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In my a/c this morning overnight available funds were 36% of my capital with IB. This afternoon this has been reduced to 31%. During the day I have not done a single trade. I have got one short position in Z at 5950 (Index at close 6446) which is 496 points out of the money and expires this...

IB is increasing margin requirement every day. My all positions are going to expire on this friday. It seems IB is not considerind decay of time value premium. No body has any idea why IB is doing this?I have stopped any further trades because of these increments everyday. It seems no body is...

Thanks so much for your input. Yes I realise it is foolish for me to think there is some magic no. for volume bar. Nothing fixed can work everyday. Mind ignores some obvious things.

Dax has about twice the volume of Z . I have tried 100 for Z but that is too fast in my opinion. I will try 200 and see how I go. Thanks

I am paper trading Z (FTSE100) and I am trying to arrive at optimum size of volume bar. Some help appreciated. Total volume today is about 130k. Can you decide size of bars based on daily total volume? Or is it just experimenting taking various sizes. Help appreciate. Thanks

The overnight margin requirements for shorting some of these options listed on CME have been increased by over 150% within the past 16 days. I am trading Z (FTSE100) only which is on LIFFE exchange. Should I be affected?

I am getting e mails from IB everyday about this There has been 93 views and not a single reply. Please help why IB is doing this I donot understand some portion of the contents as well Thanks

I have received following e mail from IB. I cant clearly understand and why are they doing this. Comments much appreciated Change in Margin for Short Out-of-the-Money Equity Index Future Options Please note that, at 12:00 ET today, in addition to the exchange-mandated margin calculations...

Thanks so much for your encouraging post Unfortunately I am 77 and I havnt got all the time so I am trying to rush to make some money.

Thanks Anek First thing you are very bright. My screen time is 5 hrs per day for last 3 years = 5475 hrs.

JJ I am losing my heart. I will never be able to get this expertise Note: (1) There is no future perse (at least looking at experience from this level of conciousness), there is always the present. As you change your conciousness and develop the ability to perceive trades as they are...

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What time frame volume bar is the chart based on. I donot get so many bars

JJ d) review the charts every weekend for at least oh, 10 hours, and preferably, 20 hours for the entire weekend. This is too much to do. Where is the KISS principle?

Has there been any comments to the above observation. I get trapped all the time.

Does QT support opentick. Looks like not. Any free charting software supporting opentick? Thanks

We had a bottle of wine to celebrate today.

There are good replies here. Thanks What about options on futures indexes? I find margin requirement for index options is very high compared to optioms on futures. Margin consideration could be important as well.

Thanks Anek You are a great Ajahn (buddhist word for a compassionate teacher). I had given up and I thought I will never be able to trade futures. You have given me a new hope. I have got Suri book as well and I am studying and practicing paper trading. I hope I will make some...

Thanks so much GT.