. I find Yahoo usually correct, though this calls into question the validity of their backdata.

Yahoo seem to have the closing price for FXI as 35.75 yesterday. Yet I saw it close at 36.08 and elsewhere its reported at that price.

Does a rise in bond yields in these circumstances attract investment funds away from stocks, and lower the stock market? Is there anyway to gauge the likelyhood of this. Or, is the diversion of funds from stocks into bonds not really an issue (perhaps because bonds are not really more...

Thanks for pointing that out, I meant yields. Stocks and bond yields going up together actually is my question, I am sure they can and do go up together, I'm just wondering about circumstances when they do both rise together. It is that performance of various asset classes during the...

Regarding the question of inflation (say inventorys supply continue to drop and demand picks up and theres a lag and inflation develops), you'd expect bond yields to go up, but also stocks to go up as pricing power returns. What happens when both stocks and bonds yields go up, as you expect...

IB sorted the problem out OK, just had to tweak a couple of unexpected settings.

For the record, the Equis service I subscribed to is working fine for now. Will see how it goes.

I concede you are correct that equis is no good, it just keeps crashing and I haven't even started with it. Though I do not do ‘a little code’. Code might as well be written in Arabic for all I understand of it [I used t program Pascal in the 80s and that’s it for me]. I heard...