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Another quick question: Margin on a covered call. Does the short call change the margin required, lessen it presumably?

Maybe I am doing this wrong, but it does not give me margin for the position, it gives me margin impact on the account of a position, which means I have to go find my account balance and then subtract the impact amount to get how much margin I am using for a certain position. Am I wrong? And I...

Thanks, guys. Btw, when do the contracts for F and FO contracts December start? I have nothing on my screen for them right now. Oh one other questions, let's say I buy the Sept futures and write a Sept ATM call. The call expires Aug. 14th. How can I hedge (with a call) by Sept futures for the...

Sorry to sound obtuse, but the accounts page just has margin for all my positions combined. If I have a variety of options, futures and FX positions, how can I find out how much each position is using in margin?

Well, like no change at 11:30 a.m. still only a handful of contracts bid and ask, like 1 and 35 and fluctuating between 1 and 1. Is this the way it is for coffee on IB and NYBOT? I mean this is a joke of a volume.

Or even on the account page anywhere? IF so, how do Is et it up?

Ok, its a bit after 3:30 a.m. ET and the volume on September KC on IB using NYBOT (which I assume is ICE) is like 1 contract bidding and 7 asking and a spread of like a third of a cent. Is the volume low because it is the pre-open-outcry electronic trading session and things will pick up around...

Will do. I just submitted a ticket, incidentally. I have to admit it is getting frustrating FOs trading electronically. It's great that brokers like IB offer access, but it is pretty academic when there is no volume to speak of, and you are forced to open-outcry. Lots of FOs like this...

Any IB traders know if or how I can get pit orders filled electronically. RFQ?

Thanks. Anyone know if the options are available on IB's platform?

I looked at the ICE hours for electronically traded coffee futures and it appears there is a Sunday night session that starts at 6 ends at 11:59 and trading doesn't start up again until 9 a.m. US time. Do I have that right? I also see sessions that start at 3:30 a.m. (EST) Which is correct...

Anyone have any thoughts on coffee? Base forming? Run into the 50s again anytime soon?

Real and rand. Not just the majors. Any exist?

IB is my broker and the only futures are electronically traded, which limits me. If I am wrong, somebody let me know.

lol. I agree I read that post and wondered if the guy who posted it realized that he had just defeated his own argument. Greenspan and Mellon were that far apart in many ways.

Ok, I read the credit link and the other comments you posted about bailing out MER, and I still don't see how letting BOA break off the MER sale 1) relates and 2) is any different than, say, letting LEH go under. The idea that the world will collapse if MER wasn't bailed out by BOA, which in...

It's been a whole multi-headed mess from the get-go, Paulson Bernanke and Geitner all scared Congress and the rest of the country into doing shit that no one understood, just to save everyone's political ass and Wall Street. They could give a flying fuck about Main Street, trust me. Now, the...

Somebody will be lying (or have a very warped idea of the powers stemming from the Federal Reserve Act and the executive branch.) I really do think that someone's head will roll here. If I was a BOA shareholder, I would, at a minimum, personally sue Bernanke and Paulson and attach liens on their...

You got it, sport. COngress and the Fed and the WH are banking on, pardon the pun, the gullibility and ignorance of Americans about these issues.

Dude, the guy you cite admitted to unsound practices. Did BOA do this? Shit yeah, if some guy is a crook or the bank is insolvent the Fed can and should act. But BOA was neither.