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Just to refresh this thread... Very interested in learning more about marketcetera. Is the original restriction that only US equities are supported still valid? A marketcetera employee on the previous page mentioned hedge funds were adding their own support for futures as an asset...

Did you get far enough in the demo to see the multi-broker trade support (splitting a single spread trade into multiple brokers)...? I had a floor broker recommend it to me, even at $1k/month he swears by it.

You guys are a bunch of wet blankets! What can I say, I just feel off the turnip truck. I'm just a lowly retail trader, so my only point of comparison are tools from TOS, excel-based sheets, and OptionVue. Compared to all of those tools, the quick portfolio/position wide greeks + risk...

Now this is a serious tool: http://76.12.104.55/1.FindingBasicInformationontheSheet1.html Wow.

NYBOT is the action where the softs are. NYMEX volume for the softs is basically 0. NYMEX introduced the soft contracts only a few years ago, and it's not catching on.

Do you have access to an option calculator...? Many option brokers provide one. I use this sometimes: http://www.hoadley.net/options/optiongraphs.aspx? If you plug in volatility of 57% (which is what the current implied volatility of TWM options are trading at), and if you plug in days...

Hi, Just wondering what experiences others have had with risk managers at futures/commodities firms. I'm primarily selling volatility in the ags.. in other words, I'm short numerous options, which as everyone knows means I have "unlimited risk" (gasp!). I have PC-SPAN for monitoring my...

Your chart shows a final stock price of $28.03. If TWM moves 20% in the next 3 weeks, then absolutely, your long volatility position will be profitable.

No offense, but it's clear to me you haven't gone very far with this strategy. I doubt you've actually paper-traded it, to this point. It simply will not work the way *you* think it does. Paper-trade it, and you'll see the dilemma. If your robot buys the underlying before break-even point...

If you have a robot that could actually figure out that "there is a price reversal" before it happens, you would already be very rich... you don't need to do ANYTHING except trade the price reversal. But unfortunately, such robots do not, can not exist. Maybe Goldman Sachs has spent a few...

No, it doesn't. 1) If your robot is buying any shares at the oscillations (before break-even), then you're extending the range you have to go out above $5 before you reach break-even on the option position. 2) If you, for example, started your strategy on June 1st... and assuming your...

And what happens if the price never oscillates far away from the strike, thus denying you the ability to enter your position at prices that are "very far" from the strike? This is what someone meant above, when they said you were long vol. You are long volatility. No one is foolish enough...

Sarcasm aside, this really *is* gamma-scalping, a potentially profitable strategy. You'll profit if the underlying moves enough, and you'll lose (from theta burn) if the underly doesn't.

Like I said, ask/bid size is always pretty small. But in terms of volume, my chart shows roughly 3000 contracts of the KCU9 trading so far this morning. That's a lil light, but that's what you're going to get with coffee.

On the future, you mean? The spread can get pretty wide early on, definitely a lot of the volume doesn't come in until the morning. The size on the ask/bid is always pretty small, though.

FWIW, when I submitted a ticket in TWS asking that question... I was basically told it's not possible. If you find a different answer, would really like to know.

I think it's very likely the options are available. All of the soft options are available on every other electronic platform I've looked at. But it's probably not going to be useful for you. My experience is that electronic liquidity is basically nil, and there are never any ask/bids. I've...

I believe the hours listed in the left most column here is correct: https://www.theice.com/productguide/ProductDetails.shtml?specId=15 Please note that several of the softs have had trading hours adjusted this year, for reasons I don't understand. (I know KC/CT have, at least.) I have...

I disagree with asiaprop on only one point: that it's never a good idea to add to losers. There are scenarios where it makes sense. Chan was just talking about this on his blog, actually... his principal of latest information. http://epchan.blogspot.com/ If you're trading a mean...

You're not doing anything criminal or illegal, and certainly not immoral. But without a better understand of statistics, you are setting yourself up for catastrophic failure. (I see you've "lost all of your capital" multiple times, so perhaps that level of failure isn't that catastrophic for...