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I am looking into trading a short strangle strategy in FX and want trade 'securities', and not in futures or forex (for a specific personal reason). Does anybody trade these currency options (treated as options on securities) available on ISE? What has been your experience with liquidity, speed...

it's obvious why RSH is exciting to many retail investors. they see it as a lottery ticket. Currently trading at $1.40, been as high as $4.00 within the past year.

so which one should retail investors/traders be trading GOOG or GOOGL? they both appear to have similar daily volume.

a real time data vendor such as kinetick might be better than relying on IB data

64 bit install of office is the way to go. Excel runs an order of magnitude faster and does not crash anymore.

On Interactive Brokers "Activity Statement" there is the NAV which I think is the same thing as Net Liquidation Value. Is that correct? A rep said that the Net Liquidation Value on my TWS screen does not tie into anything on my statement - but I am skeptical based on their inconsistent...

I just saw a disclosure doc where a CTA formed an incubator fund and ran it with his own assets for the first year. In year 2 his own assets made up more than 50% of the fund. Year 3 and later clients assets made up the majority of the fund. He had to leave off the fund's track record for year 1...

Jeff, Thanks for sharing information about your strategy. But the question that comes to mind (and I'm sure you've been asked this before) is how is your strategy any different from a very leveraged version of trading the SPY ETF long/short? Maybe you're exploiting the way the ATM premium...

I'm playing around with my 2 week trial version and was hoping somebody could shed some light. I'm trying to do a hypothetical forward test over the past year for SPY options using Backtrader. -First I update all asset file data, including SPY. -Then I go into BackTrader and set the...

Just wondering about executing the option credit spreads. When you guys initiate the trade do you use market orders for 2 legs or wait for a limit order to be filled on the spread (one commission versus 2)?

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Looks like there's been no activity in this thread for a while but here's my question. What really is the benefit of trading your strategy in an incubator fund? I know that once you're ready to take on clients it is a means of showing verifiable results, etc. But how is that different from...

Now that TOS is going away I am concerned about my trading spreadsheets, which I rely on every day. I have built a lot of spreadsheets and written a lot of VBA code using ThinkOrSwim's real time DDE feed both for futures and stocks. Does TD Ameritrade or any other broker offer real time...

I've never used any automated trading products before but I noticed Oanda is offering MT4 now. My question is how secure is it? Does the code sit on your local computer or can the broker or the makers of MT4 or anybody else see your code?

I know retail ECN is not in the same league as institutional stuff like hotspot. But are they misleading retail customers by claiming stuff like 'no dealing desk intervention', 'no markups on quotes', etc? How can they legally claim straight through if it's just another bucket shop model...

Both firms offer ECN forex trading. Just curious if anybody has compared spreads between the 2 brokers *ON THEIR ECN PLATFORMS*. By ECN I mean no-dealing desk / straight through processing platforms. Thanks.

I don't think there's any difference in cost between the 2 methods (reversing/netting versus manual close out+new initiation). In the first case you're buying 300,000 Euro in one shot. I will pay $30 for the spread assuming it's 1 pip wide, plus my broker charges commission of $30.00 per...

I am going to start trading an account using the Viking platform and I had a quick question. Let's say I have a position of short 100,000 Euros and I now I want to be long 200,000 Euros. Would I enter an order to Buy 300,000 Euros? I used to do this in the past at Oanda and the netting was...

Can FXCM see the contestant's code? And if I opened an account and designed an automated system, how would I protect my edge?