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I heard on the radio today that the market has priced in a 100% chance the fed will lower interest rates by 25 bp, and 20% chance the fed will lower by 50 bp. Where can I get price quotes on the short term interest rate futures and options that the fed will lower? I am wondering how much...

just a thought.. when you find a disparity in the price levels of a pair and you put on a trade (hedge, arbitrage, whatever), you must believe that the correlation will come back to its 'normal' state. that is, the disparity must have come about due to a temporary imbalance of some sort, and...

you care to mention what kind of payout, and what the size of the funds will be?

on quote.com livecharts the naz 100 e-mini is NQ01U.. 01 is the year, H = march, M = june, U = september, and Z = december. also, SP01U for S&P 500 futures, ND01U for nasdaq 100 futures, ES01U for S&P 500 e-mini. other vendors may use a format like SP01U\ or SPU01..

Looks like your example is legging in to writing a covered call. If you had written the calls when you purchased stock, you would be fine. It's just that the stock fell below 100 which brings you out of compliance with the initial margin requirement. If you held the stock til the next day...

I don't think you are missing anything.. The only advantage of trading stocks is that there is more selection -- i.e. you are stuck with a few index futures while daytraders can choose from hundreds of liquid stocks. IMHO, there are also more suckers playing stocks (read: easy money), while the...

It sounds like IB is doing it correctly.. the initial margin applies until the next trading day afaik. Imagine if they switched to the maintenance requirement right after you executed your trade.. that means you could buy more of the same stock immediately and basically circumvent the initial...

I use the cboe to look up option chains, and then the quote.com livecharts applet ($10/mo) to chart them.. the cboe doesnt seem to have the best bid/ask many times, and quote.com often doesnt have the correct option chains, but use them both and it's a pretty inexpensive combo. Both quote.com...

try this: http://world.altavista.com/ not perfect.. but maybe helpful

blackjack, here are a few practical points i thought of.. 1. stable stocks usually do not offer high premiums for selling calls.. i haven't looked into it for a while, but as i remember, you can expect <1% to maybe 3% for "safe" stocks. to get the higher premium you have to buy a volatile...

With 4:1 margin rather than 2:1 wouldnt the magic number now be 50k?

IMHO, simplify, simplify, simplify. Remove as many things as you can.. indicators, programs, trading rooms, strategies, etc. The less you have to focus on and digest, the better off you will be. Do one thing and do it well. You will know your system is optimized when there is nothing else...

It seems like it is supposed to give the MMs an opportunity to gap the stock to a more reasonable level given the news. If the stock had to trade to the new level, the MMs (who are forced to keep a bid/ask) would have to sell into rabid buying on the way up because everyone is buying (and no...

as far as i know, 1 option contract = 100 shares. if the stock splits, then so does the option.

The latest issue of Stocks & Commodities has a pretty good article on the chance of total wipeout.. I checked their site and here is the intro (first few paragaphs): http://www.traders.com/Documentation/FEEDbk_docs/Abstracts_new/vonRonik/vonRonik.html It gets better than that though.. I think...

I have wanted to do this for several years, but never got around to looking into the laws.. I hope to see some useful responses in this thread. Anyway, I think you can just get a power of attorney for their trading account. If you are talking about them giving you money to trade, then yes you...

There are several online brokers that allow spread orders now (mr stock, optionsxpress).. I would think that could put a large strain on floor brokers if they had to give quotes all the time. It looks like mr stock just takes the bid of one side and the ask on the other (available...

Is there any kind of order book for spreads? or does the floor broker just quote a price he feels warm and fuzzy about?

Firstly, I assume that you won't see a new bid/ask placed in the market when you enter a spread order, because you have a limit for the whole order and not for each leg. So, are spread orders posted somewhere? Does a floor trader just keep the order written down until he can fill it? How does...

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